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Some of Meta's safety tools were 'designed to fail': Witness
A former employee testified Wednesday that some of Meta's safety tools for Facebook and Instagram were "designed to fail," contradicting the company's defense strategy in a landmark trial in California.
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When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can't be traced to training data
When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals and proposed regulations worldwide. Artists want credit. Companies ...
Aug 18, 2026
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Workplace AI learns to read more like humans by breaking documents into multiple levels
Modern artificial intelligence (AI) platforms can summarize reports, analyze documents and answer questions in seconds. But when information is spread across dozens of slides, charts and tables, even advanced models can miss ...
Aug 18, 2026
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AI can help make complex IPO filings easier to analyze
For investors trying to make sense of a company going public, one of the most important documents is often the most difficult to understand. Initial public offering (IPO) filings are dense disclosures submitted to the U.S. ...
Aug 18, 2026
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Meta hooked children and misled the public: Prosecutors
Meta hooked and exploited children, a federal court heard Tuesday in the trial of the social media giant on charges that it deliberately made Instagram and Facebook addictive to young users.
Aug 18, 2026
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Who gets credit when AI joins the team? Rethinking what it means to own an idea
A few months ago, AI made headlines for cracking a mathematical puzzle that had stumped experts for decades. Mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit-distance conjecture, predicting how many pairs of points could lie the same ...
Aug 17, 2026
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Twitch sparks gamers' wrath with Amazon AI sharing deal
Livestream gaming giant Twitch has raised hackles among its millions of users after declaring it will share their data with its parent company, Amazon, to better train the online retailer's AI models.
Aug 13, 2026
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Layoffs tied to AI hurt worker productivity, and the reason may surprise managers
Business leaders and investors face a deepening paradox: Companies are pouring more money into artificial intelligence than ever, but they're not seeing the productivity gains they expect.
Aug 12, 2026
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Experts explain why we don't need more data centers to build better AI
Sending data centers into space. Building them at the bottom of the ocean. Converting California fairgrounds—and San Francisco's Cow Palace—into massive buildings filled with servers.
Aug 12, 2026
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Meta meets its own 'tobacco' moment as jury selection kicks off trial
Jury selection kicked off Wednesday in a California courtroom where Instagram and Facebook owner Meta will defend itself against allegations of harming children in a new trial that experts describe as social media's Big Tobacco ...
Aug 12, 2026
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French newspapers target Google over AI summaries
A federation of nearly 300 French newspapers said Tuesday that it filed a complaint with the country's competition authority over Google's new AI-generated search-result summaries, fearing the feature will erode traffic to ...
Aug 11, 2026
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Complaints about online platforms often go nowhere. AI could actually be part of the solution
You know the feeling. Your account is suspended, your refund request is refused, or you're still being charged for a canceled subscription.
Aug 11, 2026
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The economic realities of fusion power—a framework for understanding what it would take to be profitable
In the last decade, scientists have shown that fusion energy can work as a physical process. Next question: Can it work economically? A study co-authored by MIT professors Dennis Whyte and Andrew W. Lo proposes a framework ...
Aug 10, 2026
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Carbon accounting rules can shape both hydrogen investment returns and emissions
A new study by University of Mannheim researchers Gunther Glenk, Philip Holler and Stefan Reichelstein examines how the assessment of carbon emissions affects incentives for producing electrolytic hydrogen. They found that ...
Aug 10, 2026
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AI is flooding the online book market with poor translations—here's how to spot them
If you're buying literature in translation online, buyer beware. You may unknowingly be buying low-quality AI-assisted translations presented as the work of a professional.
Aug 10, 2026
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EU tells Meta, TikTok to boost monitoring, fact-checking
The EU's tech chief called on Meta and TikTok to "act decisively" to stem disinformation at times of crisis, saying the European Commission held talks with both platforms Friday following last week's Ceuta migrant surge.
Aug 8, 2026
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Apple and OpenAI escalate legal battle over devices
A legal battle between Apple and OpenAI over the ChatGPT maker's secretive device project escalated this week when the artificial intelligence (AI) developer called the iPhone maker's allegations "baseless" and asked for ...
Aug 8, 2026
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Will companies ever be run by an AI CEO?
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has speculated about how long it will take for artificial intelligence to replace senior leadership teams in organizations. "Shame on me," Altman told the Conversations with Tyler podcast in November ...
Aug 6, 2026
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Google rolls back new satellite image AI tool after backlash
Google rolled back a new feature Friday allowing Google Earth users to generate AI visualizations on top of the service's satellite imagery, following a furious backlash from researchers and open-source intelligence experts ...
Aug 1, 2026
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Rethinking how AI supports investment decisions
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming modern finance, powering applications ranging from stock market forecasting to investment advice. But does making more accurate predictions necessarily lead to better investment ...
Jul 30, 2026
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Why the AI industry is so fond of the prefix 'co'—by an expert in linguistics
AI companies and evangelists frequently use terms such as copilot, coworker, cocreator and co-scientist to imply these rapidly developing systems can happily coexist with us humans. Their inference is clear: People should ...
Jul 30, 2026
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Elon Musk launches invite-only X Money with a Visa debit card, 6% yield and real-time transfers
Elon Musk's social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, launched its own bank account-like product where users can send money to one another.
Jul 29, 2026
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US bans foreign-made humanoid robots, targeting China over national security
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is banning imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security risks, in a move that targets China. Beijing quickly accused the U.S. of protectionism.
Jul 29, 2026
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