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Meta adds parental controls for AI-teen interactions Associated Press · By BARBARA ORTUTAY Meta is adding parental controls for kids' interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots — including the ability to turn off one-on-one chats with...

Sora is blocking people from nabbing celebrity and public figure usernames Fast Company · BY Rebecca Heilweil Donald Trump likes posting deepfakes, but it's not clear whether politicians will be welcomed to the app. As OpenAI rolls out its new social media app... Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP simonwillison.net · Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models:Claude can now use Skills to improve... Spotify moves further into AI music with Sony, Universal, Warner partnership CNBC · Jaures Yip Spotify announced Thursday that it will be partnering with Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, as well as independent …

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Microsoft's next Windows 11 AI gamble: Just say 'Hey Copilot' Engadget · Devindra Hardawar Over a decade since Microsoft tried to make talking to Cortana on PCs a thing -- and spectacularly failed in the process -- the Windows giant is taking... AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants The Wall Street Journal. · Jennifer Hiller Tech companies in the AI race need power, and lots of it. They aren't waiting around for the archaic U.S. power grid to catch up. In West Texas,... Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials 404 Media · Joseph Cox Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone … AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs Nieman Foundation · Ben Paviour A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they're getting help from Google. Last year, Icelandic teacher María... Why So Many People Are Seduced by ChatGPT The Atlantic · By Vauhini Vara What makes OpenAI's chatbot so dangerous? It's a fictional character without an author. Before ChatGPT guided a teenager named Adam Raine through tying...

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