Artificial Intelligence

Italy’s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI must do to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month, when it suspected the AI chatbot service of violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ordered the U.S.-based company to stop processing locals’ data. …

Snap has expanded its Sounds library, which lets users use song clips in Snaps and Stories, with several music labels. The company listed US-based UnitedMasters, Netherlands-based BUMA/STEMRA, and SUISA Digital Licensing AG as participating labels. SUISA: Switzerland, AKKA/LAA: Latvia, Albautor: Albania, Armauthor: Armenia, Autodia: Greece, COMP: Pakistan, EAÜ: Estonia, GCA: …

Image generation moves fast. Though diffusion models used by popular tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion may seem like the best we have, the next thing is always coming, and OpenAI may have hit on it with “consistency models,” which can already do simple tasks an order of magnitude faster …

After a year, Twitter appears to have unblocked Russian government accounts. The Elon Musk-owned platform now shows Putin and Russian Embassy accounts in search results. The Telegraph also noticed the Russian authorities’ timetables and recommendations. According to a former Twitter employee, a policy change may have caused this. Twitter has …

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The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is reviewing Amazon’s planned acquisition of iRobot. The CMA is seeking stakeholder input to determine if Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot would cause a “significant decrease of competition” in the U.K. The CMA hasn’t set a timeline for announcing its investigative decision. Smart home …

San Francisco’s MobileCoin CPO Robert Lee was stabbed to death. Around 2:35 a.m. Tuesday, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a stabbing along the 300 block of Main Street in SoMa. He died in the hospital. NBC Bay Area later reported that 43-year-old Robert Lee was stabbed. MobileCoin told …

14 new free, ad-supported channels with TV episodes and movies from the Warner Bros. content collection have been introduced to the Roku Channel. Warner Bros. Discovery said earlier this year that it has agreed to license 2,000 hours of programming to Roku and Tubi. The material is currently accessible on …

Today, Substack announced the launch of a new Notes feature that will enable users to exchange articles, quotations, comments, photographs, links, and thoughts. The platform’s notes are shown in a dedicated short-form stream that resembles Twitter. A note that has been shared is similar to writing a Tweet. A like …

The renowned hacker marketplace Genesis Market, which was used to buy stolen passwords and digital browser fingerprints, has been taken down by American law enforcement. Although the FBI has not yet made an announcement about the takedown, code-named “Operation Cookie Monster,” Genesis Market domains are currently showing a warning that …