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EHEALTH

Parents worry AI-generated influencers are promoting unrealistic beauty standards to kids

Thousands of parents are urging TikTok to address their concerns as AI-generated content creators grow more prevalent on social media.


CYBERSECURITY

Apple security update to safeguard against thieves now available


On the matter of the British Library cyber incident

The most important lesson to figure out is why it is taking so long to restore services. That will tell us how to prevent such a calamity in other vital national institutions.


LAW

Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms

Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit


CAREER

Younger workers need to be in the office because of AI, PwC's U.K. boss says

More time in the office leads to quicker promotions


UBER

Ever Wondered What Your Uber Drivers Really Think of You? Here's How to Check

If an Uber driver has ever left you a one-star review, there's a way to find out.


AI

A university is offering lessons from hologram professors

A new kind of learning is on the horizon.


New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text

Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.


Is OpenAI’s ‘moonshot’ to integrate democracy into AI tech more than PR? 

Last week, an OpenAI PR rep reached out by email to let me know the company had formed a new “Collective Alignment” team that would focus on “prototyping processes” that allow OpenAI to “incorporate public input to guide AI model behavior.” The goal? Nothing less than democratic AI governance — building on the work of ten recipients of OpenAI’s Democratic Inputs to AI grant program.


🤖 Cool Technology

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Early Impressions: The Ultra Is Not an Understatement

The titanium pulls everything together. And it turns out that Galaxy AI's tricks are a treat, after all.


Remote-control rental cars: Not as driverless as they look

A number of companies are now running remote-control rental car services, in which "teledrivers" guide an empty car out to you by remote control, and then you drive it around yourself. It's a weird halfway step towards fully autonomous robotaxis.


Propella hauls out its first blue-wheeled utility ebike

Last August, Redmond-based ebike maker Propella announced its first step-through model. Now the company has revealed its first utility ebike, a Class 2 ride that can be had for under US $1,000.


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