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Mother of Elon Musk’s children testifies in lawsuit against OpenAI

Shivon Zilis, an executive at Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, served on OpenAI’s board from 2020 to 2023Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive and the mother of four of Elon Musk’s children, took the stand on Wednesday as one of the most highly anticipated witnesses in Musk’s case against OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker has argued that, […]

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Apple agrees to pay $250m after falsely claiming AI-powered Siri was ‘available now’

Settlement, which includes no admission of wrongdoing, covers roughly 36m eligible devices in class-action lawsuitApple on Tuesday agreed to pay $250m to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of misleading millions of iPhone buyers by falsely touting artificial intelligence capabilities for its Siri voice assistant in late 2024.Plaintiffs accused the California tech giant of having

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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama modelFive major publishers sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence models.Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill, as well as

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Elon Musk settles SEC lawsuit over Twitter purchase and agrees to pay $1.5m fine

Musk won’t have to give up any money he allegedly saved from delaying disclosure of initial purchase of Twitter stockSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailElon Musk settled the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil lawsuit accusing the world’s richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to disclose his initial purchases of

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‘Superhighways for child sexual abuse’: California lawmakers seek tougher rules for big tech

Online exploitation ‘inflicting profound trauma on a staggering number of children’, Democrats sayFrustrated with what they describe as a lack of accountability from social media companies, two California state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would clear a legal pathway for them to face lawsuits in the state for failing to detect or remove child

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AI hallucinations found in high-profile Wall Street law firm filing

Sullivan & Cromwell apologises to New York federal judge for string of errors in documents for Prince Group caseThe elite Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell has told a court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained errors resulting from hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence.Andrew Dietderich, the co-head of the

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Newly unsealed records reveal Amazon’s price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claims

Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant’s anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixingHundreds of previously redacted records reveal how Amazon has put pressure on independent sellers using its platform into raising their prices on the sites of competitors such as

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Roblox to implement youth protections and pay $12m in Nevada settlement

Popular gaming platform will require age verification, restrict nighttime notifications for minors and limit chatsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxRoblox, a gaming platform popular with kids, will implement increased protections for young users and pay more than $12m to the state of Nevada in what the

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Ohio man becomes first to be convicted under new AI statute for sexually explicit images

James Strahler II pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, producing obscene images and digital forgeries of child sexual abuseSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxAn Ohio man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to cybercrimes involving real and AI-generated “sexually explicit images”, becoming what the Department of Justice claims is the

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At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder | Jonathan Freedland

The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightbackGood news is so rare these days, you don’t quite know how to take it. You want to celebrate, but a rival instinct tells you it’ll be pulled back somehow, the same feeling

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