Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman
The lawsuits allege the companies are responsible for pushing the Robb Elementary shooter to acquire an AR-15-style weapon.
Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored
Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product. Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.
Apple Music's “100 Best Albums” list, based on votes from about 250 employees, artists, and industry executives, is eclectic, unpredictable, and controversial
Why did a trillion-dollar company make a music list that would make people lose their minds?
Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies”
Social media is abuzz with examples of Google's new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.
Instant messaging client ICQ will stop working from June 26, recommends users migrate to messaging platforms from parent company VK; ICQ had 100M users in 2001
ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.
An analysis of ChatGPT's answers to 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow: 52% of answers contain misinformation, 77% are more verbose than human answers
Not So Smart — In recent years, computer programmers have flocked to chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT to help them code …
Atari buys the Intellivision brand and the rights to 200+ Intellivision Entertainment games, and says the deal “ends the longest running console war in history”
For fans of old-school games, it's kind of like Coke acquiring Pepsi: Atari, which produced one of the first hit home game consoles …
Apple says that users' deleted photos that resurfaced after installing iOS 17.5 weren't synced to iCloud Photos and could have persisted after restoring backups
what you need to know MacDailyNews : This is why deleted iPhone photos returned to some iOS 17.5 users David Phelan / Forbes : iOS 17.5.1 iPhone Photos Bug: Apple Reveals What Happened Rajesh Pandey /...
The US SEC approves applications from Nasdaq, Cboe, and the NYSE to list spot ether ETFs, potentially paving the way for them to begin trading later in 2024
but consumers will have to wait to buy them Kelvin Munene Murithi / CoinGape : Breaking: US SEC Approves 8 Spot Ethereum ETF Oliver Dale / Blockonomi : The Wait Is Over: SEC Greenlights Spot Ethereum ...
Spotify tells customers that its Car Thing dashboard accessory will stop working on December 9, less than a year after it went on sale, without offering refunds
Suggests throwing it away. r/technews : Spotify will kill Car Thing units later this year, tells owners to throw them away r/gadgets : Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold
An overview of existing deals between news publishers and AI companies and the questions they raise regarding long-term costs, the selection process, and more
In the past few weeks, News Corp, the Financial Times and Dotdash Meredith became the latest news organizations to strike licensing deals …
Similarweb: Truth Social's average number of US monthly visits was just over 4M from May 2023 to April 2024, down 39%+ from the prior 12-month period
Nearly two-and-a-half years after its launch, Truth Social is struggling to hang onto its small U.S. user base, according to new data …
A look at the privacy and security concerns surrounding Microsoft's Recall, which will record everything users do in Windows for up to three months by default
a ‘privacy nightmare’? Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest : Hands on with Windows 11 Recall AI: Snappy performance, works without internet Iain Thomson / The Register : Was there no one at Microsoft who l...
A test of 11 WhatsApp-based fact-checking “tip lines” during elections in India finds long delays and inconsistencies in responses
Rest of World tested 11 leading WhatsApp-based chatbots that promise to help Indian voters identify misinformation.
Dell's stock rose 4.3% to close at $160.18 after reaching a record high on May 24 amid a rally in companies working on generative AI; DELL is up 114.17% in 2024
Shares of Dell Technologies (DELL.N) hit a record high on Friday amid a rally in companies working on generative artificial …
Microsoft's Bing, Copilot, and Copilot in Windows services are back online worldwide after an outage that began around 3 AM ET on May 23 and lasted 24+ hours
https://arstechnica.com/... X: @msft365status : We've completed the mitigations, and our telemetry has confirmed that all Copilot features are functioning as expected. More information can be found in...
How SLMs like Microsoft's Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without big compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive and private
Research at Microsoft shows it's possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts. X: @sergiomaldo . LinkedIn: Ian Mullane , Craig Scroggie...
A Delaware federal court overturns a jury's 2022 decision that Shopify owes $40M to Express Mobile for infringing patents related to website-building tools
Josh Scott / BetaKit :
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, “dorm room high jinks” of OpenAI's “edge lords”, and more
' I don't think we can have a conversation about disinformation without having a conversation about the role of massive homogenous platforms that have cannibalized … @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.h...
Private equity firm Hg agrees to buy AuditBoard, a risk and compliance cloud software provider for large businesses, in a deal valued at $3B+ including debt
Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg :
A look at the challenges facing AWS' new CEO Matt Garman as the cloud unit battles the perception that it's falling behind Microsoft and Google in AI rollouts
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
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