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Twitch draws pro-Palestinian influencers as rival sites back off politics

Politics on Twitch is thriving as other social media sites try to discourage political posts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/31/twitch-palestinians-fundraiser-politics/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

How to opt out of having your data ‘train’ ChatGPT and other AI chatbots

The reality: You are helping AI learn, whether you want to or not. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/31/opt-out-ai-training-meta-chatgpt/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Google scales back AI search answers after it told users to eat glue

The tech giant put AI-generated answers at the top of search results for most people in the United States two weeks ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/30/google-halt-ai-search/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

IRS Direct File is here to stay. All 50 states are invited.

The Biden administration announced plans to renew the experimental free tax filing service that it tested this year, and to make it available in more than 12 states. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/30/direct-file-irs-taxes/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Judge stunned as man with suspended license joins Zoom hearing while driving

“Mr. Harris, are you driving?” the judge asked Corey Harris, who said he was on his way to the doctor’s office during a hearing on his suspended license. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/30/zoom-court-hearing-suspended-driving-license/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Tesla settles another defect case, avoiding jury for second time this year

Tesla has settled another case alleging a defect in its technology and design before heading to a jury trial, the second time in two months. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/30/tesla-settles-another-defect-case-avoiding-jury-second-time-this-year/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Voice notes are everywhere. Here’s how to send one.

Instructions for sending voice notes through text messages, WhatsApp, Meta’s Messenger and more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/30/how-to-send-voice-message-record-save/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Get ready for a hot AI summer

Crypto, AI and clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Aging utilities can’t keep up. On today’s episode of “Post Reports,” we look into who will be left to pay the price. https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/get-ready-for-a-hot-ai-summer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

An image calling for ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ is going viral. But it seems AI-generated.

What does “All Eyes on Rafah” mean? The phrase is seen on a likely AI-generated image depicting a tent camp in Rafah, Gaza, and went viral after an Israeli strike. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/29/all-eyes-on-rafah-meaning-ai-image/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

AI career coaches are here. Should you trust them?

New AI tools claim they can serve as professional coaches for workers, helping them with complex issues and professional development. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/29/ai-career-coaches/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Chosen to be the first Black astronaut, he got to space six decades later

Ed Dwight told himself he didn’t care that he trained to go to space but didn’t make it. That changed when peers persuaded him to take a Blue Origin flight at age 90. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/05/29/ed-dwight-blue-origin-astronaut/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

How the U.S. ignored a chance to make TikTok safer

TikTok offered the Biden administration control over its U.S. operations and a kill switch if things went south. The administration took a pass. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/29/tiktok-cfius-proposal-rejected/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Apple and Microsoft want you to notice how their AI works. But why?

Companies want you to care about the distinction between “on device” and cloud artificial intelligence. You just want technology to work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/24/apple-microsoft-ai-products-events/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

OpenAI starts training a new AI model to power ChatGPT

OpenAI expects the new model to bring the company closer to achieving “AGI,” or artificial general intelligence, a hotly contested idea that refers to computers matching the power of human brains. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/28/openai-chatgpt-ai-llm/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The media bosses fighting back against AI — and the ones cutting deals

As OpenAI and other tech firms make advances, the media industry is split between pushing back and making deals. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/27/ai-media-barry-diller-iac-nyt/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Debunking misinformation failed. Welcome to ‘pre-bunking’

Election officials around the world are adopting “prebunking” campaigns, as AI and other threats jeopardize voting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/26/us-election-misinformation-prebunking/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Why this company’s biggest fans turned against it

When software runs your car, home theater, thermostat and more, one botched update can ruin everything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/17/sonos-new-app-update-problems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

These ISIS news anchors are AI fakes. Their propaganda is real.

The Islamic State-affiliated media broadcast News Harvest shows how artificial intelligence can be used to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/17/ai-isis-propaganda/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Cruise settles with person dragged under one of its robotaxis

The GM-owned self-driving company suspended operations after the crash, but is starting to make a comeback. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/15/cruise-settlement-victim-self-driving-gm/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Even remote and hybrid work can burn you out. Here’s how to avoid it.

Our new era of work has led many to working harder and more often, carrying over bad habits from the height of the pandemic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/15/work-burnout-tips-hybrid/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Senators unveil plan to regulate AI, as companies race ahead

The 31-page “road map” calls for a $32 billion infusion for AI research and development and asks congressional committees to develop legislation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/15/congress-ai-road-map-regulation-schumer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Trump gets $1 million from Silicon Valley donor who once gave to Democrats

The donation from Jacob Helberg, a Palantir adviser who helped push the TikTok ban, shows how some in the tech industry are coalescing against Biden. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/14/trump-donors-tech-jacob-helberg/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Boeing delays key space test flight once again

This time the problem is a helium leak, the latest in a series of problems that have delayed Starliner’s development by years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/boeing-starliner-launch-delay/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

What Google announced at its annual I/O conference

Gemini, an AI-video generator and the biggest changes to search in two decades. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/google-io-announcements-2024/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

These four searches show how Google is changing

You’ll soon start seeing more of Google’s AI “answers.” They take some decoding. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/google-ai-search-can-you-trust/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a Middle East gold rush.

