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schwit1 shares a report from IOL: China has enacted a new law regulating social media influencers, requiring them to hold verified professional qualifications before posting content on sensitive topics such as medicine, law, education, and finance, IOL reported....

Elon Musk is widely recognized as an electric car pioneer. Yet the Tesla CEO has also single-handedly chilled the automaker's sales, according to a recent study by researchers at Yale University.Public controversy over Musk's role as leader...

One Hand ClappingNikolay Kukushkin Swift Press (UK);Prometheus Books (US) “If two hands come together and make a sound, what is the...

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Nvidia on Wednesday became the first publicly listed company to be valued at $5 trillion, driven by investor confidence in the growth of artificial intelligence.Nvidia's shares rose $9.08, or 4.5%, to $210.11 in early morning...

Chatbot site Character.ai is cutting off teenagers from having conversations with virtual characters, after facing intense criticism over the kinds of interactions young people were having with online companions.The platform, founded in 2021, is used by millions to talk...

For many in the research community, it’s gotten harder to be optimistic about the impacts of artificial intelligence.As authoritarianism is rising around the world, AI-generated “slop” is overwhelming legitimate media, while AI-generated deepfakes are spreading misinformation and parroting extremist...

After two days full of live demos and pitches, it’s time to announce the five finalists at this year’s Startup Battlefield.These finalists were selected from an initial pool of thousands of applicants, with TechCrunch’s editorial team narrowing the field...

Lily JamaliNorth America Technology Correspondent, San FranciscoReutersOpenAI has completed its long-planned conversion to a for-profit entity, a move that could allow it to raise billions of dollars in investment and potentially clear the way for a stock market debut.As...

Disease historians have a problem. While examining samples of ancient human DNA, geneticists have come across genes belonging to...