Sundar Pichai told a federal judge that the government’s solution to fix its monopoly in search would harm innovation.

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The Take It Down Act, which united a coalition of conservative and liberal lawmakers, criminalizes the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit images of others and requires companies to remove them.

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As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.