OpenAI’s Sora joins Meta in pushing AI-generated videos. Some are worried about a flood of "AI slop." [@AssociatedPress]( ) reports: #OpenAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Meta #Technology
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs landmark bill creating AI safety measures. [@AssociatedPress]( ) reports: "Many of the world’s top AI companies are located in California and will have to follow the requirements." #AI #Newsom #California #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology
Amazon is having its fall hardware event on Tuesday, Sept. 30, in New York City, where the company is expected to debut new devices. [@Engadget]( ) shares its best educated guesses at what we’ll see: #Tech #Amazon #Devices #Technology
Electronic Arts has been privately acquired in a $52.5B deal by investors including Saudi Arabia's investment fund (known as PIF), and Jared Kushner. Chairman and CEO Andrew Wilson will stay at the helm, with the acquisition expected to be completed in Q1 FY27, subject to regulatory and stockholder approval. Here's more from GamesIndustry.Biz on exactly who bought the company and some of the reasons employees and gamers are concerned. #Technology #Tech #GameDev #GameDevelopment #Videogames #Gaming #ElectronicArts #EA
Regulators in the U.S. struggle to keep up with the fast-moving and complicated landscape of AI therapy apps. From [@AssociatedPress]( ): "In the absence of stronger federal regulation, some states have begun regulating apps that offer AI 'therapy.'" #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MentalHealth #Therapy #Tech #Technology
As enterprises rush to embed AI into their workflows, the cyberattack surface is expanding. [@Techcrunch]( ) has more: #Tech #CyberSecurity #Hacking #AI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence
Companies are going to great lengths to protect the infrastructure that provides the backbone of the world’s digital services — by burying their data deep underground. [@WIRED]( ) takes us inside the nuclear bunkers, mines, and mountains being retrofitted as data centers. #Tech #Science #Data #Technology #DataCenters
From tech giants to startups, South Korea plans to gain the upper hand vs. OpenAI, Google and others with homegrown AI. [@Techcrunch]( ) has more: #Tech #AI #SouthKorea #Google #OpenAI #ArtificialIntelligence
Trump allies win big in reported TikTok deal. @Agence France-Presse [🤖] reports: Meanwhile, China is being awfully quiet, as CNBC reports: #TikTok #SocialMedia #Trump #China #Tech #Technology
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to transfer ownership of TikTok's U.S. operation to American investors including Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Rupert Murdoch. Details of the deal are still unknown. Here's more on the story from [@WIRED]( ). Asked by a reporter on Thursday if the deal would mean more MAGA content on TikTok, Trump responded, “If I could, I’d make the algorithm 100% MAGA related. But it’s not going to work out that way unfortunately. Everyone’s going to be treated fairly.” [Story may be paywalled] #Technology #Tech #TikTok #SocialMedia #SocialMediaPlatforms #ByteDance #TrumpAdministration