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TL;DR Social media did not create anger or dishonesty, but it gave those instincts an extraordinarily efficient distribution system. With global news trust at 37% and AI making fakes harder to spot, Booker Loud argues the question is no longer whether platforms influence us but what we choose to
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Microsoft will report Azure revenue in dollars each quarter for the first time, having grown it 42% to $29.42B in the June quarter under a new two-segment structure. The European Commission reached a preliminary position in June that Azure should be designated a gatekeeper, with a final decision expected
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New York City is imposing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for pupils from 2-K through eighth grade, removing student-facing AI software and companion chatbots for around 600,000 children. Norway banned generative AI in its primary schools in June, and the EU AI Act regulates AI used on pupils
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Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 and has not decided whether to publish its weights, though it still plans to release the weights for version 1.2. The AI Act exempts genuinely open-source general-purpose models from part of Article 53, but that exemption does not apply to models classified
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Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Channels with Peter
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Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Channels with Peter
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London’s first public robotaxi service is now live. Starting today, UK riders can hail a self-driving vehicle via the Uber app, through a partnership with autonomous driving company Wayve – though a safety operator will initially remain in the driver’s seat. At launch, the rides will take place aboard
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If you’re part of the growing majority of Americans who oppose AI data centers, the US government and Big Tech have a message for you: Get over it. The backlash against these massive AI server farms — notorious for guzzling energy and water — has been countered in recent days by
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AI and ML Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable A recent survey shows national security pros believe there’s a one in ten chance humans lose control of AI in the next decade, and few believe we’re
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Adding insult to injury A human ransomware crook used frontier AI models to breach an enterprise network in less than 10 hours, an intrusion Unit 42 says would normally take human operators around two weeks. The human attacker then told negotiators that they used frontier models and agentic attack frameworks
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ai and ml AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet) Google on Wednesday announced the release of Gemini 3.8 Flash in an attempt to reclaim its reputation as a top-tier model maker in the process. The company's commitment to the
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Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend If you see a mushroom in the forest and you're wondering if it's safe to eat or poisonous, don't ask an AI. Polish software engineer
