Meta knowingly exposed minors to online predators and harmful content on Instagram, with internal reports revealing nearly 2 million underage accounts were recommended to 'groomers' over 3 months despite executives' safety concerns.
Elon Musk announces a return to his intense 24/7 work schedule, sleeping at offices and factories, to focus on X/Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX after global X outages and declining Tesla sales raised investor concerns about operational distractions and his political involvement.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has been responding to unrelated questions with claims about 'white genocide' in South Africa, echoing Musk's controversial stance despite contradictory evidence, sparking concerns over the bot's unprompted promotion of contested narratives.
AI algorithms secretly influence what content people see online, shaping political views and social behavior, raising concerns over potential misuse for societal control by powerful entities, prompting calls for transparency and safeguards against dystopian outcomes.
Netflix is embracing the vertical video format popularized by TikTok, testing a new feed in its mobile app that will showcase short clips users can watch, save, or share, as the streaming giant continues to experiment with new ways to engage viewers.
Meta soared with 16% revenue growth to $42.3 billion in Q1 2025, fueled by its expanding user base reaching 3.43 billion daily active people and the success of its AI initiatives, including AI glasses and Meta AI with nearly 1 billion monthly active users.
Pinterest rolls out new detection tools and user controls to combat the flood of AI-generated content overwhelming its platform, introducing labels for AI-modified images and a 'see fewer' option that lets users reduce artificial pins in beauty and art categories after widespread complaints about declining content quality.
Meta holds LlamaCon, unveils consumer AI app and Llama API, challenging OpenAI with open AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen in bid to expand adoption.
Mark Zuckerberg unveils plans for a paid premium tier of Meta's AI app, offering enhanced features like increased compute power and functionality for a fee, while Meta invests up to $72 billion in AI and considers incorporating ads or product recommendations.
Universal basic income (UBI) has emerged as a potential solution to mitigate the economic disruptions caused by AI and automation, with proponents proposing various funding mechanisms like taxing income, consumption, land value, and automation itself, while emphasizing the need for sustainable policies, education/training investments, and addressing social-psychological factors beyond economic …