On the morning of Oct. 1, 2015, a middle-aged telemarketer arrived at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Federal Trade Commission. His name was Aaron Michael Jones, or possibly Michael Aaron ...

Rep. Michael Grimm’s support of the GOP’s controversial spending bill has left the Marine and former FBI agent with a big target on his back. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee began a ...

Robo-signing is back. The kind of fraudulent activity that banks and loan servicers used to facilitate foreclosure actions is now taking place in cases involving credit card debt, according to federal ...

Florida will get an $8.6 million share of a national settlement with a loan-processing company over so-called "robo-signing" and other improper mortgage foreclosure practices. Attorney General Pam ...

The San Francisco Bay Area is a hot house for the so-called “robo-advisor” industry. These are the firms that offer to manage money at a fraction of what investors would pay if they hire individual ...

French inventor Frank Zapata grabbed headlines around the world this summer when he flew his hoverboard across the English channel from Pas de Calais, France, to the famous white cliffs of Dover. But ...

Michael Katchen hit $1-billion in assets, and the bombast started to flow. Speaking at a Toronto startup conference in 2017, the chief executive officer of upstart online investment provider ...

In one of its two first enforcement actions against automated-investment firms, the Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Wealthfront Advisers of Redwood City with false advertising and ...

More Bay Area teachers are using so-called “robo-readers” to grade assignments, such as essays. While it saves time, some educators worry the technology could hurt learning. Da Lin reports. (5/19/14) ...

(KRON) — An East Bay elected official has introduced a bill to require human oversight in the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace. Senate Bill 7, known as the “No Robo Bosses Act,” was ...