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The FBI says it is investigating an alleged Trump campaign hack, after the campaign claimed that sensitive internal documents were leaked and blamed Iran (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-13 Trump FBI Iran

A look at Front Porch Forum, which counts nearly half of Vermont's adults as active members and prioritizes careful moderation and civility over engagement (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-12

An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-11 Google YouTube

Trump Media, Truth Social's parent company that has a ~$5B market cap, reports Q2 revenue down 30% YoY to $837K; Trump owns 59.9% of Trump Media's common stock (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-10 Trump

The Google monopoly ruling dealt a blow to one of Big Tech's arguments against regulation: that 19th-century antitrust laws can't address modern tech innovation (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-9 Google

A look at AI age scanners, which websites use to verify a person's age by analyzing their facial patterns via webcam to help safeguard kids online (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-8 AI

In a letter, the secretaries of state from PA, WA, MI, NM, and MN ask Elon Musk to change X's AI assistant Grok to stop it from spreading false election info (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-6 AI Elon Musk

An analysis of 200K+ English-language AI conversations: 21% of people use chatbots for creative writing, 18% for homework help, 17% for search, and 15% for work (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-5 AI chatbot

A look at the flood of “fancam” videos and memes about Kamala Harris on short-form video platforms, echoing “meme armies” that have supported Donald Trump (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-7-26 Trump

We need a US-led global coalition of like-minded countries and a new strategy to ensure that a democratic vision for AI prevails over an authoritarian one (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-7-25 AI

One defective CrowdStrike update for Windows breaking global systems resurfaces concerns about Microsoft's monopoly in government and enterprise IT systems (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-7-21 Microsoft

A look at draft AI policies from Trump allies at the America First Policy Institute and the Heritage Foundation that target “burdensome” AI regulations (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-7-17 Trump U.S. AI

Sources: some of OpenAI's safety team felt pressured to speed through a safety protocol to meet GPT-4o's launch; Open AI says it “didn't cut corners” on safety (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-7-12 AI

The FTC bans teen messaging app NGL from serving users under 18, a first; NGL agreed to pay $5M and stop marketing to kids and teens to settle the FTC lawsuit (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-7-10

TikTok launches an in-app experience to celebrate Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, giving prizes to users who complete 11 weeks of tasks, following Instagram in April (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-6-20 Instagram

The California Labor Commissioner's Office fines Amazon $5.9M for violating a 2022 state law by failing to properly inform workers of quotas at two warehouses (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-6-19 Amazon California

Leaked documents reveal life-threatening issues at Amazon's primary-care service One Medical, raising concerns about Amazon's frugal approach to health care (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-6-16 Amazon

Brad Smith tells a US House committee that Microsoft “accepts responsibility” for security errors, its business in China served US interests, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-6-14 China Microsoft

Q&A with Tim Cook on how AI will help users “save time”, sticking to Apple's values, the Apple Intelligence name, hallucinations, OpenAI, journalism, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-6-11 AI Apple Intelligence Tim Cook

Pika, which offers AI tools to generate and edit videos, raised $80M from Spark, Lightspeed, and others at a $470M valuation, taking its total funding to $135M (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-6-5 AI

A look at “prebunking”, exposing people to low doses of misinfo with explanations to develop “mental antibodies” against disinfo, amid AI's threat to elections (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-5-28 AI

Documents and sources: OpenAI hired an actress to create ChatGPT's Sky voice months before Sam Altman contacted Scarlett Johansson (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-5-23

Documents: cops in Austin and San Francisco, where police are banned from facial recognition, asked other towns to run photos of suspects through their systems (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-5-21 San Francisco Facial Recognition

Youth advocacy group Encode Justice unveils 22 policy recommendations to ensure AI protects the “lives, rights, and livelihoods” of young people by 2030 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-5-17 AI

Eight TikTok creators sued the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, arguing it violates their First Amendment rights (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-5-15 Ban

How a new generation of tech founders and VCs are quietly pilgrimaging to the Gulf states' sovereign wealth funds, after some shunned Middle Eastern funding (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-5-14

Google's rollout of AI generated summaries in search will threaten web publishers; Gartner predicts traffic to the web from search engines will fall 25% by 2026 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-5-14 Google AI

The FCC warns that rural areas may lose cell service if Congress does not fill a $3B funding shortfall for US carriers to replace Huawei and ZTE equipment (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-5-4

How an informal supper club became a US tech lobbying force, helping draft the TikTok bill; sources: the group plans to draft an EO to reverse Biden's AI rules (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-5-1 AI

US NTIA head Alan Davidson says Starlink is an option in extremely remote areas where running fiber is pricey, as part of the $42B high speed internet program (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-5-1

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