Poland says a fake news report on mobilizing 200,000 men was likely the work of Russia

Officials in Poland say that a fake news report saying that Prime Minister Donald Tusk was mobilizing 200,000 men starting on July 1 was probably the work of Russia-sponsored hackers and was designed to interfere with the upcoming European Parliament election.

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Tests find AI tools readily create election lies from the voices of well-known political leaders

A digital civil rights group found that artificial intelligence tools can be easily used to churn out election lies in the voices of top American and European politicians.

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Chinese online retailer Temu latest to face EU’s strictest level of digital scrutiny

The European Union is adding Chinese online retailer Temu to its list of platforms facing the bloc’s highest level of digital scrutiny.

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Trump Media shares recover after post conviction sell-off

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, are rebounding before the opening bell after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial.

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One Tech Tip: Want to turn off Meta AI? You can’t — but there are some workarounds

If you use Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram.

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China to impose controls on exports of aviation and aerospace equipment

China's Commerce Ministry has announced it will restrict exports of aviation and aerospace-related equipment and technology beginning July 1.

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Google to invest $2 billion in Malaysian data center and cloud hub

Google plans to invest $2 billion in Malaysia, developing its first data center and a Google Cloud hub in the latest big foray by a U.S. tech giant in the Southeast Asian country.

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Authorities arrest man allegedly running “likely world’s largest ever” cybercrime botnet

An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade.

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California advances measures targeting AI discrimination and deepfakes

California lawmakers have advanced a host of artificial intelligence proposals that would protect jobs, build public trust, fight algorithmic discrimination, and outlaw deepfakes involving elections or pornography.

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Seattle celebrity CEO Dan Price back at Gravity Payments after resigning

Celebrity CEO Dan Price has returned to Gravity Payments, the Seattle-based company he started and later resigned from amid allegations of sexual misconduct. 

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A robot will soon try to remove melted nuclear fuel from Japan’s destroyed Fukushima reactor

The operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has demonstrated how a remote-controlled robot would retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from one of three damaged reactors later this year.

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T-Mobile to buy almost all of U.S Cellular in deal worth $4.4 billion with debt

T-Mobile is buying U.S. Cellular’s wireless operations and certain spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4 billion, giving U.S. Cellular customers more options on cellular plans and lower prices.

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OpenAI forms safety committee as it starts training latest artificial intelligence model

OpenAI says it’s setting up a new safety and security committee and has begun training a new artificial intelligence model to supplant the GPT-4 system that underpins its ChatGPT chatbot.

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Japan’s Toyota shows ‘an engine born’ with green fuel despite global push for battery electric cars

Japanese automaker Toyota introduced plans to cast a futuristic spin on the traditional internal combustion engine.

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Russia will build Central Asia’s first nuclear power plant in an agreement with Uzbekistan

Russia and Uzbekistan have signed an accord for Moscow to build a small nuclear power plant in the Central Asian country.

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AI’s black boxes just got a little less mysterious

Researchers at the AI company Anthropic claim to have found clues about the inner workings of large language models.

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What to stream this week: Willie Nelson, Chip & Joanna Gaines, Jim Henson and Benedict Cumberbatch

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a new album from Willie Nelson, Benedict Cumberbatch playing a curmudgeon puppeteer in “Eric” on Netflix and home improvement gurus Chip and Joanna Gaines fix up a mid-century modern lake house on HGTV.

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In one North Carolina county, it’s ‘growth, growth, growth.’ But will Biden reap the benefit?

Just 81,000 people live in rural Chatham County in North Carolina, where there are more than 1,000 farms.

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China’s latest AI chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s political ideology

China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by.

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Former UK Post Office boss breaks down in inquiry over scandal that saw hundreds wrongly convicted

The former head of Britain’s Post Office Paula Vennells has broken down in tears on several occasions while giving evidence to an inquiry into one of the country’s biggest miscarriages of justice that saw hundreds of branch managers wrongly convicted of theft or fraud because of a faulty computer system.

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UN countries adopt treaty to better trace origins of genetic resources under global patent system

U.N. member countries have concluded a new treaty to help ensure that traditional knowledge about genetic resources — like medicines derived from exotic plants in the Andes mountains — is properly traced.

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White House pushes tech industry to shut down market for sexually abusive AI deepfakes

President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology.

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Takeaways: How intelligence agencies’ are cautiously embracing generative AI

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, convinced they’ll otherwise be smothered in data as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet.

