Spain’s leftist government unveiled a bill extending a requirement for influencers to publish corrections in a bid to fight disinformation
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Schools targeted with AI learning apps despite experts’ doubts
Only six per cent of US secondary school teachers polled by Pew Research Center thought using AI in education would do more good than harm
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Facing teen suicide suits, Character.AI rolls out safety measures
The platform will now automatically flag suicide-related content and direct users to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
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Australia to force tech titans to pay for news
Australia will force Meta and Google to pay for news shared on their platforms under a new scheme unveiled Thursday, threatening to tax them if they refuse to strike deals with local media.
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Major Canadian media sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions
Media including The Globe and Mail newspaper and the CBC accused OpenAI of breaching copyrights by ‘scraping large swaths of content’ and profiting from the use of this content
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Social media companies slam Australia’s under-16 ban
The legislation, approved by parliament on Thursday, orders social media firms to take ‘reasonable steps’ to prevent young teens from having accounts
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Australia passes landmark social media ban for under 16s
The legislation ordering social media firms to take “reasonable steps” to prevent young teens from having accounts was passed in the Senate with 34 votes in favour and 19 against
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UN slams ‘stubborn digital divides’ keeping 1 in 3 offline
While 93 per cent of people in high-income countries were estimated to be using the internet this year, only 27 per cent of people in low-income countries were online: report
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US-Google face off as ad tech antitrust trial comes to close
The trial in a Virginia federal court is Google’s second US antitrust case now under way as the US government tries to rein in the power of big tech
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Australia ditches plans to fine tech giants for misinformation
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said she had dumped the bill after running into significant opposition in the country’s Senate