Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history" when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In their suit, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, […]

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Pennsylvania sues Character.AI, alleging that one of its characters posed as a psychiatrist, as the state seeks to prevent chatbots from impersonating doctors  —  Pennsylvania has sued the artificial intelligence company behind Character.AI to stop its chatbot from posing as doctors.

Microsoft's new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has spent the past couple of months making her mark on the Xbox organization. After focusing on highly requested Xbox console features, reducing the price of Game Pass, and moving Microsoft Gaming back to Xbox, Sharma is reorganizing the Xbox platform team at Microsoft today. The changes will see […]

Before we talk about the technology, we need to talk about what it is taking from us, or teaching us to give away. As journalists and writers covering tech, our job is not only to report what is being built, funded, launched, or regulated. It is also to pay attention to what these systems are […]

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