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US intelligence agencies’ embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, believing they’ll otherwise be smothered by an avalanche of data as surveillance tech further blankets the planet.

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EV maker Tesla breaks ground on Megapack energy storage battery factory in Shanghai

Chinese state media have reported that electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its Megapack energy storage batteries.

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Nvidia to release earnings as AI demand continues unabated

Rival computer chip makers are racing to catch up but Nvidia still holds a leading edge in powering the artificial intelligence boom as it prepares to release its latest financial results Wednesday.

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Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy takes a 7.7% stake in Buzzfeed

Former Republican presidential candidate and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has purchased a minority stake in Buzzfeed.

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How is the violent unrest in New Caledonia impacting global nickel prices?

Global nickel prices have been soaring since violence erupted in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia last week.

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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella wants us to stop treating AI like humans

The CEO's remarks hint at an ongoing debate over how much to humanize AI services at a time when the technology is responding in ways that appear more human-like.

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On Instagram, a jewelry ad draws solicitations for sex with a 5-year-old

Advertisers of merchandise for young girls find that adult men can become their unintended audience. In a test ad, convicted sex offenders inquired about a child model.

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World leaders plan new agreement on AI at virtual summit co-hosted by South Korea, UK

World leaders are expected to adopt a new agreement on artificial intelligence when they gather virtually Tuesday to discuss AI’s potential risks but also ways to promote its benefits and innovation.

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New York-Dublin video link is back up after shutdown for bad behavior

A video link between New York City and Dublin that was shut down due to inappropriate behavior on both sides of the Atlantic has reopened with new security measures.

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In Hollywood, video games are the new superheroes

Spurred by hits such as The Super Mario Bros. Movie, dozens of video-game franchises have been optioned or produced for film and television over the last two years.

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Nickel-rich Indonesia pitches EV battery plant plan to Elon Musk

Indonesia’s top investment official says the government has proposed building an electric vehicle battery plant to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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Things to know about an AI safety summit in Seoul

South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence.

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Tech giants start to treat Southeast Asia like next big thing | Analysis

After decades of playing second fiddle to China and Japan, the region of about 675 million people is drawing more tech investment than ever.

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Companies are trying to attract more smartphone users across Africa. But there are risks

Internet-enabled phones can play a unique role in sub-Saharan Africa, where infrastructure and public services are among the world’s least developed.

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Elon Musk arrives in Indonesia’s Bali to launch Starlink satellite internet service

Elon Musk has arrived in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali to launch Starlink satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation.

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TikTok attempts to rein in weight loss posts

TikTok enacted what some experts called one of the most well-defined policies by a social media company yet on weight and dieting posts. Here's what's changing.

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A former OpenAI leader says safety has ‘taken a backseat to shiny products’ at the AI company

A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said on Friday that product safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company.

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OpenAI, Reddit teaming in deal that will bring Reddit’s content to ChatGPT

OpenAI and Reddit are teaming up in a deal that will bring the social media platform’s content to ChatGPT.

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Meta is shuttering Workplace, its enterprise version of Facebook

Meta once had ambitious plans for Workplace, and viewed it as a way to make money as well as a chance to extend Facebook's reach by infusing the product into work and office settings.

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Facebook and Instagram face fresh scrutiny under the European Union’s strict digital regulations

The European Union opened fresh investigations into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that they’re failing to protect children online, in violation of the bloc’s strict digital regulations for social media platforms.

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One Tech Tip: Protecting your car from the growing risk of keyless vehicle thefts

Auto technology has evolved.

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A second scourge is battering Brazil’s flooded south: Disinformation

The vast flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state has yet to subside.

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Billionaire Frank McCourt says he’s putting together a consortium to buy TikTok

Billionaire businessman and real estate mogul Frank McCourt says he’s putting together a consortium to purchase TikTok’s U.S. business.

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Voice-cloning technology bringing a key Supreme Court moment to ‘life’

The use of a voice-cloning technology marrying old audio clips to an actor's narration is bringing an historic U.S. Supreme Court decision to life.

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Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on AI after finishing yearlong review

A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and also put safeguards around it.

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Who’s laughing? LateNighter, a digital news site about late-night TV, hopes to buck media trends

The media industry is crumbling, and late-night comedy on television has less than half of the audience than it had a decade ago.

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US investigating Waymo autonomous vehicles after reports of crashes or possible traffic violations

The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo’s self-driving vehicles.

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