Articles from www.theguardian.com

Articles from www.theguardian.com

Writers and publishers criticize Spines, which raised a $16M seed round and charges authors $1,200 to $5,000 to use AI to edit and distribute their books (www.theguardian.com)
2024-11-29 AI

Ofcom: Reddit was visited by 22.9M UK adults in May 2024, up 47% YoY, making it the fifth most popular social media platform in the UK, surpassing X at 22.1M (www.theguardian.com)
2024-11-28 Reddit

Romania's regulator calls for TikTok's suspension after an ultranationalist's shock first-round win fueled by viral TikTok videos, amid vote interference fears (www.theguardian.com)
2024-11-28 Romania

TikTok plans to block users under 18 years of age from using beauty filters and says it is tightening its systems to block users under 13 from the platform (www.theguardian.com)
2024-11-27

FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's Ministry of Justice about using its tech to calculate the “reoffending risks” of prisoners (www.theguardian.com)
2024-11-17

Apple adds an iMessage child safety feature in iOS 18.2 developer beta in Australia that will let children report nudity sent to them to Apple (www.theguardian.com)
2024-10-25 IOS Australia Apple

Penguin Random House, UMG, and SAG-AFTRA join 11.5K+ signatories of an open letter saying the “unlicensed use of creative works” to train AI must not be allowed (www.theguardian.com)
2024-10-23 AI

A profile of Denise Coates, the UK's richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion (www.theguardian.com)
2024-10-2

Google says the UK risks being “left behind” in the AI race without more data centers and should relax laws barring AI models being trained on copyrighted works (www.theguardian.com)
2024-9-22 Google AI

Ofcom: internet replaced TV as UK's most popular news source; 71% of adults get news online, vs. 70% via TV; 52% use social media for news, up from 47% in 2023 (www.theguardian.com)
2024-9-10

A writer on working for a tech company, writing pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions, to help train AI models and teach chatbots how to write (www.theguardian.com)
2024-9-9 AI chatbot

Pavel Durov calls his arrest by French authorities “misguided” and denies Telegram is an “anarchic paradise”, in his first public comments since the detention (www.theguardian.com)
2024-9-6 France

YouTube begins restricting repeated video recommendations to teens about fitness levels, body weights, or physical features globally, expanding beyond the US (www.theguardian.com)
2024-9-5 YouTube

Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back ad spending on X in 2025 and 14% say they will pull budgets this year, due to concerns about content on the platform (www.theguardian.com)
2024-9-5

Was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform AI – or a lonely madman? (www.theguardian.com)
2024-9-1 AI

Venezuelan journalists are using AI avatars to host daily newscasts without putting themselves at risk, amid President Nicolás Maduro's media crackdown (www.theguardian.com)
2024-8-28 AI

WISPAP says Pakistan's internet speeds have dropped 30%-40% over the past few weeks; many in tech believe the government is testing an internet firewall (www.theguardian.com)
2024-8-21

Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on Truth Social that show Taylor Swift and her fans vowing their support for his campaign; Swift hasn't endorsed Trump (www.theguardian.com)
2024-8-20 Trump AI

Dating apps are struggling as users seek organic ways to meet; Match Group reported a decline in the total number of paying users for seven straight quarters (www.theguardian.com)
2024-8-18

Keir Starmer confirms UK's Online Safety Act will be reviewed after London mayor Sadiq Khan said the law was “not fit for purpose” after far-right riots (www.theguardian.com)
2024-8-9 Far-right London

Insurer Parametrix estimates that the global outage sparked by CrowdStrike's faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, $5.4B (www.theguardian.com)
2024-7-25 Microsoft

Irish government data: data centers in Ireland used 21% of its electricity in 2023, up 20% YoY, more than the 18% of electricity used by all urban homes (www.theguardian.com)
2024-7-24 Ireland

A look at Apate, a conversational bot developed by Macquarie University's Cyber Security Hub in Australia to keep scam callers on the line while collecting data (www.theguardian.com)
2024-7-7 Australia

Australia's eSafety Commissioner waters down child abuse and terror content detection rules on E2E encrypted services, after a push back from tech companies (www.theguardian.com)
2024-6-21 Australia Terrorism Child Abuse

How Apple added support for automatic transcript generation in the Podcast app, a feature highly requested by both disabled users and podcast creators (www.theguardian.com)
2024-6-17 Apple

Indie games were the real stars of the Summer Game Fest 2024; the top 10 bestselling games of 2024 so far on Steam in terms of units sold are almost all indie (www.theguardian.com)
2024-6-15

A profile of French secondhand tech marketplace Back Market, which has raised €930M+, generated €320M in 2023 sales, up 45% YoY, and had 4.5M new users in 2023 (www.theguardian.com)
2024-6-12 France

Meta approved AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election that spread disinfo and incited religious violence; civil groups submitted them as a test (www.theguardian.com)
2024-5-21 India Facebook AI

How a rightwing smear campaign against NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher, who is on Signal Foundation's board, led Elon Musk to malign Signal (www.theguardian.com)
2024-5-19 Elon Musk

How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut (www.theguardian.com)
2024-5-19 China Microsoft AI

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