Willis Gibson, 13, a competitive gamer known as ‘blue scuti,’ became the first human to reach the ‘kill screen’ of the Nintendo version
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Google agrees to settle $5 bn lawsuit over ‘incognito’ mode
Google is settling a consumer privacy lawsuit over allegations it tracked the data of users who thought they were browsing the internet privately
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SpaceX launches secretive US military spacecraft on research mission
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket blasted back into space on Thursday night to ferry the US military’s secretive X-37B drone to a research mission
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New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft in copyright clash
Copyright is becoming a major battleground for the AI sector, with content creators increasingly lawyering up
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E-commerce talks at WTO make strong headway
‘This marks a significant milestone:’ Australia, Japan, Singapore, co-convenors of the talks which included about 90 countries
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Pharmacy chain banned from facial recognition use after false identifications
A main concern about artificial intelligence — especially facial recognition — is its potential to discriminate against non-white people
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OpenAI to pay Axel Springer to use journalism in ChatGPT
ChatGPT users will receive summaries of global news content from Axel Springer’s media brands which include Politico and German tabloid Bild
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Are your kids breaking the law by sexting?
Sexting is common practice among young people. But the practice may be illegal — at least according to some experts. Others disagree
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EU wants to know how Meta tackles child sex abuse
Investigation is first step launched under the EU’s Digital Services Act. It aims to understand what Meta has done about child sexual abuse
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Montreal research hub spearheads global AI ethics debate
AI godfather Yoshua Bengio warned AI developments risked “creating a new species capable of making decisions that harm or even endanger humans”