Posts by Riah Marton
ChatGPT launches new parental controls for teens amid growing safety concerns
The company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, launched new parental controls for teen accounts on Monday, a month after a California family filed a lawsuit alleging that its chatbot encouraged their son to take his life. With the new controls being rolled out starting Monday, parents can set specific hours when their kids cannot use ChatGPT, turn…
Read MoreCalgary Sun Letters to the Editor, Sept. 28: ‘Beware Putin’s plan’
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Alberta Canada Opinion Letters Published Sep 28, 2025 • Last updated 6 days ago • 2 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Russian President Vladimir Putin holds an online Russia’s Security Council meeting in Moscow in this photo from…
Read MoreAI chatbot safety bills under threat as Newsom ponders restrictions tech groups say would hurt California
California lawmakers want Gov. Gavin Newsom to approve bills they passed that aim to make artificial intelligence chatbots safer. But as the governor weighs whether to sign the legislation into law, he faces a familiar hurdle: objections from tech companies that say new restrictions would hinder innovation. Californian companies are world leaders in AI and…
Read MoreTrump signs executive order to keep TikTok operating in U.S.
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that would allow hugely popular social video app TikTok to continue to operate in the United States. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, had been under pressure to divest its ownership in the app’s U.S. operations or face a nationwide ban, due to security concerns over the company’s ties…
Read MoreSpotify says it removed millions of ‘spammy’ AI-generated music tracks
Spotify has removed more than 75 million AI-generated “spammy” music tracks from its platform over the past 12 months, the company said Thursday, stepping up its crackdown on unauthorized AI-generated use of artists’ voices. The Swedish audio company said it would improve its enforcement of impersonation violations, launch a new spam filtering system and work…
Read MoreAmazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle claims it duped Prime customers
Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle accusations it tricked millions of customers into subscribing to Prime and made it tough for them to cancel. Under the settlement — one of the largest to come out of a Federal Trade Commission case — Amazon will pay up to $51 each to eligible customers.…
Read MoreNvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI to build data centers
Nvidia plans to invest $100 billion in OpenAI, giving the ChatGPT maker a huge war chest to build data centers with the chip maker’s chips. OpenAI will gain access to millions of Nvidia chips in the coming years. “Everything starts with compute,” Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, said in a joint news release. “Compute…
Read More‘Extremely chaotic.’ Tech industry rattled by Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee
President Trump’s new sky-high visa fees have shaken Silicon Valley’s tech giants as they contemplate a surge in the cost of hiring global talent and a new tactic the White House can use to keep Silicon Valley in line. The tech industry was already navigating an economy with higher and unpredictable tariffs, when last week…
Read MoreMurdoch’s Fox Corp. could join Trump deal to preserve TikTok in the U.S.
Another pair of influencers might be joining President Trump’s effort to preserve TikTok in the U.S.: Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch. The Trump administration has been working on a deal that would keep the wildly popular social video service operational for millions of Americans. Under a law signed by President Biden, TikTok’s U.S. service must separate…
Read MoreContributor: The internet made us stupid. AI promises to make it worse
Floating along on my bicycle on a daydream of a country road, up behind me came a man on a hissing e-bike, going fast, headed somewhere important. I thought at that speed — 25 miles an hour, I estimated — and with dusk gathering, he risked hitting a bear that would promptly eat him and…
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