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Amazon unveils Q, its AI chatbot for workers::Available to AWS users, Amazon Q aims to help workers draft emails, generate content, and fix bugs.

The frantic battle over OpenAI shows that money triumphs in the end::Private businesses, motivated by profit, can’t be relied on to police themselves against the horrors unfettered AI could bring

A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab: Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial sur…::Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial...

Lawsuit filed by 33 US states alleges Meta knew Facebook and Instagram’s ‘addictive features harmed young people’s physical and mental health’::Meta is being sued by the attorneys general of 33 separate US states over allegations that it intentionally created and launched features on its Facebook and Instagram social...

Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in ‘company reset’::Videogame software provider Unity Software will eliminate 265 jobs or 3.8% of its global workforce and end an agreement with a digital video effects company founded by the “Lord of the Rings” director as part of a “reset,” the company said on Tuesday.

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Meta Joins Google In Turning Its Back On The Open Web, And Embracing Unconstitutional Mandates That Pretend To ‘Protect The Children’::A month ago we wrote about Google effectively “pulling up the ladder” on the open internet by embracing age verification mandates as part of a regulatory approach to child safety. As we...

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After internal chaos earlier this month, OpenAI replaced the women on its board with men. As it plans to add more seats, Timnit Gebru, Sasha Luccioni, and other AI luminaries tell WIRED why they wouldn't join.

FCC Moves Slowly To Update Definition Of Broadband To Something Still Pathetic::For decades, the FCC has maintained an arguably pathetic definition of “broadband,” allowing the telecom industry to under-deliver substandard access. And despite some new rhetoric from the agency under Biden, that doesn’t appear to be changing...

There's a ton of trepidation surrounding AI in the creative industry, but one start-up is trying to give voice actors a way to use the technology ethically - and have control over the way their voices are used.