Replika, US-based artificially intelligent chatbot, was banned in Italy. It was prohibited by Italy’s Data Protection Agency (GPDP), which said on Friday that it cited its risk to minors and emotionally fragile people, Reuters reported. Replika was launched in 2017 as
The International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, is looking at ways to police crime in the metaverse, according to secretary general Jurgen Stock. However, the agency may find that to be hard in the absence of a universally agreed definition
Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, has reportedly won court approval for the acquisition of VR fitness app Supernatural’s maker, Within, after the Federal Trade Commission attempted to block the deal. Also read: Lawsuit Filed Against Meta, Snap, TikTok for Mental
Elon Musk is forging ahead with plans to turn Twitter into a payment platform and compete with Apple Pay and PayPal with the company reported to have started the licensing processes in the US. Payments could be another way for
Microblogging platform Twitter users can appeal their account suspensions starting Feb. 1, using the company’s new reinstatement criteria. The social media giant on Friday said that from February 1 and onwards users will be able to appeal account suspensions and be
Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers have warned of the danger of superhuman AI and told MPs they should be regulated in the same way as nuclear weapons. Oxford University researchers told House of Commons Science and Technology Committee that this could risk
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and eight states have filed charges against Google, accusing the company of exerting monopoly power over the buying and selling of online advertisements (ads). U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland filed the 155-page complaint in
Twitter CEO Elon Musk may have turned down a Davos invite, per his contested claim, but he did not necessarily sit out the proceedings. The chief twit has been chatty about this year’s edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF),
China has reportedly acquired minority stakes in the country’s big tech firms Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group as it plans to tighten its oversight on online content. This comes after the government previously snapped up shares from TikTok’s owner ByteDance.
Large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT have the potential to shake up political lobbying according to research conducted at one of the top US Universities. An investigation by John Nay of Stanford University posits that at least part of
The European Commission’s move to make traffic intensive online platforms to contribute to the cost of digital infrastructure will include the rise in data volumes used by the metaverse and virtual platforms. This initiative seeks to address a long-standing grievance
Seattle’s public school district has filed a lawsuit against social media giants Alphabet, Meta Platforms, Snap, and TikTok-owner ByteDance in the US District Court. The complaint, filed on Friday, claims that these tech giants intentionally designed their platforms to lure
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