Meta told to pay another $567m in New Mexico child safety lawsuit
A US judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest fine against the company over child safety. Judge Bryan Biedscheid said the…
Why airlines are warning over lithium-ion batteries
According to Jonathan Nicholson at the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), for the airline industry, lithium-ion batteries are “if not number one, within the top three risks for a good few years now”. A US recent study showed, external…
AI or real? BBC analyses viral China disaster videos
As weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and it’s causing real world problems in China. Source link
Disney agrees deal to let TikTokers use its characters in videos
Disney and TikTok have agreed a deal which will allow creators to use clips from Disney films, including its subsidiaries, in their videos. It means clips from hit franchises like Star Wars, Toy Story and the Marvel Cinematic Universe will soon start…
SpaceX’s first-ever earnings show a loss and huge spending
SpaceX has delivered its first-ever quarterly business report, which showed revenue nearly doubled but its spending skyrocketed. The company, run by Elon Musk, builds space rockets and Starlink internet satellites and owns the social media platform X. It…
Artificial intelligence: Why firms are struggling to set prices
Will Venters, Associate Professor of Digital Innovation and Information Systems at the London School of Economics, said companies can be caught out as they experiment with or implement AI internally, as staff burn through tokens. “People are…
Xbox Series X price hiked by £170 due to rising memory chip costs
Once a cheap part used to provide computers and a range of gadgets with short-term memory, random-access memory (RAM) has shot up in price due, in part, to demand from AI firms. Prices for graphics cards, a key component of consoles and gaming PCs, have…
AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says Hugging Face boss
The boss of one of the companies recently hacked by out-of-control artificial intelligence (AI) says bot makers must be accountable for cyber attacks carried out by their creations. Clement Delangue’s company Hugging Face was breached by a rogue…
Snapchat joins other platforms in the fight against ‘AI slop’
As Chris Best, the co-founder and chief executive of Substack put it last week: “It’s getting harder to tell what’s real on the internet.” Announcing a new tool, external designed to let readers on the newsletter platform detect…
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