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Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia  —  Meta is planning something similar for its chatbots later this year.  —  Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents …

An analysis of 1,000+ YouTube Shorts videos recommended to kids: the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos, and many lack disclosures (Arijeta Lajka/New York Times)

Arijeta Lajka / New York Times:
An analysis of 1,000+ YouTube Shorts videos recommended to kids: the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos, and many lack disclosures  —  Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting information …

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters producer explains how Titan X fits into the Monsterverse mythology

The Apple TV series is catching up with the movies while also trying to surprise viewers with a new threat.

Instagram will alert parents if their kids ‘repeatedly’ search for self-harm topics

Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide. Meta says a similar alert system for its AI chatbots is coming later this year. The new Instagram feature sends parents an alert when their child "repeatedly tries to search for terms clearly associated with […]

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new "retirement interview" process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter (Anthropic)

Anthropic:
Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter  —  As we develop increasingly capable AI models, it's currently necessary to deprecate and retire our past models due …