The Justice Department says federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices, according to Reuters. A 2022 law banned federal employees from using the short-form video app on those devices, but the Justice Department reportedly says the law no longer applies, thanks to a deal that transfers ownership of TikTok’s U.S. operations to
A coalition of 12 state attorneys general is suing to block the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), alleging the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors and audiences. The coalition, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, maintains that the acquisition violates the Clayton Act, which prohibits mergers that could
The EU announced on Friday that Meta must review the addictive design features of Facebook and Instagram or face a fine. The tech giant breaches the Digital Services Act by targeting features such as infinite scrolling, autoplay, push notifications and highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said. The Commission says these features feed the
OpenAI is releasing its latest advanced LLM, Sol, for wide public access. Sol is considered to be at least on par with Anthropic’s Fable, a model whose capabilities (or ownership) so stressed the White House that it was briefly banned from public access. So how did these models get the go-ahead for release? Short answer:
The New York Times and The Daily News claim that OpenAI has been lying about its ability to search customer chat log data and training data sets for its copyrighted works. It’s the latest escalation in a two-year lawsuit against the AI firm for allegedly violating copyright law by training its generative AI models on
India on Thursday approved a manufacturing joint venture between China’s Vivo and local manufacturer Dixon Technologies, a move that could mark the next phase of the country’s smartphone manufacturing boom after Apple helped turn India into a global smartphone production hub. The approval allows Vivo to continue a long-delayed manufacturing partnership first announced in December