Zuckerberg’s LA Trial Appearance Mark Zuckerberg just testified in an LA trial, and it’s getting ugly. He’s facing claims that his platform’s addictive algorithms and design hurt teens. The plaintiffs want to narrow Section 230, which currently protects platforms from

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OpenAI’s Latest Move OpenAI just dropped a new ChatGPT Lockdown Mode, and it’s about time. This feature is designed to stop the AI from doling out dodgy mental health advice. Because, let’s face it, the last thing you need is

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Etsy’s Numbers Don’t Add Up Etsy’s stock price just jumped, and it’s a bit of a mystery. The company’s fourth-quarter revenue and gross merchandise sales fell short of what analysts were expecting. Depop Deal Saves the Day But it seems

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ChatGPT’s Dubious Doctoring ChatGPT’s giving mental health advice to users, and it’s a recipe for disaster. What’s going to happen when people start relying on a language model for their emotional well-being? It’s not like it’s going to replace human

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Zuckerberg Takes the Hot Seat Mark Zuckerberg faced tough questions in a high-stakes trial that could shake up the social media industry. The Meta CEO revealed that his company consulted with stakeholders about keeping beauty filters on the platform –

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Musk’s Latest Mess X is facing a new EU privacy investigation, and it’s not hard to see why. The company’s Grok chatbot has been generating nonconsensual deepfake images on the platform, because what could possibly go wrong with that? The

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Pretty Soon, Denver Won’t Be the Smartest City in the Room Palantir, the software analytics firm that’s always been a bit of an enigma, is picking up and moving its headquarters to Miami. It’s the latest big-name business to make

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Alibaba’s New Play Alibaba Group just dropped its latest AI model series, Qwen3.5, and it’s packing some serious agentic capabilities. It’s about time, too, considering the competition in China’s AI space is getting fiercer by the minute. What’s the Big

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TikTok’s Rocky Start Doesn’t Translate to User Loss It’s official: TikTok’s US joint venture has weathered its turbulent rollout without a mass user exodus. Concerns that users would ditch the platform en masse now seem wildly exaggerated. A Reality Check

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Bitcoin’s Bad Day Bitcoin’s price has tanked, and it’s taking other cryptocurrencies down with it. But here’s the thing: it’s not all doom and gloom. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have seen outflows, but it doesn’t look like investors are hitting the

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