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Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis

The people of San Francisco haven’t always been kind to Waymo’s growing fleet of driverless taxis. The autonomous vehicles, which provide tens of thousands of rides each week, have been torched, stomped...

An OpenAI-Backed Nonprofit Gave $1,000 a Month to Poor People. Here’s What They Did With It

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s decade-in-the-making effort to understand how handing out free money affects recipients and the broader economy delivered its first big results Monday. OpenResearch found that when it gave some...

Elon Musk Says He’s Moving X and SpaceX Headquarters to Texas

Elon Musk said he is moving more of his business empire to Texas. Musk-run X and SpaceX will shift their corporate headquarters to the Lone Star State from California, he wrote in...

Google’s Nonconsensual Explicit Images Problem Is Getting Worse

In early 2022, two Google policy staffers met with a trio of women victimized by a scam that resulted in explicit videos of them circulating online—including via Google search results. The women...

YouTube’s Rulings on Gaza War Videos Spark Internal Backlash

A month after Hamas militants from Gaza attacked an Israeli music festival last October, the Hebrew rap duo Ness & Stilla premiered “HarbuDarbu” on YouTube. The military hype song celebrates Israeli forces...

OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges

A Sam Altman–funded nonprofit studying the effects of giving monthly checks of up to $1,000 to lower-income households in the US espouses transparency in its operations. “We aim to share data, findings,...

As Google Targets Advertisers, It Could Learn a Lot From Bing

For years Paula Thompson, vice president of client strategy at the US digital ad agency Optimal, has been helping Plunge sell baths to soak in chilling water by buying ads on Google...

US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren’t Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets

Last year, the White House struck a landmark safety deal with AI developers that saw companies including Google and OpenAI promise to consider what could go wrong when they create software like...

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