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OpenAI in Talks to Create 'iPhone of Artificial Intelligence'

OpenAI is reportedly in advanced talks with former Apple designer Jony Ive and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank to collaborate on the 'iPhone of artificial intelligence.'...

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European Commission Study: X a Major Source of Disinformation

According to a European Commission study, X — formerly Twitter — has the biggest proportion of disinformation among six major social media platforms....

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US Government, 17 States Sue Amazon in Landmark Monopoly Case

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alongside 17 state attorneys general (AGs), has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, claiming the company unfairly promotes itself at the expense of third-party sellers who rely on the company’s e-commerce marketplace for distribution....

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ChatGPT Rolls Out Voice and Image Prompts

On Monday, OpenAI announced that it intends to add voice and image features to ChatGPT over the next two weeks....

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Asteroid Chunk Collected by NASA After Desert Landing

Completing its seven-year, four-billion-mile trek through space and back, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the desert of the US military's Utah Test and Training Range Sunday, carrying the largest soil sample ever collected from an asteroid....

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Musk’s Neuralink Seeks Humans for Brain-Implant Trials

Elon Musk's brain-chip start-up Neuralink has started recruiting people for its first human trial....

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Cisco Buys AI Firm Splunk in Historic $28B Deal

Technology giant Cisco agreed on Thursday to buy Splunk, a data-analysis and artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity company, for $28B in one of the largest business acquisitions of the year and the age of AI....

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Donald Trump Jr.’s X Account Hacked

Donald Trump Jr.’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter, was hacked on Wednesday morning. Numerous posts with false information were published to his 10.4M followers....

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Report: Huawei Shipping New Surveillance Camera Chips

A unit of Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies is reportedly shipping new Chinese-made chips for surveillance cameras, as the company finds ways around four years of US export controls that have blocked its access to American technology....

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Google Expands AI Bot to Gmail, GDrive, and YouTube

As competition with Microsoft-backed OpenAI intensifies, Google announced Tuesday that it will integrate its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, known as Bard, into products such as Gmail, YouTube, and Drive. Users will be able to collaborate with the chatbot through 'Bard Extensions.'...

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Musk Suggests Paywalling X

Elon Musk, owner of X, formerly Twitter, floated the idea of a monthly fee for users during a talk he had Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....

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Cyberattack Strikes Clorox, Disrupting Operations

Some Clorox products are now in short supply after an August cyberattack caused large-scale disruption in the company's production....

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EU Regulator Fines TikTok €345M Over Child Data Violations

The European Union’s chief data privacy regulator has fined TikTok €345M ($370M) for violating EU laws pertaining to the processing of children’s personal data, marking the first time the video platform has been punished by the privacy watchdog....

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NASA Report Finds No Evidence of 'Extraterrestrial' UFOs

In a finalized 36-page report issued on Thursday, an independent group of NASA scientists said they had found no concrete evidence to suggest that UAP — unidentified anomalous phenomena, NASA's preferred term for UFOs — is extraterrestrial....

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Google to Require Disclosure of AI-Generated Political Ads

Beginning in November, roughly a year before the 2024 US presidential election, Google will require a prominent disclosure for any political ads on its services — such as YouTube — that include audio or images synthetically altered or created by artificial intelligence (AI)....

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TikTok Shop Launches in US

TikTok’s e-commerce service, TikTok Shop, has officially launched in the US, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday, as it looks to bring online shopping to its 150M American users....

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Tech Firms Join White House's AI Pledge

The White House announced on Tuesday that eight American technology firms have joined Pres. Biden's voluntary AI commitments, which mandate taking actions toward developing responsible AI, such as watermarking AI-generated content....

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US Senate Hearings Seek Solutions to AI Dangers

Congress is this week holding three hearings on the regulation of artificial intelligence, with top industry executives and experts set to attend....

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Google Antitrust Trial Begins

The landmark antitrust trial against Google opened Tuesday in Washington, DC — the largest US antitrust trial in decades....

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Whistleblower Claims CIA Bribed COVID Team to Reject Lab-Leak Theory

An anonymous senior-level CIA whistleblower, who testified Tuesday before the US House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has claimed that the agency bribed analysts to cover up their findings that COVID originated in a lab in Wuhan, Ch...

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Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google to Begin

As the US Justice Dept. (DOJ) is set to bring its antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, rivals of the tech giant — such as search engine DuckDuckGo — will be watching as the US government argues that Google uses unfair tactics to dominate internet searches. The case will be held before...

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Apple Will Switch to USB-C Charging

Apple is expected to comply with a European Union law that requires the company to shift its iPhone charging port from Lightning to USB-C, despite the company’s objections to the change.

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Japan Launches 'Moon Sniper' Lunar Mission

On Thursday, Japan launched a lunar exploration spacecraft in hopes of becoming the fifth country in the world to land on the moon....

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Apple Shares Slide After China's iPhone Ban

Apple shares have fallen by over 6% since Wednesday following reports that the PRC has prohibited government employees from using iPhones....

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New Zealand to Produce Lab-Grown Fruit

Amid a changing climate that could cause food insecurity, scientists at New Zealand's Plant and Food Research are attempting to grow fruit tissues inside a lab....

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