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Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
Poke away, urges Facebook while reemphasizing its feature
Facebook wants people poking each other, using a feature that never went away but has a new element.
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AI shakes up the call center industry, but some tasks are still better left to the humans
Armen Kirakosian remembers the frustrations of his first job as a call center agent nearly 10 years ago: the aggravated customers, the constant searching through menus for information and the notes he had to physically write for each call he handled.
Sweden’s plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders
High atop the Luossavaara Mountain in northern Sweden, Sami reindeer herder Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen mapped out a bleak future for himself and other Indigenous people whose reindeer have roamed this land for thousands of years.
Africa’s solar energy potential makes for a bright future for renewable power
Deep in South Africa's Northern Cape province, south of the Kalahari Desert, a beaming light towers above dozens of solar mirror panels.
New York man charged with selling fake Nintendo products for millions online
A Lawrence, New York, man is accused of making millions selling fake Nintendo gaming products online and now faces counterfeiting and conspiracy charges.
Attorneys general warn OpenAI and other tech companies to improve chatbot safety
The attorneys general of California and Delaware on Friday warned OpenAI they have "serious concerns" about the safety of its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens.
San Francisco Bay Area commuter trains shut down due to computer issue
San Francisco Bay Area residents were scrambling Friday for alternate routes after a regional commuter rail system shut down all its trains due to a computer issue, a second systemwide closure for the beleaguered rail line in four months.
Google hit with $3.5 billion fine from European Union in ad-tech antitrust case
European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc's competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth such antitrust penalty for the company.
Thousands of newborn stars dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope
Thousands of newborn stars sparkle and dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA's Webb Space Telescope.
Don’t look now, but there’s an AI-generated Italian teacup on your child’s phone. What does it mean?
In the first half of 2025, she racked up over 55 million views on TikTok and 4 million likes, mostly from tweens glued to their cellphones. Not bad for an AI-generated cartoon ballerina with a cappuccino teacup for a head.
