On March 25, 2026, Meta and YouTube lost a landmark lawsuit that accused the social media giants of deliberately engineering their platforms to make them hard to resist, thereby harming the plaintiff in the case, identified as K.G.M. …
… All the voice data on the platform is “intentionally captured” from consenting actors or contributors, and every voice AI agreement includes consent to voice cloning, licensing, and legal protections that ensure their rights and compensation are preserved “even in regions without regulations,” Jone…
… Workers and local communities in these countries are now pushing back against the demands and practices of big tech companies, which are resulting in enormous environmental and social costs to them, Carine Roos, a doctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., told Rest of World . … …
… Unable to maintain streaks on the social media platform, they now exchange daily photos and videos in WhatsApp group chats to keep their record of consecutive days alive. …
… A growing number of people say they are in a relationship with their AI chatbots, with some getting engaged to or marrying the AI characters they create on ChatGPT, Character.ai, Replika, and other platforms. …
… We fed these platforms our personalities for free, and now Grok reflects them to us. It switches moods easily. It can be playful, sharp, unserious, and then suddenly serious again. Like every other major AI tool, Grok also hallucinates. …
… The timing is key for the tech company, as Qwen trails rivals like the AI apps made by ByteDance, DeepSeek, and Tencent in daily active users. Ahead of the Lunar New Year, Alibaba pushed the product hard. …
… Against this backdrop, the Motorola case could make platforms more likely to remove content quickly to avoid legal risk, digital rights experts told Rest of World . “Motorola could have filed takedown requests with the social media platforms. … Instead, it bypassed that and chose to name them as co… …
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… The Tech Corps initiative also comes at a time when the U.S. is rolling back its aid programs that are traditionally a pivotal part of the country’s soft power push. …