I Love Facebook. That’s Why I’m Suing Meta. We must be able to create a more civic-minded internet, with tools that would empower users to better control what they see. 05/4/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
AI not to blame for strange Google Play Twitter thread The thread that followed was absolutely wild. Each tweet featured an image of Sonic along with a caption spelling out what year the image was depicting — but each caption cited ... 05/4/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
Google trial wraps up as judge weighs landmark US antitrust claims WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - Google and the U.S. Justice Department wrapped up closing arguments on Friday over claims that the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) , opens new tab unit has unlawfully dominated web ... 05/3/2024 - 4:49 am | View Link
U.S. Antitrust Case Against Google Is Just the Start As the Justice Department’s case against Google nears an end, the federal government has more suits in the pipeline trying to rein in Big Tech. 05/2/2024 - 10:06 pm | View Link
Japan’s Former PM Aso to Meet Trump as US Election Looms Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is set to meet former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night in the US, according to a person familiar with the matter. The visit by Aso, the deputy head ... 04/22/2024 - 9:33 pm | View Link
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."