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News Apr 22 2025

Meta Will Use AI to Place Teens Into Stricter Account Settings

Meta is expanding its age-verification tools by using AI to detect teenaged users and then automatically placing them into more restrictive Teen Account settings even if the user entered an adult birthday. The company said in a blog post Monday that it will proactively identify accounts it suspects belong to teens and move them into […]

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News Mar 17 2025

Tim Berners-Lee Wants to Know: ‘Who Does AI Work For?’

CNet At the South by Southwest conference, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, an ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate, raised the question of who AI works for. Even if AI models are reliable, accurate, and unbiased, there will be concerns about whether company or user interests are paramount. Said Berners-Lee, “I want AIs to work […]

News Sep 23 2024

AI Is Evolving Faster Than Experts Imagined, Including for Bill Gates

Gates, in an ABC-TV interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier this month, shared his thoughts on just how big a deal he expects generative AI systems to be, saying he sees the tech enhancing myriad aspects of society.

News Aug 8 2024

Kamala Harris Picks Tim Walz for Vice President: What This Could Mean for Tech Issues, Student Loans

Walz has emphasized the importance of government investment in technology. He could also continue the push to make deepfakes illegal — Walz last year signed into Minnesota law a deepfake bill that makes it a criminal offense to disseminate non-consensual deepfake images.

News Jun 11 2024

After Heavy Criticism of Windows Recall, Microsoft Changes Tack on the AI Tool

Microsoft has made the AI feature opt-in for Copilot PCs and pulled the related Windows release from its developer channel.

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