Category Archives: Business

Xavier Niel, a Driving Force of French AI, Is Now Shaping TikTok

The TikTok owner’s newest board member revels in challenging the establishment.

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Big Tech’s New Adversaries in Europe

For the past five years, Big Tech has faced a flurry of new rules and reprimands from Brussels. Now with a new team taking over the European Commission, relations may be entering a new era.

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Online Casino Workers Went on Hunger Strike Over Working Conditions

Protests against online gaming company Evolution have gone to extremes in Europe—and are reverberating in the US.

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Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules

A group that includes sex workers, sex tech businesses, and sex educators has demanded a seat at the table to shape AI regulations that they say could lead to discrimination against them.

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The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change

A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI.

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Palmer Luckey Is Bringing Anduril Smarts to Microsoft’s Military Headset

The founder of Oculus VR is returning to headsets—this time for the battlefield.

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I Stared Into the AI Void With the SocialAI App

SocialAI is an online universe where everyone you interact with is a bot—for better or worse.

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An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts

Google plans to add an AI feature next year inside of the YouTube app for creators to generate 6-second clips using the company’s Veo model.

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Most US Teens Use Generative AI. Most of Their Parents Don’t Know

A news survey shows that AI use among high schoolers has exploded in recent months, as educators and parents struggle to keep up.

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OpenAI Threatens to Ban Users Who Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models

If you try to figure out how OpenAI’s o1 models solve problems, you might get a nastygram.

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