Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16
Pinterest’s chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
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AI chatbots are prone to errors, according to tax professionals.
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A French Navy officer accidentally leaked the location of an aircraft carrier by logging his run on Strava
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AI-Powered Smart Ring Helps Entrepreneurs Track the Health Data to Drive Peak Performance
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Yes, You Can Let AI Work For You — But That’s Not How You Build Trust
As AI accelerates executive content creation, leaders face a new credibility gap: the more efficient communication becomes, the harder it is to sound human.
WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more
New AI agents on WordPress.com could lower barriers to publishing while increasing machine-generated content across the web.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin enters the space data center game
“Project Sunrise” would include more than 50,000 satellites performing high-energy compute on orbit.