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,…
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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…
EU puts digital Earth in orbit for climate-change fight
A software model of Earth, meant to simulate and monitor environmental hazards while findings ways to mitigate climate change, began…
Layoffs, abusive calls, and AI fears: Inside the front lines of Amazon’s ‘customer obsession’ promise
The bad news blindsided Amazon customer service employees across the globe in mid-May: More layoffs had arrived. This time, it…
Frightening log from Titan submersible’s fatal dive declared a fake
Last year, a purported transcript of communications between the Titan submersible and its mother ship circulated widely on the Internet.
Apple partners with OpenAI as it unveils ‘Apple Intelligence’
Apple on June 10 unveiled “Apple Intelligence”, its suite of new AI features for its coveted devices – and a…
Get free, anonymous access to generative AI
The alternative search engine DuckDuckGo, known for its respect for user privacy, is launching a new free, anonymous online service…