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TikTok’s algorithm favored Republican content in 2024 US elections, study finds

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For You pages prioritized pro-Republican content in three states, researchers say, but TikTok says study does not reflect real user behaviorA study published Wednesday in the journal Nature finds that TikTok’s algorithm systematically prioritized pro-Republican content in three states leading up to the 2024 US elections.Researchers created hundreds of dummy accounts and conditioned them to […]

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Europe’s AI translation industry told it risks reputation by partnering with US firms

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Partnership between top startup DeepL and Amazon comes amid concern about Silicon Valley’s monopoly over digital infrastructureAI companies in Europe risk losing their world-leading status in the field of machine translation, industry figures have said, after the decision by one of the continent’s leading startups to partner with Amazon’s cloud computing division provoked alarm.While businesses

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‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools

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Researchers say findings are not reason to shy away from restrictions as MPs consider ban in England’s schoolsStrict bans on mobile phones in schools have “close to zero” impact on student learning and show no evidence of improvements in attendance or online bullying, a study has found.Researchers at US universities including Stanford and Duke looked

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

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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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US announces deals with tech firms for national security review of AI models before release

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Agreements with Microsoft, Google DeepMind and xAI focus largely on recognizing cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical weapons risksThe US government has struck deals with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI to review early versions of their new AI models before they are released to the public.The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), part of the US

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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

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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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Protesters push Portland to investigate firm that appears to supply drone tech to Israel

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Sightline Intelligence sent AI-supported tool to company that provides drones to Israeli military, research group saysAnti-war activists in Portland, Oregon, are pushing city authorities to ensure no local resources, tax breaks or investments support a local company that appears to be supplying artificial intelligence software to the Israeli military.The company, Sightline Intelligence, manufactures AI-supported video

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GameStop shares fall 10% after CEO skirts questions over eBay acquisition details

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Ryan Cohen said he didn’t understand questions about how the video games retailer could afford its $55.5bn bidSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailGameStop’s shares fell more than 10% on Monday as questions emerged about how the company would finance its surprise $55.5bn bid for eBay.In an interview with CNBC, Ryan Cohen, GameStop’s

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

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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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Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military

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Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’Workers developing Google’s artificial intelligence products in the UK have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week.In a letter slated to

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