The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns that proposed legislation targeting so-called "stealth crawlers" threatens the open web, user privacy, and valuable research, while the New York state le…
Google's AI cited Facebook as a source in 19.5 million AI Overviews, according to new research from enterprise SEO firm BrightEdge. The study, which tracks roughly 300 million monthly searches, found …
Employees at AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI are outspending earlier tech giants in political donations, with 59 per 1,000 Anthropic employees donating to federal campaigns this cycle — nearly triple the…
Peter Thiel, cofounder of Palantir and a major Silicon Valley political financier, published his fullest public argument yet on his 'Antichrist' theory in a second co-authored essay for First Things, …
A Mozilla Foundation audit of six popular period trackers found that the astrology-themed app Stardust sends users' reproductive health details—including birth control type, pregnancy status, and symp…
Elha-Mai Weston, 19, who was ordered to pay £10,000 to Sasha Davies, 19, after using her social media photos and AI-generated content to create fake online profiles in a four-year catfishing campaign,…
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel and git, is employed by the Linux Foundation, a non-profit funded primarily by megacorporations including six AI-focused platinum members (Google, Huawei, F…
The Philippines condemned China's state-run China Daily for an AI-generated video posted on Facebook depicting Filipinos as monkeys, calling it racist, offensive, and distressing. The video, shared on…
Meta is rolling out new parental alert features for its AI chatbot that notify parents enrolled in Instagram supervision when a teenager's chat suggests suicide or self-harm, expanding to Pakistan by …
Instagram will send messages to parents if their children are having distressing conversations with its Meta AI chatbot, parent company Meta announced. The feature, built with expert input, alerts par…
Meta will alert parents if their teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot, with the feature now live for parents using Instagram parental supervision in the US, UK, Australia, and C…
Meta announced that parents can now receive alerts when their teens discuss suicide or self-harm with its AI on Instagram, Facebook, or Meta Horizon, requiring opt-in to supervision tools.…
Meta announced Thursday it will add safety features to its AI chatbot, including parental notifications when teens discuss self-harm or suicidal intentions, with alerts sent via text, email or in-app …
Spotify launched a conversational AI beta for Premium users aged 18 and older in the US, Ireland, and Sweden, allowing them to control playback and explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks through voic…
Homebound, an open-source alpha-stage Django blog, lets users self-host their social-media history from Google+, Facebook, and Twitter/X, with full-text and semantic search, an MCP server for LLM inte…
A solo operator built a $6,000/month ad copywriting business in 90 days using Claude, turning a 10-hour task into a 2-hour workflow. The model layers active retainers with passive income from digital …
A teenager who was subjected to a four-year catfishing campaign after another teenage girl stole her identity has won a £10,000 payout. Sasha Davies, now 19, was targeted as a 16-year-old by Elha-Mai …
A teenage student, Sasha Davies, has won £10,000 in High Court damages after Elha-Mai Weston, another teenager from the same Welsh town, stole her identity and used her photos and AI-generated imagery…
Meta faces a lawsuit in federal court in California alleging its AI tools unfairly targeted employees on maternity or disability leave for layoffs during a workforce reduction of approximately 8,000 p…
Twenty-six Meta employees have sued the company, alleging it used artificial intelligence tools to tag workers for mass layoffs after they took protected leave, including maternity leave and disabilit…