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Meta will test a trending-topics feature on its Threads platform
Meta Platforms Inc. today announced that it will soon start testing a trending topics feature in the U.S. on its X competitor social network, Threads. “For those of you who have been calling for a trending feature, we’re rolling out a small test in the U.S. to help you find timely topics people are talking ...
Meta and TikTok cry foul over EU’s DSA enforcement fees
The social media companies Meta Platforms Inc. and ByteDance Ltd.-owned TikTok separately announced today that they will challenge in court the European Union’s demand for fees under its stringent content moderation law. Enforcing the Digital Services Act, or DSA, a law that aims to rein in what the EU considers the “Wild West” of the ...
Report: Apple is trying to meet the challenge of developing two foldable iPhones
While much of the buzz around Apple Inc.’s products is currently focused on the new mixed reality Vision Pro headset, according to reports today Apple has been quietly tinkering away with concepts for two foldable iPhones. According to The Information, two of the more exciting things happening inside Apple’s research lab are clamshell-style foldable iPhone ...
New Hampshire AG says Texas firm was behind AI-generated Joe Biden robocall
New Hampshire’s attorney general today named the alleged sources of a mysterious deepfake Joe Biden robocall last month that told Democrats in the state not to vote in the primary election, prompting more discussions on the regulation of artificial intelligence. Attorney General John Formella said the calls were traced to the telemarketing outfit Life Corp., ...
AI helps scholars decipher ancient scroll buried by Vesuvius eruption
A charred Roman scroll that was buried in the Vesuvius eruption in A.D. 79 has partly been decoded by a group of classical scholars thanks to a team of three young computer scientists working with artificial intelligence. The scroll is part of the Herculaneum Papyri, which includes about 1,800 scrolls that were discovered in the ...
Intel puts brakes on $20B chip plant project in Ohio
Intel Corp.’s $20 billion chip manufacturing project in Ohio reportedly will be delayed because of a lack of U.S. government grants and challenges in the market. It had been hoped that by 2025, the first two chipmaking facilities would be finished, but now it’s expected that the construction of the manufacturing plants won’t be ready ...
‘You have blood on your hands’: US senators blast social media leaders over child safety
The Senate Judiciary Committee today did not hold back in an hours-long hearing with five social media CEOs in what could amount to the introduction of online child safety laws in the U.S. The committee faced Meta Platforms Inc. founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg (pictured), X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino, TikTok Inc. Chief Executive ...
OpenAI introduces a new customized GPT feature
OpenAI will now allow paid users to choose from a number of specialized GPTs, or generative pretrained transformers, with each bringing a different personality and a unique level of performance to enhance the conversation. Users will access the standard ChatGPT interface from where they can use the “@” symbol and see a popup where there ...
Neuralink has implanted a brain chip in a human for the first time, according to Elon Musk
Neuralink Corp., Elon Musk’s U.S.-based neurotechnology company, implanted a chip in its first human subject over the weekend. “The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well,” Musk (pictured) tweeted today. “Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.” This is a milestone for the company, which hopes in the future that such ...
X criticized for being too slow to moderate pornographic AI-generated deepfakes of Taylor Swift
Pop star Taylor Swift is said to be “furious” after sexually explicit deepfake images and videos of her appeared en masse this week on the social media platform X Inc., formerly Twitter Inc. Synthetic prurient content developed by artificial intelligence is nothing new, but as AI sees vast improvements and the technologies become more widely ...