It is the political ghost in the car. Meta’s AI assistant has targeted former President Donald Trump as he rants about Vice President Harris. When asked, “Why should I vote for Donald Trump?” Mark Zuckerberg’s chatbot warned that the Republican nominee had been panned by critics as “male and selfish,” “crude and lazy” and that … Read more
Social media companies collect, share and process vast amounts of information about their users with little transparency or control, including how it is used by systems that incorporate artificial intelligence, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Thursday. The report analyzed how Meta Platforms, ByteDance’s TikTok, Amazon’s gaming platform Twitch and others manage … Read more
EU antitrust regulators warned Apple on Thursday to open up its heavily guarded software to rivals – or risk hefty fines. The European Commission has launched so-called specification procedures that will determine what Apple must do to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the tough new law aimed at tech giants abusing their market … Read more
Snapchat reserves the right to place photos of its users’ faces in ads as part of the terms of service for its My Selfie tool, which allows people and their friends to create AI-generated images that are trained on selfies theirs. “My Selfie is used to power generative AI, Cameos, and other Snapchat experiences that … Read more
Air Mail, the flagship news site founded by former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, is exploring a sale, according to a report. The outlet, which covers topics such as style and lifestyle, culture and news, hired boutique investment bank Raine Group to explore a sale after receiving interest from potential buyers, the New York Times … Read more
ABC’s “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir may have driven away some viewers after the Disney-owned network angered conservatives during last week’s presidential debate. Muir and co-moderator Linsey Davis fact-checked former President Trump five times without ever correcting Vice President Kamala Harris, prompting a host of conservatives to suggest the debate was unfair. Susan B. … Read more
Tech union workers at The New York Times have threatened to strike on Election Day over a bizarre list of demands that include pet leave, a four-day work week — and even a product ban. aromatics in rest rooms, according to a report. The Times Tech Guild’s list of demands during its two-year battle for … Read more
Meta said it has banned Kremlin-run state media Russia Today as well as other networks controlled by President Vladimir Putin’s regime because of “foreign interference activity”. Russian-based broadcasters and websites such as RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other related media will no longer be available to users of Meta’s social networks, including Facebook and Instagram. “After … Read more
TikTok faced pointed questions from a US appeals court on Monday as the company tries to block a law that would force China-based ByteDance to sell the video-sharing app by January 19 or face a ban total. A lawyer for TikTok argued before a three-judge panel that the law, signed by President Joe Biden in … Read more
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are teaming up to fight an Ohio company that wants them to pay for power grid upgrades that will be needed to support the Big Tech firms’ plans to install powered data centers intensive to power artificial intelligence technology. . American Electric Power Ohio, which serves cities such as Columbus … Read more