Virtually overnight, the Middle East has emerged as the most powerful geopolitical force in the tech industry, due in part to the Biden administration’s fears about China. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/middle-east-ai-tech-companies-saudi-arabia-uae/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Schumer’s long-awaited AI ‘road map’ is coming this week. It will cost billions.

Crafted by a bipartisan group of Senators, the “road map” reviews AI’s impact on the military, health care and workers and could be released as soon as Tuesday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/13/congress-ai-laws-research-regulation-schumer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Pentagon worried its primary satellite launcher can’t keep pace

In a letter sent Friday, Air Force Assistant Secretary Frank Calvelli said he was “growing concerned” about the United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/13/pentagon-worried-ula-vulcan-development/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Don’t wait for AI search. Get better results with what you have now.

Microsoft and Google are bringing chatty AI-powered search results to the masses, but you can get better results today with these tricks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/15/search-tips/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers

The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/13/google-ai-search-io-sge/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

U.S.-China talks on AI risks set to begin in Geneva

The talks are aimed at preventing disastrous accidents and unintended war amid an AI arms race. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/13/us-china-ai-talks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Fooled by AI? These firms sell deepfake detection that’s ‘REAL 100%.’

A surge of companies now claim to offer hyper-accurate detection services, but their capabilities are largely untested. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/12/ai-deepfakes-detection-industry/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Google’s new ‘Find My’ device network is useful but a stalking risk

The always-on Bluetooth tracking technologies from Apple and Google help pinpoint lost or stolen devices. But they can be abused. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/10/android-find-my-network-google-is-it-safe/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Apple apologizes for iPad ad after blowback

Apple has apologized for an iPad ad that appeared to destroy art supplies and musical instruments. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/09/apple-ipad-ad-apology/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Hack targeting hospital chain Ascension is impacting patient care

Ascension, which operates 140 hospitals in 19 states, says the hack has disrupted clinical care. The extent and duration of the disruption weren’t immediately clear. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/09/cyberattack-hack-hospital-ascension/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Why everyone’s mad at Apple’s new iPad ad

A commercial for the new iPad Pro seems to celebrate the destruction of analog art. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/08/apple-ipad-ad-tim-cook-backlash/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024

‘By the end of the second day, you’re like: Trust no one,’ said one Arizona county recorder who completed a first-of-its-kind exercise on the threat of AI in the coming election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/08/arizona-election-workers-trained-with-deepfakes-prepare-2024/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Commerce Department revokes more export licenses to China’s Huawei

The move is expected to impact chip sales by Intel and Qualcomm to Huawei’s smartphone and laptop business lines. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/07/huawei-export-sanctions-chips/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Apple plays up AI potential in new iPads

As Apple launched new iPads, the Cupertino, Calif., company has steadily ramped up comments on its AI work, with CEO Tim Cook saying AI will be “transformative.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/07/apple-new-ipad-pro-m4-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Everything TikTok users need to know about a possible ban in the U.S.

What every TikTok user needs to know about a new potential ban of the viral-video app, including when it could disappear and how to save your data. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/23/tiktok-ban-us-start-explained/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

TikTok files court challenge to U.S. law that could lead to ban

The filing ignites a high-stakes court battle in Washington that could prove to be an existential fight for one of the world’s most popular apps. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/07/tiktok-legal-challenge-law-ban/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Boeing Starliner space launch delayed at least until Friday

If a misbehaving valve needs to be replaced, the launch will be pushed to next week. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/07/boeing-starliner-launch-valve-delay/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Defense think tank MITRE to build AI supercomputer with Nvidia

The $20 million AI ‘sandbox’ will allow federal agencies from DoD to the IRS to test cutting-edge technologies amid global AI race. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/07/mitre-nvidia-ai-supercomputer-sandbox/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Improper ‘shadow’ ads thriving on Facebook during India’s election

Many political ads on Facebook in India hide their true buyers, according to civil society groups and recent studies, threatening the integrity of the process. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/06/india-facebook-ad-policies/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Bosses mandated them back to the office. They took legal action instead.

Workers are fighting office mandates by filing legal complaints and lawsuits as employers increasingly take a hardline stance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/06/return-office-mandates-lawsuits-employees/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Twitch streamers become go-to news source for campus protest coverage

Twitch wasn’t always a place for news and political content. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/05/twitch-gaza-protests-streaming/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Divided Trump campaign weighs joining TikTok, the app he tried to ban

The move could spark outrage among Trump’s supporters, but some advisers are arguing it would help him reach young voters who believe it’s cool to be “Trump-adjacent.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/05/trump-tiktok-campaign-debate/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

After years of delay, Boeing to try again with Starliner space capsule

Monday’s planned launch comes as the aerospace giant is dealing with the fallout from problems with its airline division. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/05/boeing-starliner-test-launch-crew/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Google’s empire is massive. A judge will soon rule if it’s a monopoly.

The tech giant has nine products with more than a billion users https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/03/google-antitrust-monopoly-company-ownership-youtube/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Trump Media auditor charged by SEC with ‘massive fraud’

Regulators said B.F. Borgers’ “deliberate and systemic failure” led to errors in more than 1,500 of its filings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/03/trump-media-auditor-borgers-suspended-permanently/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger