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Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companies When Meta , the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sought to defend itself in the landmark social media addiction lawsuit alleging its products caused personal injury to a young user, it went on the offensive. The mental health problems that the 20-year-old known as KGM suffered since she was a child were not the result of exposure to harm on Instagram, Meta's...
US release of horror novel Shy Girl cancelled and UK book discontinued after suspected AI use, as publishers feel cold shiver' Recently, the literary agent Kate Nash started noticing that the submission letters she was receiving from authors were becoming more thorough albeit also more formulaic. "I took it as a rise in diligence," she said. "I thought it was a good thing." Continue reading...
An Irish town is making a name for itself over an experiment that's been running for three years now: Giving kids a largely smartphone-free childhood. The New York Times checks in on Greystones, a coastal community south of Dublin, that has rallied behind a voluntary pledge not to buy smart...
For months, the UK has felt like it's barrelling towards banning under-16s from social media.
NPR - 1 day 10 hours agoTwo landmark verdicts this week could reshape the way social media works. Aza Raskin, a co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, explains the implications of the courts' decisions.
Every co-founder Elon Musk recruited to build xAI has now reportedly left the company. Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, told people this month that he was departing. Ross Nordeen, described by Business Insider as Musk's "right-hand operator," left on Friday. They were the last two of eleven co-founders, all of whom have exited […] This story continues at The Next Web...
Meta is preparing to launch two new Ray-Ban smart glasses models designed specifically for prescription wearers, according to a Bloomberg report published on Thursday. The models, codenamed Scriber and Blazer, were first spotted in Federal Communications Commission filings and are expected to reach consumers as early as next week. They do not represent a new […] This story continues at The Next Web...
The assignment involves no laptop, no chatbot, and no technology of any kind. In fact, there's no pen or paper, either. Instead, students in Chris Schaffer's biomedical engineering class at Cornell University have to speak directly to an instructor in what he calls an "oral defense." A growing number of...
Editors can still use AI in limited ways, such as translating articles from other languages or suggesting minor copy edits.
"Attention" is the first word, and it comes in Persian three times before a male voice launches into hours of measured, seemingly random numbers. The transmission, on shortwave radio, has aired twice daily since the US-Israel strikes on Iran began on Feb. 28, reports Wired , citing the group Priyom, which...
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What the feud reveals, underneath all the posturing, is that Newsom and Musk were never really allies.
Vox - 1 day 21 hours agoOpenAI announced plans to invest substantial amounts of money in AI-related causes this year through its nonprofit, increasing its philanthropic efforts months after restructuring with a new for-profit arm. | Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto/Getty Images Big changes are happening at OpenAI. On Wednesday, the company announced that it would be shutting down their AI video creation app Sora only a couple months after its launch. In October, OpenAI completed a massive restructure of its organization that...
Meta and Alphabet, the parent company of YouTube, saw their stock price drop this week after a jury found the companies liable for the design and operations of their platforms, harming a young user.
Civil juries in Los Angeles County and Santa Fe, N.M., recently found that social media companies were responsible for harms their products caused to children. The bellwether cases could now open the floodgates for a deluge of similar lawsuits.
Pregnant women and cancer patients could face “life-threatening” delays because of a worsening shortage of sonographers, experts warn.
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