By Clare Duffy, CNN Facebook users who had an active account at any point between May 2007 and December 2022 can now apply to receive a piece of parent company Meta’s $725 million settlement related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Meta in December agreed to the payment to settle a longstanding class action lawsuit accusing
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN One of the buzziest songs recently circulating on TikTok and climbing the Spotify charts featured the familiar voices of best-selling artists Drake and the Weeknd. But there’s a twist: Drake and The Weeknd appear to have had nothing to do with it. The viral track, “Heart on my Sleeve,” comes
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT could lead to a “turbocharging” of consumer harms including fraud and scams, and the US government has substantial authority to crack down on AI-driven consumer harms under existing law, members of the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday. Addressing House lawmakers, FTC chair Lina Khan said
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Korn Geoffrey Hinton, who has been called the ‘Godfather of AI,’ confirmed Monday that he left his role at Google last week to speak out about the “dangers” of the technology he helped to develop. Hinton’s pioneering work on neural networks shaped artificial intelligence systems powering many of today’s products. He worked
Continue ReadingCNN By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Universal Music Group — the music company representing superstars including Sting, The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande — has a new Goliath to contend with: artificial intelligence. The music group sent urgent letters in April to streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music, asking them to block artificial intelligence
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Universal Music Group — the music company representing superstars including Sting, The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande — has a new Goliath to contend with: artificial intelligence. The music group sent urgent letters in April to streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music, asking them to block artificial intelligence platforms
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is in India this week to open its first physical stores in the country, marking a milestone for the iPhone maker in the world’s second largest smartphone market. Cook was seen personally welcoming customers as employees cheered and clapped at the company’s new outlet in Mumbai, which
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN YouTube on Tuesday announced a series of changes to how it deals with content related to eating disorders. The platform has long removed content that glorifies or promotes eating disorders, and YouTube’s Community Guidelines will now also prohibit content that features behaviors such as purging after eating or extreme calorie counting
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Ramishah Maruf, CNN Elon Musk warned in a new interview that artificial intelligence could lead to “civilization destruction,” even as he remains deeply involved in the growth of AI through his many companies, including a rumored new venture. “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Kelly Shares of Google-parent Alphabet fell more than 3% in early trading Monday after a report sparked concerns that its core search engine could lose market share to AI-powered rivals, including Microsoft’s Bing. Last month, Google employees learned that Samsung was weighing making Bing the default search engine on its devices instead of
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised to look into reports that workers at the company’s factory in Shanghai have been subjected to “unfair” reductions in their performance-related pay. Social media posts published over the weekend by people who say they work at the factory — the company’s main export hub —
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN In the future, when teenagers want to sign up for an account on Facebook or Instagram, they may first need to ask their parent or guardian to give their consent to the social media companies. That, at least, is the vision emerging from a growing number of states introducing —
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Montana became the first US state on Friday to pass legislation banning TikTok on all personal devices, sending a bill to Gov. Greg Gianforte prohibiting TikTok from operating within state lines and barring app stores from offering TikTok for downloads. The legislation marks the furthest step yet by a state government
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN Montana became the first US state on Friday to pass legislation banning TikTok on all personal devices, sending a bill to Gov. Greg Gianforte prohibiting TikTok from operating within state lines and barring app stores from offering TikTok for downloads. The legislation marks the furthest step yet by a state
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Miracle, Anna-Maja Rappard, Rebekah Riess, Taylor Romine and Ramishah Maruf, CNN Nima Momeni, the man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee, appears to have gotten into an argument with Lee before his death, according to documents released by the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. A message from Momeni’s sister to Lee
Continue ReadingCNN, KGO By Veronica Miracle, Cheri Mossburg and Phil Gast, CNN Nima Momeni, the man accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco, intends to plead not guilty next week, his attorney said. Momeni was to be arraigned on a murder charge Tuesday but that was put off until May 2 after
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Flower and Paradise Afshar, CNN San Francisco Police have arrested Nima Momeni in connection to the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said during a news conference on Thursday. Scott described Momeni as a 38-year-old man from Emeryville, California. Scott said Momeni and Lee knew one
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Amazon wants investors to know it won’t be left behind in the latest Big Tech arms race over artificial intelligence. In a letter to shareholders Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company is “investing heavily” in large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, the same technology that underpins ChatGPT and
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Kelly Uber is funding a new program that aims to get electric bikes with dangerous non-certified lithium-ion batteries off New York City streets. The company said on Wednesday it will soon allow the thousands of New York City delivery workers who use e-bikes the ability to trade-in their bikes for newer, safer models.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a sweeping bill imposing a minimum age limit for social media usage, in the latest example of states taking more aggressive steps intended to protect teens online. But even as Sanders signed the bill into law on Wednesday afternoon, the legislation appeared to contain
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