Wikipedia founder brands Australia’s social media ban an ‘unmitigated disaster’ and an ‘embarrassment’

Uninsurable war damage is forcing tech companies to rethink Middle East plans.

Tech companies have made ads part of nearly every large free web service, video channel, and social media platform. But the latest AI models could take this practice to a new level of risk for consumers.

Massive data centers are rapidly being built all over the nation to provide computing power that tech companies need to train artificial intelligence or power other emerging technologies.

A Palantir post citing CEO Alex Karp's book called for mandatory military service and closer ties between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon while criticizing "hollow pluralism" and warning of a new AI arms race. But Palantir is just one of the tech companies blurring the lines between Silicon Valley and Washington – while growing too big too fast for traditional oversight.

The planned outlay comes after the tech giant recently made significant AI investments in Asia.

Meta plans to track US employees’ mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen activity to train workplace AI agents, according to Reuters, offering an early look at how far major tech companies may go to build systems that can automate knowledge work. The company plans to do so through a tool called Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, which will run on work-related apps and websites and periodically capture screen snapshots, according to the report. Meta reportedly told staff in internal memos that the data collected through MCI would be used to help train AI models in areas where they still struggle to mimic how humans interact with computers, such as navigating dropdown menus and using keyboard shortcuts. The company added that the data would not be used for performance reviews and would be limited to AI training. The move is likely to intensify debate over worker surveillance and data governance as companies push to use AI for a growing share of workplace tasks. In a separate m

Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam.

New guidance to legal profession ‘embraces’ use of technology but flags penalties for lawyers who ‘mislead the court’ with AI-generated errors Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The federal court of Australia has warned the legal profession about the dangers of using generative artificial intelligence in legal proceedings, issuing new rules for its use, with potential financial or legal consequences if AI errors frustrate court cases. Amid an explosion in court filings in Australia and across the globe found to have included false citations generated by AI, the federal court on Thursday issued a new practice note on how the technology can be used in court cases. Continue reading...