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Super Bowl spots spark fight over whether we’re ready for ads from our chatbots
The chatbot wars entered the Super Bowl this year.At Super Bowl LX, a ChatGPT competitor paid millions of dollars for commercials mocking the leading artificial intelligence chatbot’s plans to...
Meta, TikTok and others agree to teen safety ratings
Meta, TikTok and Snap will be rated on their teen safety efforts amid rising concern about whether the world’s largest social media platforms are doing enough to protect the...
Silicon Valley is driving users to ditch keyboards and spend hours talking to their tech
Gavin McNamara has abandoned his keyboard and spends all day talking rather than typing. He speaks for hours with his computer and phone, sending emails, writing presentations, posting on...
Pinterest to cut up to 15% of its workforce as focus on AI intensifies
Pinterest said Tuesday it’s planning to slash up to 15% of its workforce.The San Francisco-based image-sharing platform used for inspiration for home decor, fashion and other interests is laying...
Elon Musk’s Grok bot restricts sexual image generation after global outcry
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Thursday started restricting the ability for non-paying users to create deepfake, sexualized images after global pushback from users and governments. Late last month, some...
Elon Musk company bot apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children
Grok, the chatbot of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to have failed when it was prompted with vile user...
Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses Mickey Mouse to Sora AI platform
OpenAI said Thursday it reached a licensing deal with the Walt Disney Co. to use more than 200 popular Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, characters from “Frozen” and Yoda...
Roblox sued by Southern California families alleging children met predators on its platform
Video gaming platform Roblox is facing more lawsuits from parents who allege the San Mateo, Calif., company isn’t doing enough to safeguard children from sexual predators. A Los Angeles...
Online child safety advocates urge California lawmakers to increase protections
SACRAMENTO — Julianna Arnold wasn’t alarmed when her teen daughter first joined Instagram.Many people her age were using it. And her daughter Coco had a social life and other hobbies, like...