Google, Meta, and TikTok shut down a Russian drone factory’s accounts over bombshell investigation

Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Posts on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok were taken down following an investigation by The Asso

Two Virginia congressional candidates debated an AI chatbot. It was weirdly normal

On Thursday night an AI chatbot participated in a ">political debate with candidates for a congressional seat, and, despite a few technical glitches, performed well. There was no robot voice, no off-topic tangents, no personal attacks, no odd “they’re eating the dogs” hallucinations. 

The chatbot was a stand-in for the man c

TikTok approved election misinformation ads despite its own ban, says watchdog

Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads, according to a report pub

Samsung’s $17 billion Texas chip factory faces another setback. Here’s why

Samsung Electronics has postponed taking deliveries of ASML chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory in Texas as it has yet to win any major customers for the project, three people familiar with the matter said.

Samsung has been also holding off on placing orders to some other suppliers for the $17 billion fact

Ultimate guide to the best AI tools to make your life and work easier

Generative AI tools have been popping up everywhere and becoming second nature to use. That’s thanks in part, to a familiar user experience. “If you’re using a generative AI model, you enter a prompt describing the output you’d like, and the program gives it to you,” explained Danica Lo, “whether it’s in the form of text, code, images, or—increasingly—sound and video.”

The most popular is ChatGPT, said Lo, a contributing editor at Fast Company

.AI domain names are the next big thing on the internet. That’s great news for Anguilla

The tropical British territory of Anguilla wasn’t known to many outside those who sought out its sun-kissed beaches. That was until the generative AI revolution. Suddenly, the island of around 16,000 people became a key broker in the future of our digital lives.

In the 1990s, it was given the domain n

Meta partners with horror movie maker Blumhouse Productions to test Movie Gen

Facebook owner Meta said on Thursday it had teamed up with Blumhouse Productions, the Hollywood company behind popular horror films such as The Purge and Get Out, to put its new

New Chrome extension aims to detect deepfake AI-generated voices—but it’s far from perfect

Deepfakes have already been a problem in the 2024 presidential election—and could potentially become a bigger one as Nov. 5 draws near. But a new Chrome browser extension claims it can help people determine which audio clips they hear are legitimately from the candidates (and others) and which are fake.

The

‘I figured I ought not to waste the dinner credit’: Meta laid off staffers for taking advantage of the company’s meal scheme

Meta has sacked a number of staff for abusing the company’s $25 meal scheme to order everything but lunch—including acne pads, toothbrushes and wine glasses. 

The sacking of almost 30 staff in the company’s Los Angeles office, first reported by the Financial Times, included high-paid engineers earning six-figure salaries. 

One user of the anonymous chat app Blind wrote that they us

MrBeast’s YouTube dominance takes a dip

MrBeast’s YouTube growth has hit a rough patch. 

On Saturday, MrBeast uploaded a new video. “ ">7 Days Exploring An Underground City” amassed 56.5 million views within four days. For any other YouTuber, those numbers would be seismic. But, for YouTube’s most subscribed-to creator, the numbers are dramatically lower than his averages—and could be a sign of broader decline. 

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