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Big Tech is emitting way, way more greenhouse gas emissions than reported
Reported figures are potentially 600 percent higher than the companies allege.


OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit company
CEO Sam Altman could axe the "unusual" structure.


Apple gets FDA green light on AirPods Pro hearing aid mode
Approval comes mere days after Apple announces the first of its kind software.


Facebook flagged and removed emergency wildfire information as 'spam'
Wildfire season is still raging in the West.


Apple event underwhelming? Wait for the iPhone 17.
The tech giant's strategy is to lock you into its ecosystem.
By Chris Taylor


Microsoft Bing amps up its ability to stop explicit deepfake images from appearing in Search results
It's the first search engine to join StopNCII, an international tool for detecting revenge porn.


X beefs up safety staff, a few dozen people at a time
Content moderation gets a jolt at the social media site.


How much is AI hurting the planet? Big tech won't tell us.
Big tech won't tell you, but let us paint you a picture.
By Chris Taylor


Amazon's 'Remarkable' Alexa will actually be Claude in disguise, report claims
Amazon is tapping into Anthropic's AI smarts for new Alexa.


Meta Horizon Worlds is letting preteens back into the world of virtual hangouts
Parent approval needed.


Elon Musk's Grok heeds misinformation concerns by sending users to Vote.gov
State leaders demanded action. X actually listened.


How Big Tech is approaching explicit, nonconsensual deepfakes
With the question of responsibility up in the air, policies vary.


How the dot-com bubble burst is relevant for the AI era
I watched the dot-com bubble deflate — not pop — from 2000 through 2001. The AI echoes are clear.
By Chris Taylor


The AI bubble has burst. Here's how we know.
Artificial Intelligence investor confidence is collapsing. Who could have possibly predicted this, except everyone in tech?
By Chris Taylor


Apple started paying out its $50 million settlement over MacBook's defective butterfly keyboards
Checks of up to $395 started arriving.


Europe now has a huge AI gap, for better or for worse
Artificial intelligence features will be trickling into the EU very, very slowly.


Google announces new tactics to curb explicit deepfakes
Changes to Google Search aim to limit results for nonconsensual imagery.
By Rebecca Ruiz


Carmakers are still selling drivers' data. U.S. officials demand the FTC investigate.
GM, Honda, and Hyundai collected personal data from internet-connected cars.


TikTok is collecting, sharing user views on issues like abortion, DOJ fires back in ban lawsuit
ByteDance maintains it's never shared American TikTok data abroad.


Apple adopts Biden administration's AI safeguards
The company joined OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and others.


Anti-deepfake legislation just took a major step toward becoming law
The Defiance Act provides a civil path for victims of nonconsensual deepfakes.


Like Microsoft, Massive AT&T outage also happened because of a bad update
What is it with the bad updates lately?


Online child sex abuse material, boosted by AI, is outpacing Big Tech's regulation
Watchdogs say its a "stark vision of the future."

