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Angry parents push for legislative action after Meta court ruling: ‘Phones should be illegal for kids until they’re 18!’
“Ninety-five percent of our kids are using these products that we know are harmful,” one mom told The Post.
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YouTube staffers deliberately aimed for ‘viewer addiction,’ killed safety tools for kids: docs
YouTube employees admitted that their goal was “viewer addiction” and killed proposed safety tools for kids because they wouldn’t provide a high “ROI,” according to bombshell court documents reviewed by The Post.
AI chatbots are prone to frequent fawning and flattery— and are giving users bad advice: study
The 11 chatbots surveyed affirm a user’s actions 49% more often than actual humans did, including in questions indicating deception, illegal or socially irresponsible conduct, the study found.
The jobs most vulnerable to AI — as new study predicts 9 million American workers to be displaced by bots in 5 years
This means some $200 billion to $1.5 trillion in household incomes could be lost.
Wikipedia officially bans AI-generated content — relying on human editors for bot detection
Editors can still use AI in limited ways, such as translating articles from other languages or suggesting minor copy edits.
Inside the fallout between Gavin Newsom and Elon Musk, as their war of words gets worse by the day
What the feud reveals, underneath all the posturing, is that Newsom and Musk were never really allies.
Sony jacking up PlayStation 5 prices for 2nd time in less than a year — here’s how much it will cost you
The new prices take effect next week.
Disgraced Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes just caught a break in court — and prosecutors aren’t happy
Earlier this year, Holmes appealed to President Trump for an early release from prison — a full six years before she is eligible for parole.
Sheryl Sandberg taps 25-year-old to lead her nonprofit — sending senior staff packing: report
Bridget Griswold, a recent Brown grad, rose from a newly hired AI and product director to chief executive of Lean In in a matter of weeks
Here’s the most overlooked part of Larry Fink’s yearly letter to shareholders — and why it could be good news
Fink runs the world’s largest money manager, with $14 trillion in every asset class imaginable, giving him one of the best reads into the market and the global economy.
US judge blocks Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, for now
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin has temporarily blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic.
OpenAI shelves erotic chatbot ‘adult mode’ indefinitely after uproar over user safety: report
The ChatGPT maker has shelved plans to roll out the feature “indefinitely” after investors and advisers raised concerns, the Financial Times reported.
Meta, Google face ‘Big Tobacco’-like reckoning after landmark verdicts on social media addiction
Social media giants Meta and Google had their long-feared “Big Tobacco” moment after suffering a pair of devastating court losses this week – and the real legal trouble is likely just beginning,
Elon Musk’s lawyer accuses San Francisco jury of bias, points to ‘mocking’ $4.20 reference in damages
Defense attorney Alex Spiro argued the verdict in a class action lawsuit filed by Twitter investors was “corrupted” by bias.
Parents of social media victims to Big Tech after addiction trial verdict: ‘This is not over’
The tenacious families of social media victims celebrated the landmark verdict Wednesday that determined Meta and Google design their platforms to be addictive — but insisted that the “war is not over yet.”
Families are fed up with social media — and this week’s legal double whammy is just the beginning for companies like Meta
“I think this absolutely could also open up the floodgates,” attorney Josh Hammer said of this week’s landmark social media trials — both of which Meta lost.
NYC schools drop more than $350K on ‘creepy’ new digital hall pass scheme — that tracks kids’ toilet trips and more
“I feel like most people just would feel uncomfortable about the idea of that,” one teen NYC student told The Post.
‘Big Tech invincibility is over:’ Historic social medial addiction ruling could open legal floodgates
A historic ruling finding Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and YouTube parent Google liable for fueling teen social media addiction could open the floodgates for an unprecedented legal crackdown on Big Tech, critics told The Post.
Supreme Court sides with internet service provider in fight with record labels over pirated music
The 9-0 ruling overturned a lower court’s decision to order a new trial to determine how much the internet service provider owed the record labels for a form of liability called contributory copyright infringement.
Meta, YouTube found liable for woman’s debilitating social media addiction in $3M landmark trial
A verdict has been reached in the social media addiction trial in Los Angeles.
