Seniors 65 years old and over have been outnumbering children aged 5 or under across the world since 2023, the Census Bureau reports. Changes likes these are picking up speed, while demographers try to catch up.
Microsoft agreed to a set of safety and privacy principles for AI in schools a week after two major school systems announced a ban on student-facing AI. In a new agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the US, and its New York City affiliate the United Federation of […]
Anthropic says power users are key to its business – it’s prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of these same customers say Anthropic misled them into believing they’d get more out of a top-tier pricing subscription than they did. In an expanded class action lawsuit filed […]
The White House has taken down its racist Tetris ripoff days after launching a website dedicated to “arcade” games, as spotted earlier by Kotaku. The Tetris clone, called “Build the Wall,” involved stacking different-sized blocks to prevent a “zombie border siege.” It’s not clear why the White House removed the title, though the Tetris Company […]
Taiwan’s top investigative agency has been tracking Chinese businesses operating on the island without proper authority and shutting them down. These companies have been hiring Taiwanese experts to help with their semiconductor research and development.
The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed “arcade” games, some of which are racist – and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda. The Tetris Company has already responded to “Build the Wall,” which is obviously […]
On Tuesday, the House, like the Senate had done a month ago, voted for a continuing resolution that would delay the new White House OMB rule until at least December 11.
Microsoft’s Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book authors. As part of the lawsuit’s discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot […]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is probing Tesla’s safety procedures a day after it launched a ride service in Austin using the new model.
TikTok backed out of a congressional committee’s “public roundtable” set for this month over concerns it would be asked about child safety practices, the chair of the committee said. After negotiating “in good faith” to bring TikTok’s chief security officer before the House Select Committee on China to answer questions about Chinese government access to […]