CNN By Brian Fung, CNN Google should face court sanctions over “intentional and repeated destruction” of company chat logs that the US government expected to use in its antitrust case targeting Google’s search business, the Justice Department said Thursday. Despite Google’s promises to preserve internal communications relevant to the suit, for years the company maintained
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Hanna Ziady, CNN The European Commission has banned TikTok from official devices because of concerns about cybersecurity, a move sharply criticized by the company in its latest run-in with Western governments over how it handles user data. Commission staff have until March 15 to delete the short-form video app, owned by
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Wayne Chang, CNN Several popular Chinese apps have removed access to ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that has taken the world by storm even as major Chinese tech companies race to develop their own equivalent. ChatGPT, developed by the American research lab OpenAI, is not officially available in China, but several
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung and Tierney Sneed, CNN After back-to-back oral arguments this week, the Supreme Court appears reluctant to hand down the kind of sweeping ruling about liability for terrorist content on social media that some feared would upend the internet. On Wednesday, the justices struggled with claims that Twitter contributed to a 2017
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn Vanderbilt University’s Peabody School has apologized to students for using artificial intelligence to write an email about a mass shooting at another university, saying the distribution of the note did not follow the school’s usual processes. Last Friday, the Tennessee-based school emailed its student body to address the tragedy at Michigan State
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN JPMorgan Chase is temporarily clamping down on the use of ChatGPT among its employees, as the buzzy AI chatbot explodes in popularity. The biggest US bank has restricted its use among global staff, according to a person familiar with the matter. The decision was taken not because of a particular issue,
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Amazon closed its acquisition of health care provider One Medical and its parent in a $3.9 billion deal on Wednesday, hours after the Federal Trade Commission said it would not challenge the purchase but that regulators were still investigating potential competitive and consumer harms of the transaction. The landmark deal will
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Tierney Sneed, CNN After back-to-back oral arguments this week, the Supreme Court appears reluctant to hand down the kind of sweeping ruling about liability for terrorist content on social media that some feared would upend the internet. On Wednesday, the justices struggled with claims that Twitter contributed to a 2017 ISIS
Continue ReadingBy Gayle Harrington, CNN Microsoft announced it has agreed to partnerships with Nvidia and Nintendo as it tries to convince European Union officials to approve its $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard — the company behind the popular game franchise Call of Duty. Microsoft President Brad Smith had a closed-door meeting Tuesday with EU regulators
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Brian Fung, CNN One day after Supreme Court justices debated whether Google and its subsidiary YouTube should be held liable for how its algorithm organizes ISIS content, the Court is set to take up questions of tech platforms’ legal exposure for user content in a Twitter case. On Wednesday, the Court
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Tierney Sneed, CNN Supreme Court justices appeared broadly concerned Tuesday about the potential unintended consequences of allowing websites to be sued for their automatic recommendations of user content, highlighting the challenges facing attorneys who want to hold Google accountable for suggesting YouTube videos created by terrorist groups. For nearly three hours
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The Supreme Court is set to hear back-to-back oral arguments this week in two cases that could significantly reshape online speech and content moderation. The outcome of the oral arguments, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, could determine whether tech platforms and social media companies can be sued for recommending content to
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Congress, the White House and now the US Supreme Court are all focusing their attention on a federal law that’s long served as a legal shield for online platforms. This week, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on two pivotal cases dealing with online speech and content moderation.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Amazon is ordering thousands of its workers back to the office for at least three days per week, according to a company memo by CEO Andy Jassy on Friday. The move, which takes effect May 1, marks an end to the remote- or hybrid-friendly policy that had been in place at
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN Amazon closed its acquisition of health care provider One Medical and its parent in a $3.9 billion deal on Wednesday, hours after the Federal Trade Commission said it would not challenge the purchase but that regulators were still investigating potential competitive and consumer harms of the transaction. The landmark deal
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn Microsoft on Thursday said it’s looking at ways to rein in its Bing AI chatbot after a number of users highlighted examples of concerning responses from it this week, including confrontational remarks and troubling fantasies. In a blog post, Microsoft acknowledged that some extended chat sessions with its new Bing chat tool
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Korn Next time you’re wondering how to respond to a colleague on Slack, you may be able to ask ChatGPT for help. Salesforce, the company behind Slack, announced Tuesday that it’s partnering with OpenAI to launch a ChatGPT app for the workplace messaging platform. The new tool will use the AI chatbot
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan, CNN In its annual “worldwide threat assessment,” top US intelligence officials have warned in recent years of the threat posed by so-called deepfakes — convincing fake videos made using artificial intelligence. “Adversaries and strategic competitors,” they warned in 2019, might use this technology “to create convincing—but false—image, audio, and video files to
Continue ReadingCNN By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN In its annual “worldwide threat assessment,” top US intelligence officials have warned in recent years of the threat posed by so-called deepfakes — convincing fake videos made using artificial intelligence. “Adversaries and strategic competitors,” they warned in 2019, might use this technology “to create convincing—but false—image, audio, and video files
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business After asking Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing chatbot for help in coming up with activities for my kids while juggling work, the tool started by offering something unexpected: empathy. The chatbot said it “must be hard” to balance work and family and sympathized for my daily struggles with it. It then
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