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i Phone users may get up to $95 in Apple Siri settlement payouts
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (336+ words) Owners of some i Phones could receive payouts of up to $95 (87) from Apple after the company agreed on Tuesday to a $250 million (230 million) settlement in a class-action lawsuit over alleged false advertising of its artificial intelligence capabilities. Apple promoted new…...
DMA: How the EU's big tech law changed citizens' lives
6+ hour, 43+ min ago (669+ words) The DMA took effect in May 2023 and targets gatekeepers, a handful of technology giants whose platforms have become essential infrastructure for modern life. Under the law, companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, and Byte Dance must open their ecosystems to…...
Your AI chats may reveal your personality, researchers warn
7+ hour, 28+ min ago (253+ words) Artificial intelligence can predict a user's personality based on their chat history, a new study finds. In a pre-print study, researchers from ETH Zurich asked 668 Chat GPT users from the United States and the United Kingdom to share copies of…...
How is the DMA reshaping Big Tech's grip on the internet? | Euronews
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (200+ words) The European Commission has released its first formal review of the Digital Markets Act, a law aimed at regulating Big Tech's dominance in Europe's digital economy. The verdict: progress, with caveats. Since the DMA was enacted in March 2024, users have…...
What is Elon Musk's new chip-making facility, Terafab, and why is he building it now? | Euronews
21+ hour, 39+ min ago (312+ words) Elon Musk's plan to build a major chipmaking facility in Texas, in the United States, has taken a clearer shape after Space X filed plans for a $55 billion (46. 8 billion) chipmaking facility on Wednesday. Musk announced the Terafab project in March…...
Why news publishers are blocking AI from accessing internet archives
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (617+ words) Around 245 global news organisations across nine countries are attempting to block the Internet Archive's crawlers. These are automated software bots that capture, display and archive content from web pages in the Internet Archive's public-facing interface, the Wayback Machine. The Archive…...
Google sets 2029 deadline to prepare for quantum cyber threat
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (386+ words) A new era of quantum computing could challenge the foundations of online security sooner than many expect, Google says. Cybersecurity experts have sounded the alarm for years about quantum computers becoming so powerful that they could break the public encryption…...
Video. An AI agent deleted a company's entire database - then apologised
1+ week, 2+ day ago (269+ words) Video. The AI system, powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus model, had been handling a routine task when it independently chose to "fix" an issue by wiping the data - without any human approval. Whoopsy! Video. An AI agent deleted a company's…...
Scientists create new AI tool to predict genetic risk for common hereditary diseases
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (124+ words) The researchers say the model could be used to help doctors decipher the results of genetic tests and funnel patients into the appropriate level of care....
Germany is investing billions in AI - but who is making a profit?
7+ mon, 6+ day ago (672+ words) Hardly any other technology is currently receiving as much funding as artificial intelligence, with the federal government and companies investing heavily. However, digitalisation researcher Rehak warns that AI is not currently a profitable business model....