Parents and US lawmakers are debating whether social media has fueled a teen suicide crisis, as mental health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans
Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers. Bluesky: @madelinevo.bsky.social and @caseyjohnston.bsky.soc...
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...
Google strikes a deal with Reddit, reportedly for $60M/year, gaining Reddit Data API access to surface more Reddit content in Search and to train its AI models
what you need to know Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap : Reddit Inks $60 Million-a-Year Deal To Train Google AI Ahead of Expected IPO | Report Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : No Joke: Google ...
Sources: in 2019, Paul Graham flew from the UK to San Francisco to fire his protégé Sam Altman from YC, worried that Altman put his interests ahead of YC
Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator … X: @cher0x801 , @bigmeaninternet , @deljohnsonvc , @josh_wills , @itsurboyevan , @itsurboyevan...
Framing AI debates as a schism between people worried about AI going rogue and those illuminating actual harms is ahistorical and obscures important research
In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot … Bluesky: @abeba.bsky.social , @mmitchell.bsky.social , and @emilymben...
Some people are using AI chatbots as a supplement to, or in lieu of, traditional mental health services, despite the privacy implications and experts' warnings
Some users see it as a way to supplement traditional mental health services, despite troubling privacy implications. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @rachelmetz Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : IDK, GPT-4 ...
The US NLRB says Apple executive comments and policies for staff violate workers' rights, after ex-employees Ashley Gjøvik and Cher Scarlett filed cases in 2021
including from Tim Cook and Dierdre O'Brien—and rules around employee surveys and speaking out. Today I was notified that the NLRB's division of advice found merit in those charges and recommended iss...
Leaked video: Apple SVP of Retail + People Deirdre O'Brien tells employees that joining a union would make it harder for Apple to improve working conditions
Starbucks, Apple — and are considered to be progressive turn into full on Republicans the moment there's a chance those workers might get some leverage to influence their working conditions. @infrophe...
IT and software developer Globant says its code repo was partially breached, after Lapsus$ shared 70GB of allegedly stolen data; Globant's stock closed down 10%
The Lapsus$ data extortionists are back from a week-long … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Lapsus$ extortion gang claims to have hacked IT Giant Globant Dora Tudor / Heimdal Security Blog : IT...