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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Amazon fined in France for excessively monitoring warehouse employees
France’s data protection agency announced today that it has fined Amazon.com Inc.’s French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($35 million) for using an “excessively intrusive” surveillance system to keep track of workers. The French Data Protection Authority, or CNIL, said the systems …
New Hampshire Democrats received AI-generated robocall from Joe Biden telling them not to vote
Concerns over the weaponization of generative artificial intelligence are again at the fore after Democrats in New Hampshire over the weekend received faked robocalls from President Joe Biden telling them not to bother voting in Tuesday’s primary election, according to the state …
Japanese IT firm says it has a ‘moral duty’ to compensate those hurt in Britain’s Post Office scandal
In what’s now being called one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history, the Japanese information technology services company Fujitsu Ltd. said on Tuesday that it has a “moral responsibility” to compensate the many victims. Between 1999 and 2015, about …
A loss for Epic, costly for Apple: Supreme Court refuses to review antitrust case
The Supreme Court today rebuffed a request to hear an antitrust dispute between Apple Inc. and “Fortnite” publisher Epic Games Ltd. In 2020, Epic filed a lawsuit against Apple for what it said was anticompetitive behavior. At the same time, the company …
IMF: AI will affect 40% of jobs and could worsen inequality
Artificial intelligence is set to disrupt 40% of all jobs, according to a new analysis by the International Monetary Fund. In the 42-page report released Sunday, “Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work,” the IMF talked about the “new industrial revolution.” The …
AI-powered misinformation is the biggest short-term threat to the global economy, says WEF
The World Economic Forum has put AI-powered misinformation and disinformation ahead of climate change, war and economic weakness in its “Global Risks Report 2024” released today. Over 60 countries home to half the planet’s population will hold national elections in 2024, with …