Julie Inman Grant’s order for Elon Musk’s company to take down tweets containing video of a Sydney stabbing has implications for tech platforms globally Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The legal battle between Australia’s online safety regulator and Elon Musk’s X is shaping up as the first …
Challenger to market leader OpenAI says it wants to ‘meet users where they are’ and become part of users’ everyday life OpenAI’s ChatGPT is facing serious competition, as the company’s rival Anthropic brings its Claude chatbot to iPhones. Anthropic, led by a group of former OpenAI staff who quit over differences with chief executive Sam …
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Symptoms include paranoia, anxiety and a compulsion to snoop on your neighbours. I’m not judging – I’ve had a brush with it myself One of my many guilty pleasures is lurking on my former home’s Facebook group. The New York apartment complex, which houses the population of a small town, is classified as a naturally …
With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebook’s founder famously ‘never tried to be cool’. Is his makeover just a distraction from what’s going on at Meta? A vibe shift is afoot in Silicon Valley. For aeons, the movers and shakers of the tech industry signalled that they were serious people working on serious …
Revenue at Amazon Web Services increases to $25bn as retail giant releases earnings report surpassing Wall Street expectations Amazon sales surged once again in the first quarter of 2024, the company announced on Tuesday – the latest in a series of robust earnings reports for the retail giant. The company attributed the boost to artificial …
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Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty and stepped down as CEO of the crypto trading company last year Changpeng Zhao, the former head of the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading company, was sentenced to four months in jail on Tuesday in a Seattle courtroom. Zhao pleaded guilty late last year to money-laundering violations and stepped down as CEO …
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Children should be banned from most social media until 18 amid attempts to ‘monetise’ them, says Macron-commissioned study Children should not be allowed to use smartphones until they are 13 and should be banned from accessing conventional social media such as TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat until they are 18, according to a report by experts …
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The Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and others file suit saying the tech companies ‘purloin millions’ of articles without permission A group of eight US newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbots. The …
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Action against Facebook owner comes amid deep concerns about how it is dealing with fake news EU to investigate Meta over misinformation before June polls Fears that Vladimir Putin is trying to fill the European parliament with more pro-Russia MEPs were behind the EU’s blunt message to the Silicon Valley owner of Facebook on Tuesday. …
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In 2021, the web felt dead because algorithms were driving people to act like robots. Now, the robots are posting like people • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here I know I’m real. And you, dear reader, know you’re real. But do you ever suspect that everyone …
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