Amazon’s All-Powerful ‘Buy Box’ Is at the Heart of Its New Antitrust Troubles
The FTC alleges that Amazon rigs the Buy Box contest in its favor, to the detriment of both sellers and consumers. If a seller offers their...
This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You In the Dark
Nearly 1,500 US police departments operate drones but only about a dozen routinely dispatch them in response to 911 calls, according to ACLU research. Drone maker...
Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool
Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty photos...
FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training
No existing law requires federal law enforcement personnel to take training before using face recognition or to follow particular standards when using face recognition in a...
Meta Isn’t Enforcing Its Own Political Ads Policy, While the 2024 US Election Looms
“America’s education system has been hijacked by one side,” Marissa Streit, PragerU’s CEO, told Time earlier this month. Some of the ads found by MMFA on...
People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse
Over the past year or so, you’ve probably had conversations with friends, family, and coworkers about the rise of generative AI capable of making convincing text...
The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient
Abbott’s contention is that machine inventions should be protected to incentivize people to use AI for social good. It shouldn’t matter, he says, whether a drug...
She Sacrificed Her Youth to Get the Tech Bros to Grow Up
Moore’s pace remains relentless because the stakes are so high; she sees suffering around her and knows that not enough has been done about it. Of...
Meet Aleph Alpha, Europe’s Answer to OpenAI
But Andrulis considers LLMs just a stepping stone. “What we are building is artificial general intelligence,” he says. AGI, as it’s known, is widely seen as...
It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
Renee DiResta, technical research manager for the Stanford Internet Observatory, which tracks information campaigns, says the articles and journalist profiles generated as part of the CounterCloud...