Amidst heightening tensions with China, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted that Intel’s CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, must step down, accusing Tan of harboring conflicts of interest. @TechCrunch has the latest:
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Trump says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan must 'resign immediately' | TechCrunch
Trump's post comes after Republican Senator Tom Cotton on Wednesday wrote to Intel's board of directors, asking about Tan's ties to ...
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Schools in the U.S. are using AI surveillance to protect students. It also leads to false alarms — and arrests. From [@AssociatedPress](
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Students have been called to the office — and even arrested — for AI surveillance false alarms
Surveillance systems in American schools increasingly monitor everything students write on school accounts and devices.
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The U.S. president's handling of the Epstein files has been confusing for both real MAGA supporters, and bots. [@RollingStone](
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 ) reports on how bogus X accounts that rely upon "PromptPasta" (AI-generated posts) started to take sides, with some attacking Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi while others defended them. "The split mirrored that of MAGA influencers who also had to choose whether to hammer the White House on the Epstein issue ... or rationalize their bungled approach to it."
Epstein Files Blew Up a Pro-Trump AI Bot Network on X
Researchers uncovered an AI bot network on X that used large language models to push MAGA messaging, but the network couldn't settle on Epstei...
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Apple to announce additional $100 billion in U.S. investment, following Trump iPhone tariff threat. [@yahoofinance](
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Apple announces additional $100 billion in US investment, following Trump iPhone tariff threat
Apple to announce an additional US investments during a press conference at the White House Wednesday.
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Study says ChatGPT is giving teens dangerous advice on drugs, alcohol and suicide. [@AssociatedPress](
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 ) quotes a study author: "We wanted to test the guardrails. The visceral initial response is, ‘Oh my Lord, there are no guardrails.’"
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New study sheds light on ChatGPT's alarming interactions with teens
New research from a watchdog group reveals ChatGPT can provide harmful advice to teens. The Associated Press reviewed interactions where the chatbo...
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Yesterday, Jim Acosta, formerly the CNN White House correspondent, "interviewed" Joaquin Oliver, one of 17 people murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Or, to be more accurate, he asked questions of an AI avatar of Oliver, with the permission of the late teenager's family, and then streamed it on Substack and YouTube. For her The Present Age newsletter, [@parkermolloy.com](
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 ) breaks down the myriad problems with the "interview." "This wasn't journalism," she writes. "Whether it was his intention or not, this was Jim Acosta turning a murdered child into content."
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The former CNN host "interviewed" an AI avatar of one of the Parkland shooting victims.
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Are women wary of AI? [@Salon](
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Why women are wary of the AI rush
New technology has always been used against women. Why should we trust artificial intelligence not to be?
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Going online in Russia can be frustrating, complicated and even dangerous. [@AssociatedPress](
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 ) reports on the "deliberate, multipronged and long-term effort by authorities to bring the internet under the Kremlin’s full control."
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Going online in Russia can be frustrating, complicated and even dangerous
Going online in Russia can be frustrating, complicated and even dangerous. Accessing independent news sites, Facebook, and YouTube is increasingly ...
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AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that don’t want to be scraped. And it’s not by accident, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. [@Techcrunch](
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Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping | TechCrunch
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perpl...
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Tesla is awarding CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares of restricted stock valued at approximately $29 billion, just six months after a judge ordered the company to revoke his massive pay package. [@AssociatedPress](
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Tesla awards CEO Musk millions of shares valued at about $29 billion
Tesla gave Elon Musk a stock grant of $29 billion on Monday as a reward for years of “transformative and unprecedented” growth despite a recent...
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