An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech
Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and
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An FCC plan could end the anonymous burner phone in the US
The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Privacy groups say the plan would end anonymous burner phones and tie
Xi tells World AI Conference no single country should monopolise AI
Xi Jinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence “should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony
PayPal board rebuffs $53bn Stripe and Advent bid as too low, sources say
PayPal’s board reckons that a $53bn (£39bn) joint takeover approach from Stripe and the private-equity firm Advent International sells the payments pioneer short, the latest
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn’t start
SpaceX called off a test flight of its powerful Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster as the countdown clock reached zero Thursday at the company’s spaceport
Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing
Two nominees for high-profile health roles in the Trump administration faced scrutiny from the Senate health committee Wednesday—and both crashed and burned in their own
GameStop’s Ryan Cohen calls physical game sales ‘totally irrelevant’ and pivots every question back to eBay
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen dismissed the decline of physical video game sales as “totally, totally irrelevant” to the company’s business in an interview on Bloomberg
Visa launched a stablecoin platform that sent Circle shares tumbling six percent
Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform on Thursday, a new infrastructure product that lets banks and payment processors issue, manage, and settle stablecoin transactions through
Volkswagen enters the robotaxi race with a shared shuttle service in Hamburg
Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary Moia has begun offering rides in self-driving ID Buzz vans to preregistered residents in Hamburg, marking the first time a major
The driver who crashed a Tesla into a Texas home at 70 mph had pressed the accelerator to 100 percent, NTSB finds
The driver of a Tesla that crashed into a Texas home and killed a 76-year-old woman had manually overrode Full Self-Driving by pressing the accelerator
DeepMind CEO pushes for AI industry self-regulation
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is pushing for the US AI industry to self-regulate, with the support of government, as a starting point for an
CISA urges immediate SharePoint hardening as exploits mount
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged organizations to immediately secure Microsoft SharePoint deployments after warning that three vulnerabilities affecting the on-premises
SpaceX Briefly Falls Below I.P.O. Price of $135
After soaring in its stock market debut, the shares of Elon Musk’s rocket and A.I. company have been rocky.
Vocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data
An open source, speech-to-text tool for Linux called Vocalinux has just introduced its 0.14 beta release, bringing about a mix of refinements that touch keyboard