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Trump Media and Rumble sue Brazil Supreme Court justice in censorship row
Donald Trump’s media group and the video platform Rumble today filed a joint lawsuit against Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, accusing him of violating U.S. free speech protections. The suit, filed in a federal court in Tampa, Florida, came just hours after Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro was charged with attempting a coup after ...
South Korea pauses DeepSeek downloads over privacy concerns
South Korea’s personal data protection watchdog has announced that downloads of the popular Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek have been banned in the country. The Personal Information Protection Commission said the app was removed from the local version of Apple’s App Store and Google Play over the weekend. The officials said the app will remain ...
Major publishers launch copyright lawsuit against AI startup Cohere
Several major publishers are suing the Canadian artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc., alleging that the company engaged in “systematic copyright and trademark infringement,” the latest in a long line of copyright lawsuits publishers have launched against AI firms. “Without permission or compensation, Cohere uses scraped copies of our articles, through training, real-time use, and in ...
Report says companies ‘playing with fire’ as AI chatbots fail when trying to summarize news
Four of the major artificial intelligence chatbots presented “significant inaccuracies” when they summarized news stories, according to a report issued this week by the BBC. This comes a month after Apple Inc. suspended its news summarizing feature for the iPhone after it was revealed the feature was making substantial mistakes, effectively writing misinformation. “We are ...
Paris AI Summit: US, UK refuse to sign agreement on ‘safe’ and ‘inclusive’ AI as JD Vance sends warning
At the landmark AI Summit today in Paris, the U.S. and U.K. went against the general tenor of the meeting when both countries refused to sign a declaration on “inclusive and sustainable” artificial intelligence. Officials from the Trump administration expressed reservations about signing the agreement. It’s a communique aimed at ensuring countries develop AI that ...
Apple shares fall after China ponders mounting probe into App Store
Apple Inc. shares slid today after it was reported China’s watchdog will mount an antitrust investigation into the company’s App Store commissions. The probe, similar to those already carried out in the U.K. and the EU, will examine Apple’s practice of taking 30% of in-app purchase fees and blocking external payment services. Apple ran into a similar ...
Google quietly changes stance on using AI for weapons or surveillance
Google LLC has made a major change to its AI Principles, taking out the part where it used to say it wouldn’t use the technology for surveillance or weapons applications. The old policy, which the company first released in 2018, stated that it would not pursue any AI developments that were “likely to cause harm,” ...
Ontario cancels and un-cancels Starlink contract after tariffs concession
Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford today announced he was pausing retaliatory measures in response to U.S. tariffs after President Donald Trump agreed to delay the tariffs. Ford (pictured) had earlier said he would cancel a C$100m (US$68.5m) contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink, stating that he was “ripping up” the contract the province had with Trump’s “first ...
Meta back in the ‘tent’ after agreeing to settle Trump’s $25M censorship lawsuit
Meta Platforms Inc. today agreed to a $25 million settlement over the lawsuit President Donald Trump brought against the company in 2021 for suspending his accounts following the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Meta, which under its Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg recently seems to have charmed President Trump (pictured) back into his graces, at ...
Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace
President Donald Trump today signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the man who operated the notorious dark web drug marketplace, Silk Road. Ulbricht ran the Silk Road from 2011 until 2013 under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” That year he was arrested and in 2015 was sentenced to life without parole. The ...
