Category Archives: Business

Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading

Starting Friday, dockworkers in all Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points as the labor dispute rages on.

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Parental Advisory: This Chatbot May Talk to Your Child About Sex and Alcohol

Common Sense Media’s first ratings for chatbots and other AI services warn parents that AI image generators and Snapchat’s My AI chatbot may not be safe for kids.

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YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators

YouTube creators will get to test a new AI tool that generates and remixes music in the style of several famous musicians, including Sia, Demi Lovato, and T-Pain.

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Norway’s Privacy Battle With Meta Is Just Getting Started

The Norwegian data regulator has already fined Meta $7 million. Now it says it’s investigating the company’s new ad-free subscription services.

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A Watchdog Group Calls for an Investigation of X’s Sneaky New Ads

Industry watchdog Check My Ads is petitioning the Federal Trade Commission to investigate X for unlabeled—and potentially misleading—advertisements.

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Underage Workers Are Training AI

Companies that provide Big Tech with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring young teens to work on their platforms, often exposing them to traumatic content.

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The Government Is Now the Hottest Tech Employer in Town

Meta, Google, Amazon, and other major tech firms have laid off thousands of people. The public sector has tried—and in some cases, succeeded—to lure them in.

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Social Media Sleuths, Armed With AI, Are Identifying Dead Bodies

Poverty, fentanyl, and lack of public funding mean morgues are overloaded with unidentified bodies. TikTok and Facebook pages are filling the gap—with AI proving a powerful and controversial new tool.

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Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard

Machine learning algorithms that digested decades of weather data were able to forecast 90 percent of atmospheric measures more accurately than Europe’s top weather center.

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The US Wants China to Start Talking About AI Weapons

As the US and China meet for the APEC summit in San Francisco this week, American officials are pushing for talks on the risks posed by military use of AI.

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