French President Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union regulation to ban social media for children under the age of 15 after a fatal stabbing at a school in eastern France, the latest such violent attack that left the country reeling. Macron said in an interview late on Tuesday that he hoped to […]
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Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that social media companies must be held accountable for some types of content published by users on their platforms in the country, but details on the decision have yet to be resolved. Six of the 11 Supreme Court judges voted to hold platforms responsible for third-party content seen as
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Philip Stafford / Financial Times: BitcoinTreasuries.net: about 130 publicly-listed companies currently hold a combined ~$87B in bitcoin, about 3.2% of all the bitcoins that will ever exist — Corporate treasuries now hold more than 3% of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, a stash worth $87bn Source link
Meta Platforms said on Monday that Arun Srinivas has been appointed as the managing director and head for Meta in India, effective July 1. Srinivas currently heads the tech giant’s India ads business, according to his LinkedIn profile. His appointment comes at a time when Meta and Indian authorities have locked horns regarding allegations of
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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 7.3Tbps DDoS attack in mid-May, which delivered 37.4TB of junk traffic to the target in just 45 seconds — Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger … Source link
Justice Department antitrust enforcers are reviewing whether Google’s planned $32 billion (roughly Rs. 2,75,462 crore) acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the marketplace, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Officials in the department’s antitrust division, who are probing the deal, have been examining the contours of the Alphabet unit’s plan following
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Sigal Samuel / Vox: Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on his nonprofit LawZero focusing on AI safety, its research direction, risks of increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems, and more — “I should have thought of this 10 years ago,” Yoshua Bengio says. … The science fiction author Isaac Asimov once came … Source link
ElevenLabs announced the language expansion of its latest artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-speech (TTS) model last week. With this expansion, the AI model now supports 41 new languages, taking the total count to 70 supported languages. The New York City-based AI startup said that with this expansion, the model is now accessible to 90 percent of
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple execs have held internal discussions about bidding for, or partnering with, Perplexity, seeking to address the need for more AI talent and tech — Apple Inc. executives have held internal discussions about potentially bidding for artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI … Source link