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UK passes Online Safety Bill, vows to tame the ‘Wild West’ of online communications
The British government today passed the controversial and groundbreaking Online Safety Bill after the legislation received the green light in what was the final parliamentary debate on the matter. The bill consists of around 300 pages of sweeping legislation that the U.K. says will make the country “the safest place in the world to be ...
Elon Musk says X users soon may have to pay a subscription fee to use the platform
Elon Musk today said today he’s considering making X Corp., the social network formerly known as Twitter Inc., a subscription-based platform for all users, albeit at low cost. He issued those words in a livestreamed conversation with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (pictured). The conversation turned to artificial intelligence and the future of AI, ...
Supreme Court pauses lower-court order restricting Biden administration’s contact with social media firms
The U.S. Supreme Court today put a temporary block on a lower court order that limited the Biden administration’s contact with social media companies. The original order was put in place to prevent the administration from applying pressure on such companies to moderate what it considered possible misinformation. It had earlier been discovered that the ...
As France warns Apple it might have to recall the iPhone 12, Apple tries to dampen radiation fears
The French watchdog Agence Nationale des Fréquences told Apple Inc. Tuesday that it has to halt sales of its iPhone 12 in France over fears the device emits dangerous levels of radiation. ANFR, as it’s known for short, told Apple that if the phones are not fixed via a software update, every iPhone 12 will ...
Microsoft suspects China is now using AI in disinformation campaigns to sway US voters
In a report published today by Microsoft Corp.’s Threat Analysis Center, analysts warned that Chinese operatives may now be using images created by artificial intelligence to provoke division inside the U.S. in the run-up to the 2024 U.S. election. The report’s focus was on possible threats from all of East Asia, but China is the ...
Flexport CEO Dave Clark steps down after just one year in charge
Logistics startup Flexport Inc. Chief Executive Dave Clark today announced that he’s resigning from the company after just one year as the boss. Clark joined Flexport after serving Amazon.com Inc. for a period of 23 years, helping the e-commerce giant build its massive logistics network. He joined Amazon back in 1999 as an operations manager, ...
FTC antitrust lawsuit against Amazon will likely come later this month after talks break down
The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly going ahead with an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc. after the company’s lawyers offered no concessions in recent talks with the regulator, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. The FTC’s probe into the e-commerce giant began during President Donald Trump’s administration, when the government initiated antitrust ...
Elon Musk says he might sue the Anti-Defamation League for … defamation
X Corp. boss Elon Musk today partly blamed the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, for his company’s steep decline in advertising revenue since he became boss of what was then Twitter Inc. The mercurial tech mogul (pictured) took to X today to air his views, something that quite often leads to headlines in the media. This ...
AI quadcopter autonomous drone in Switzerland leaves champion human racers in the dust
In what is being called a world first and another giant leap for artificial intelligence, an autonomous drone in Switzerland just outperformed the world’s best drone racers more than 25 separate races. The competition pitted the human champions in what were first-person view, or FPV, races in which the humans pilot high-speed aircraft through a ...
In what could be a landmark case, Open AI lawyers motion to dismiss authors’ copyright claims
Open AI LP, a firm currently raking in money from its ChatGPT large language model-based chatbots, has moved to dismiss the majority of the claims against it in lawsuits recently filed by authors who allege the company has breached copyright laws by using their work. The comedian and author Sarah Silverman, along with author Christopher ...