Japan enacts law ensuring access to third-party apps
Japan on June 12 enacted legislation to ensure tech giants like Google and Apple give access to third-party smartphone apps…
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Apple to ‘pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT through distribution, not cash
When Apple Inc chief executive officer Tim Cook and his top deputies this week unveiled a landmark arrangement with OpenAI to…
Bill Gates says he was a ‘misfit’ as a kid who clashed with his parents and almost got kicked out of college
In 2024, Bill Gates can count Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg among his friends. However,…
Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles
Broken-down chargers have emerged as the latest obstacle for US automakers in their strenuous effort to convert more Americans to…
ChatGPT a mentor for Japan’s 89-year-old app developer
Japanese 89-year-old Tomiji Suzuki started coding in retirement and is now making apps for the fast-growing elderly demographic, using ChatGPT…
Temu lures more repeat customers than EBay, pressures Amazon
Less than two years after its US debut, Chinese ecommerce upstart Temu is attracting more repeat shoppers than eBay Inc,…
OpenAI’s Mira Murati fires back at Elon Musk describing her company’s new partnership with Apple as ‘creepy spyware’
A top OpenAI executive defended her company against Elon Musk, a day after the billionaire CEO described the integration of…
AI tools are illegally training on real children, including for explicit material
AI’s unstoppable quest for training data is hoovering up growing amounts of increasingly questionable content – including details of children…
Faking an honest woman: Why Russia, China and Big Tech all use faux females to get clicks
When disinformation researcher Wen-Ping Liu looked into China's efforts to influence Taiwan's recent election using fake social media accounts, something…