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December 23, 2024
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READ MOREAccording to reports from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, a recently unsealed legal complaint reveals that Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, intentionally designed its social media platforms to attract young users and was aware of millions of complaints regarding underage users on Instagram. However, the company only deactivated a small portion
READ MOREAccording to an online database managed by Russia’s interior ministry, the country has put the spokesperson of Meta, a U.S. tech company that owns Facebook and Instagram, on a list of wanted individuals. According to reports from Russian state agency Tass and independent news outlet Mediazona, Meta’s communications director Andy Stone was recently added to
READ MORENATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces’ missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers’ fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space. The Pentagon’s goal is to deploy
READ MORENissan plans to inject $1.4 billion into its manufacturing plant in northeastern England in order to produce electric models of its top-selling vehicles. This is seen as a positive development for the British government’s efforts to revitalize the struggling economy. The automaker from Japan produces the Qashqai and Juke crossover vehicles, which run on either
READ MOREOpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, and its co-founder Sam Altman have had a busy week in New York. Altman, who helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab back in 2015, was removed as CEO Friday in a sudden and mostly unexplained exit that stunned the industry. And while his chief executive title was swiftly
READ MOREDespite the ongoing scandals in the cryptocurrency sector, policymakers in Washington seem uninterested in passing legislation that would establish a formal structure for the industry. The most recent development is Binance’s agreement to pay a multi-billion dollar settlement to U.S. officials and the stepping down of the company’s CEO this week. Prior to this, FTX
READ MOREA judge in Florida has ruled that a jury should determine if Tesla and Elon Musk made false claims about the capabilities of their Autopilot system, which led to a fatal crash. The crash occurred when a software engineer activated the system, removed his hands from the steering wheel, and collided with a truck just
READ MOREBroadcom, a company that produces computer chips and software, has stated that it has successfully passed all necessary regulations and intends to finalize its purchase of VMware, a cloud technology company, on Wednesday for a total of $69 billion. The corporation, located in San Jose, California, declared its intention to proceed with the agreement once
READ MOREThe former CEO of OpenAI, the company responsible for creating ChatGPT, is going back to the company that let him go at the end of last week. This marks the end of a battle for control that lasted several days and caused a stir in the tech world, highlighting the challenges in developing artificial intelligence
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