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I was recently away on holiday in Connemara, Ireland, an area which Oscar Wilde described back in the 19th century as "savage beauty". I can't imagine a whole lot has changed in the 150 years since he visited. It's still wild and rugged with all four seasons regularly experienced in one day. I was staying a few miles outside of
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent, Reuters reported.
Apple on Monday released the first version of Apple Intelligence, its suite of artificial intelligence features that will improve Siri, automatically generate emails and images, and sort notifications, CNBC reported. The new software called Apple Intelligence was released in the developer beta of iOS 18.1. It is also available in similar releases for iPad and Mac. It is currently only
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has waded into one of the thorniest issues facing U.S. politics: deepfake videos, The New York Times reported. On Friday night, Mr. Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X, reposted an edited campaign video for Vice President Kamala Harris that appears to have been digitally manipulated to change the spot’s voice-over
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has expressed “surprise” over social media company X’s decision to use user posts to train an AI chatbot, The Independent reported. Users of X, formerly known as Twitter, expressed outrage after discovering that the company had enabled a system where their posts could be used to train its Grok AI chatbot. Grok, which is
Earlier this week, Billionaire Elon Musk took to his X (formerly Twitter) platform to announce that his xAI company has started training it’s Grok LLM using “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world.” Musk indicated the AI model would be “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric by December this year.” Window’s Central reported. But as it
Microsoft’s latest update to Bing introduces AI-generated answers that take priority on the search results page. Traditional search results are now displayed in a smaller panel to the side. This change leverages large and small language models to match content and enhance user query fulfillment dynamically. While the update aims to improve efficiency, it raises concerns about the visibility of