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Five secretaries of state are urging Elon Musk to fix an AI chatbot on the social media platform X, saying in a letter sent this week that it spread election misinformation. election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington told Musk that X’s AI chatbot, Grok, produced about state ballot deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. Alabama was also mentioned.

The Menlo Park, California-based company Meta says it will open an $800 million data center in Montgomery. The internet giant operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp.

The Ways and Means Education Committee in the Alabama has voted on a measure which would raise the sales tax on transactions on the internet. If passed by the full legislature and signed by Governor Kay Ivey, the online sales tax would more closely match the fees charged to conventional “brick and mortar” retailers.

U.S. officials say the FBI and its partners in Europe infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks, including financial institutions in Alabama and elsewhere.

Alabama lawmakers have advanced anti-pornography legislation that would require phones and tablets to automatically block sexually explicit content or pornography until the purchaser changes the device settings.

Most Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government should better regulate the biggest technology companies, particularly social media platforms.

Alabama’s junior U.S. Senator is one of four senators who want to prohibit all children under the age of 13 from using social media.

National Public Radio is quitting Twitter over the social media company's recent actions under owner Elon Musk to stamp it with labels that NPR says undermine its credibility. NPR said its organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because Twitter is falsely implying that it is not editorially independent.

All year long on Alabama Public Radio, we’ve been looking at rural health care. Advocates of rural health in Alabama say one of the biggest issues is…

Civil rights advocates are pursuing a complaint against the Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden.The complaint covers a wide range of…