Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies
and won't — change health care Katyanna Quach / The Register : Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman Andrea Rizzi / El País : Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta: ‘Human-...
How deepfake porn victims in NYC suburb Levittown helped convict the perpetrator, a former classmate, an ordeal further complicated by the lack of clear US laws
A group of young women in a New York City suburb, horrified to learn their photographs had been manipulated and posted online, took matters into their own hands. Bluesky: @leahnylen.bsky.social . X: @...
Researchers say hate speech and misinformation on Twitter are up; CEO Linda Yaccarino says that's “incorrect” and touts improvements, like ad placement controls
Coupled with $13 billion of debt, the company is in more than a shaky position. … Twitter: @twitterbusiness : To our partners, we want to address a recent Bloomberg article which claims that harmful c...
An investigation into Papa, a TaskRabbit-like service for seniors that has raised $240M, finds dozens of allegations of harassment, assault, theft, and more
If you've been to an annual open enrollment fair in the past few years, you may have noticed a new eldercare benefit with the unusual name of Papa. Tweets: @priyasideas , @vandermey , @bradstone , @bi...
Character.AI, recently valued at $1B, will likely face legal battles for brazenly letting users make and share chatbots of famous people or fictional characters
Brad Stone / Bloomberg : Tweets: @martinsfp and @bradstone Tweets: @martinsfp : Why didn't they cut deals with IP holders? If the answer is ‘the tech is currently too risky’ then why let users sully ...
Sources: Swiss company Mitto, which offers text message services to companies, tells clients co-founder Ilja Gorelik has departed after surveillance accusations
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @rj_gallagher , @tsgiles , and @bradstone Tweets: Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : “The lack of regulation & accountability has brought unnecessary privacy & secu...
Sources: Colonial paid ~$5M ransom in cryptocurrency within hours of the attack, but the hackers' decrypting tool was so slow that it had to use its own backups
this should significantly escalate the political pressure to finally counter the ransomware ecosystem https://www.bloomberg.com/... Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet : Maybe it was a four hundred pound eigh...
Jeff Bezos beat the National Enquirer by bypassing media and appealing directly to regular people, retaliating with the brutal efficiency used to build Amazon
Brad Stone / Bloomberg : Tweets: @bradstone , @ashleevance , @jackposobiec , @nkulw , @stevekopack , @ritholtz , @gregotto , @tomgara , @benyt , @jbarro , and @bradstone Tweets: Brad Stone / @bradsto...
Some Black medical professionals who are voluntarily countering misinfo on Clubhouse about COVID-19 and its vaccine say they have been harassed and bullied
- Conspiracies flourish on app including about vaccines and 5G — 'Hey, I was skeptical too, but here's where I am now' Tweets: @mattyglesias , @williamturton , @williamturton , @ericgeller , @jilli...
Profile of PE firm Francisco Partners, whose portfolio includes companies like Sandvine and NSO Group, which have both pursued deals with authoritarian regimes
Don Bowman, co-founder of Sandvine Inc., was always aware of the risks his company's products posed. Tweets: @jshilad , @gwbstr , @techwontsaveus , @bradstone , @aaschapiro , @elinor_carmi , @bw , @na...