Technology

Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users’ location data, the bloc’s data privacy watchdog said Monday.This post was originally published on […]

Meta on Thursday moved to remove AI-generated videos targeting two women, including a British politician, after the tech giant’s Oversight Board blasted its “fundamentally inadequate” safeguards against proliferating deepfakes.This post was originally published on this […]

OpenAI committed “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” when it used millions of news articles to train its artificial intelligence models, The New York Times alleged in a court document unsealed Thursday.This post was originally […]

Anthropic is expected to beat rival OpenAI to the public markets with a blockbuster IPO later this year despite recent doomsday warnings, but questions remain about their business models and whether regulators should step in.This […]

A push for landmark U.S. cryptocurrency legislation collapsed on Tuesday after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to bridge months-old differences over ethics, banking and how the fast-growing industry should be regulated.This post was originally […]

Australia’s pipeline of huge data center projects has raised questions about how much energy and water these giant server farms will use.This post was originally published on this site

New research from Syracuse University argues that communities battling AI data centers should borrow directly from the playbook developed a decade ago to fight fracking. The findings, by Syracuse University Associate Teaching Professor and urban […]

Recently, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including his own, to slow down their work. Sam Altman and Elon Musk, heads of rivals OpenAI and xAI respectively, agreed.This post was […]

OpenAI will not go public this year, the company’s chief executive, Sam Altman, said in an interview released Saturday, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence.This post was originally published on this site

Meta’s Oversight Board asked the company not to replace fact-checking with Community Notes, according to a statement seen by AFP overnight Friday, after it said it was testing the crowdsourcing system in Latin America.This post […]