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TikTok employees warned that sexual content involving minors was being sold on the platform, and management didn't listen: the company says the quotes were cherry-picked

TikTok didn't run surveys on its users' ages, fearing it would have to show the results to the US regulator....

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Amazon goes after Nvidia's biggest advantage: its TorchNeuron tool moves AI apps onto Trainium chips by changing a single line

Nvidia did not win on chips alone, but on the software around them. Amazon is now attacking exactly that wall,...

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Apple bans apps that pose as ordinary during review and then make nude images of people: San Francisco ordered a clean-up back in July

Apple says App Store review blocked more than 150,000 apps last year. So how did "undressing" apps get through the...

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Anthropic Is Hiring Fewer and Fewer Beginners: The Share of Juniors Among New Technical Hires Fell From 27 to 9 Percent, While Meeting Time per Employee Rose by a Fifth

The company that sells automation has published the numbers on its own staff: the beginners are disappearing, while the experienced...

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The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Took 15 Million Dollars on Its Opening Weekend, the Second-Best Documentary Opening Ever: The Theranos Fraud Still Sells

The woman who fooled Silicon Valley with blood tests that didn't work is now filling cinemas. The Musk film, meanwhile,...

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Replit knocks Claude off the top spot: OpenAI becomes the default model, while Anthropic insists the partnership still stands

One of Anthropic's five biggest customers turned its back on stage, then started softening the words. When the default choice...

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Tesla shows off a Roadster that flies with SpaceX thrusters: the reservation costs 50,000 dollars, the price wasn't announced, and Musk says safety isn't the priority

A car that hops over trucks on compressed air and arrives in 2028 - unless it slips again. The deposit...

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AI Agents From Several Companies Got Into Indian Systems and Read Personal Data: The State Found Out From the Providers, Not From the Victims

The agents didn't break anything - they used passwords someone had left in a public place. And India learned of...

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Waymo Enters Canada, but No Robotaxis for Now: Toronto Is Its Northernmost City Yet, and Snow Will Be the Real Test

The permit is here, driverless rides are not. Maps first, then tests with a human at the wheel, and Toronto's...

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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, the "most capable" open model in the US: it runs on a Mac, if you have at least a terabyte of RAM

816 billion parameters, open weights and a promise that it runs on a Mac. The small print: you need at...

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Spyware that gets in through an ordinary ad, without a single click: Citizen Lab points to Israel's Discover-Tech

All it takes is an ad appearing on your screen and the device is infected. Al Jazeera is most likely...

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YouTube Music will tell you if a song was made by a machine: the label is here, but the money for AI songs keeps flowing

Three labels, from "fully generated" to "no AI", and not a single ban. YouTube is tagging machine-made songs while also...

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