Author: Matt O’Brien
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Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects
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Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken down. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said such tracking puts Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at risk. But users and developers of the apps say…
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Attorneys general warn OpenAI and other tech companies to improve chatbot safety
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The attorneys general of California and Delaware on Friday warned OpenAI they have “serious concerns” about the safety of its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens. The two state officials, who have unique…
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Microsoft engineer sounds alarm on AI image-generator to US officials and company’s board
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A Microsoft engineer is sounding an alarm about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company’s artificial intelligence image-generator tool
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It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges
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After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research
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Do AI video-generators dream of San Pedro? Madonna among early adopters of AI’s next wave
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Making instant videos is the next wave of generative artificial intelligence, much like chatbots and image-generators before it
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Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming betrayal of its goal to benefit humanity
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Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits
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Microsoft’s Nadella woos Indian developers to the company’s AI tools
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged more than a thousand Indian computer code developers to use the company’s artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products
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Meta says it will label AI-generated images on Facebook and Instagram
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Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing made-by-AI labels on deepfake images that appear on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what’s real and not
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White House soft-launches COVID-19 test request website
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WASHINGTON • The Biden administration on Tuesday quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially go online. The website, COVIDTests.gov, now includes a link for Americans to access an order form run by the U.S. Postal Service. People can order four at-home…
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Facebook board upholds Trump ban, just not indefinitely
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WASHINGTON • Four months after Facebook suspended former President Donald Trump’s accounts, having concluded that he incited violence leading to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the company’s quasi-independent oversight board upheld the bans. But it told Facebook to specify how long they would last, saying that its “indefinite” ban on the former president was…