By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business (CNN) — Bill Gates sounds less worried than some other executives in Silicon Valley about the risks of artificial intelligence. In a blog post on Tuesday, the Microsoft co-founder outlined some of the biggest areas of concern with artificial intelligence, including the potential for spreading misinformation and displacing jobs.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Some of America’s largest tax-prep companies have spent years sharing Americans’ sensitive financial data with tech titans including Meta and Google in a potential violation of federal law — data that in some cases was misused for targeted advertising, according to a seven-month congressional investigation. The report highlights what
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent and violated copyright laws in order to train and develop its artificial intelligence products. The proposed class action suit against Google, its parent company Alphabet, and Google’s
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge will not block Microsoft (MSFT) from closing its $69 billion deal to acquire video game giant Activision Blizzard, a defeat for US regulators who had asked for a temporary injunction while legal challenges to the merger unfold. The decision not to grant the injunction by the
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke (CNN) — Disgraced former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes could be out of prison nearly two years earlier than expected, according to the projected release date posted by the Bureau of Prisons. Holmes reported to a Texas prison camp in late May after being sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Amazon Prime Day is back again, starting Tuesday. But a random couple of days in July does, indeed, feel a bit random. Here’s why Amazon made the seemingly nonsensical decision to throw what could be one of its biggest sales days into the middle of the summer.
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Foxconn says it is exiting an ambitious project to help build one of India’s first chip factories. The world’s largest contract electronics maker will “no longer move forward” with its $19.4 billion joint venture with Vedanta (VEDL), an Indian metals and energy conglomerate, in Asia’s third largest
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Meta has made cuts to its teams that tackle disinformation and coordinated troll and harassment campaigns on its platforms, people with direct knowledge of the situation told CNN, raising concerns ahead of the pivotal 2024 elections in the US and around the world. Several members of
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — The European Union on Monday gave final approval to an agreement with the US government that restores the ability for thousands of businesses to easily transfer the personal information of European citizens to servers located in the United States, and vice versa, in the face of surveillance concerns
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors are suing Meta and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, alleging the companies’ AI language models were trained on copyrighted materials from their books without their knowledge or consent. The pair of lawsuits against OpenAI and Facebook-parent Meta were filed in a San Francisco federal court on
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — One of Elon Musk’s least-favorite Twitter users is moving to Meta’s competing platform Threads. Jack Sweeney — the 20-year-old Florida college student who started the ElonJet Twitter account that used a bot to track the location of Musk’s private jet using publicly available data — started an
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Meta on Tuesday launched a highly anticipated “following feed” option in its Threads app as part of its latest batch of updates that could help the new social platform further chip away at Twitter’s position in the market. The option to see a reverse chronological feed
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — Twitter has weathered months, if not years, of mismanagement as well as mass layoffs, frequent service disruptions and an exodus of top advertisers, but the launch of a rival app from Meta could prove to be the final straw. Threads surpassed 100 million users this weekend, less than
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn (CNN) — When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October and began upending the platform, there weren’t many viable alternatives for frustrated users. Now, there may be too many. A growing number of services have launched or gained traction in recent months by appealing to users who are uncomfortable with Musk’s decisions
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — When Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo on Instagram of his family on July 4, two things stuck out: the billionaire CEO wore a striped souvenir cowboy hat, and the faces of his children were replaced with happy face emojis. Zuckerberg’s post was promptly criticized by some who saw
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This week, Lynne from the Humane Society of Central Oregon brings by Sweet, who is playful but also snuggles and purrs with the best of them.
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The Council on Aging of Central Oregon is hosting a concert of visiting young musicians for dining area seniors Friday at 11:30 a.m. at the Senior Services Center in Bend.
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Meet Taffeta, a 1-year-old calico kitty brought to Redmond’s BrightSide Animal Center after a good Samaritan found her with kittens under their porch.
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Chang and Anna Cooban, CNN Taipei/London (CNN) — China’s top financial regulators have fined Ant Group — the fintech firm founded by billionaire Jack Ma — about 7.1 billion yuan ($994 million) for breaking rules related to consumer protection and corporate governance. Ant Group had also broken rules relating to “business activities in
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Twitter is threatening Meta with a lawsuit after the blockbuster launch of Meta’s new Twitter rival, Threads — in perhaps the clearest sign yet that Twitter views the app as a competitive threat. On Wednesday, an attorney representing Twitter sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter that accused the
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