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Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

Over the past decade, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has wielded his office’s significant resources to investigate well-known tech giants including Google and Meta over how they moderate content and treat rivals....

How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank

On a recent Monday in the West Bank, human rights attorney Diana Buttu found herself stuck in traffic for nine hours to drive a distance less than 10 miles. Israeli authorities had...

Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal

If Google’s generative AI Gemini Assistant chatbot is to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT in popularity in the coming years, it may have to do so without some of the promotional partnerships that helped...

Mira Murati Quit OpenAI. She’s as Optimistic as Ever About AGI

Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati says it could take decades, but AI systems eventually will perform a wide range of cognitive tasks as well as humans do—a prospective technological milestone widely known...

This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos

Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage....

The Future of Online Privacy Hinges on Thousands of New Jersey Cops

In July 2020, a 72-year-old attorney posing as a delivery person rang the doorbell at US district judge Esther Salas’ house in North Brunswick, New Jersey. When the door opened, the attorney...

Google Selling Chrome Won’t Be Enough to End Its Search Monopoly

To dismantle Google’s illegal monopoly over how Americans search the web, the US Department of Justice wants the tech giant to end its lucrative partnership with Apple, share a trove of proprietary...

Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google

Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results. Ecosia’s CEO Christian Kroll would prefer to present more train options, which he considers better for...

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