OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its chatbot with stricter safeguards around self-harm, violence, eating disorders, and sexual content, adding parental controls and safety alerts. T…
Meta is beta-testing its upcoming Muse Video model with selected partners, and early outputs show state-of-the-art potential in fine detail, world understanding, and temporal consistency, producing 10…
A study from Queen's University Belfast warns that AI is 'squeezing out' and 'marginalising' musicians, with UK regulations 'woefully lagging behind' the EU and US. Researcher Dr Katherine Pittalis fo…
Jeremy Morrell, a principal engineer at Cloudflare, proposes that web applications let users generate missing features via LLM-written code running in sandboxed runtimes, addressing niche workflows th…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto promotes the open-source Llama strategy as democratizing AI, but critics note that licensing terms restrict commercial use past a certain scale, making it a fre…
OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT for Teens on August 18, 2026, routing 13- to 17-year-olds into a version with tighter safety guardrails, but parents still cannot read their teen's chats. The rollout …
Aaron Swartz, co-creator of the RSS protocol, faced prosecution for downloading about 70 gigabytes of academic articles from JSTOR, with charges that could have led to 35 years in prison and a $1 mill…
Meta Platforms Inc. launched a dedicated Mac app for its Meta AI chatbot on Wednesday, allowing users to share their screen with the AI for suggestions, answers, and content creation, and supporting d…
California accused Meta on Tuesday of studying 'vulnerabilities in teens' brains' to hook children on Facebook and Instagram, then concealing the harm, in opening statements of a federal trial in Oakl…
Mothers of children who died by suicide or drug overdoses after using Meta's apps condemned the company outside a federal courthouse in Oakland as a trial began over whether Meta built Facebook and In…
Most social media platforms train AI models on user content, and few offer easy opt-outs, according to a Lifehacker report. Twitch recently allowed users to opt out, but Facebook, for example, does no…
Google's AI Overviews cited Facebook in 19.5 million of over 300 million U.S. monthly searches, Instagram in about 877,000, and TikTok in around 78,000, according to BrightEdge research. The analysis …
PostHog's engineering team reports that optimizing token spend, or 'tokenminning,' can significantly reduce LLM costs, citing an example where a product's daily LLM costs doubled from $5,000 to $10,00…
Meta Platforms Inc. deceived the public for years by targeting children on Facebook and Instagram with technology designed to turn them into compulsive users and drive up advertising revenue, a lawyer…
OpenAI launched 'ChatGPT for Teens' on Tuesday, a suite of safety guardrails and features automatically enabled for users aged 13 to 17, aimed at preventing emotional bonding and providing educational…
Meta Platforms Inc. has declined to remove multiple Facebook posts and comments calling for violence against Muslims, including one that says "it's time for hunting" and another that refers to Muslims…
Meta Platforms Inc. goes on trial this week in Oakland, California, over allegations that it built Facebook and Instagram to addict children, concealed the resulting harm, and illegally collected youn…
Meta Platforms Inc. faces opening arguments Tuesday in a California federal trial where 29 state attorneys general, co-led by California AG Rob Bonta, accuse the company of designing Instagram and Fac…
Replit added black-box penetration testing on August 17, enabling its AI app builder to probe published applications from an attacker's perspective and pass confirmed findings to Replit Agent for prop…
Mexico is exploring ways to regulate social media use among children and adolescents, with President Claudia Sheinbaum inviting experts to her daily press conference and planning discussions with teac…