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Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-15 Google

Sources: advisors to Donald Trump expect the president-elect to halt a potential US ban of TikTok, which faces a January 19 deadline to divest (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-13 Trump Ban

Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-10 AI

With Elon Musk's ascension in Trump's orbit, tech leaders on the right hope to steer the second Trump administration, bringing a startup ethos to the government (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-9 Trump Startup Elon Musk

An analysis of 800 US adults' TikTok feeds: female users received ~11% more content about Harris than men did, and saw 40% more Harris campaign videos than men (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-4

Activision-Blizzard says the Call of Duty series has sold more than 500M copies to date; Nadella says Black Ops 6 set a record for first-day players (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-1

OpenAI says ChatGPT Search draws on articles from the WSJ and others it has deals with, and will direct election-related queries to sources like AP and Reuters (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-1

US court docs: in 2022, Apple privately warned TikTok that it had more mature content than was suitable for under-17s and to change its App Store age rating (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-31 Apple

Chinese and Israeli academics predict the AI boom will increase global e-waste by 3% to 12% by 2030, or up to 2.5M metric tons of additional e-waste each year (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-31 China Israel AI

CCDH: of 283 X posts in 2024 with false election claims that Community Notes members had responded to, only 20 had notes with enough votes to be publicly shown (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-31

Sources: in August, Andy Jassy called Donald Trump to outline Amazon's plans, and Trump said Amazon should cut him a large check for his presidential efforts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-31 Trump Amazon

Gallup: ~67% of US workers say they never use AI tools at work, while 4% use them daily and say they see benefits in productivity, efficiency, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-30 AI

An analysis of the top 100 US congressional X accounts: since July 2023, Republicans had nearly all the posts with 20M+ views and saw bigger gains in followers (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-30 Republican

An analysis of the top US congressional X accounts: Republicans had nearly all of the posts with 20M+ views and saw bigger gains in followers since July 2023 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-29 Republican

Online influencers are earning thousands for a single post on behalf of groups backing Harris or Trump, with scant regulatory oversight or public transparency (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-28 Trump

Documents show direct ties between Russia's government and a former Florida deputy sheriff behind a network of fake news sites using AI and targeting US voters (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-24 Russia AI

A profile of Nicole Shanahan, the ex-wife of Sergey Brin and a rising MAGA star; sources: Shanahan and Brin's marriage drove a wedge between Brin and Larry Page (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-24

A look at the Harris campaign's outreach to the tech sector, as it tries to convince companies that she'll chart her own course while avoiding policy specifics (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-21

A look at the Harris campaign's outreach efforts to the tech sector, as it tries to convince that she will chart her own course but avoids specifics on policies (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-21

About $2B has been bet on predicting the next US president on Polymarket, which has excluded US users since 2022 as part of a settlement with federal regulators (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-21

Instagram rolls out new settings to fight sextortion, like hiding teens' follower lists from potential blackmailers; Meta says the crime is becoming more common (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-17 Instagram

The US charges two Sudanese brothers with running Anonymous Sudan, a cyberattack-for-hire gang allegedly responsible for 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-17

Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done enough to crack down on illicit use of Starlink terminals by Russia to power its advance in Ukraine (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-15 Russia Ukraine SpaceX

An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-15 Google Energy

A profile of Ben Nimmo, OpenAI's principal threat investigator who found evidence that Russia and China were using ChatGPT to sway political discourse online (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-15 Russia China

Officials in NC and at FEMA, responding to Hurricane Helene, face a flurry of antisemitic attacks largely on X, where some posts get tens of millions of views (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-9 Hurricane

Investigation: police in 15 US states used facial recognition in 1,000+ cases since 2020 and routinely failed to tell defendants about their use of the software (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-7 Facial Recognition

A profile of Jarod Koopman, who leads IRS Criminal Investigation's cybercrime unit, which has returned $12B+ to victims and the US Treasury in the past 10 years (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-10-2

Neo-Nazis are creating AI videos of Hitler making English versions of his speeches and to rebrand him as “misunderstood” via TikTok, X, Instagram, and YouTube (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-28 AI YouTube Instagram

Meta will also block sharing of Ken Klippenstein's newsletter and other sources with the JD Vance dossier, citing foreign meddling and hacked materials policies (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-9-28

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