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FTC targets Google, Meta, X, and others with inquiry into AI chatbot safety: 'Protecting kids online is a top priority'
By Andy Chalk published
news The Federal Trade Commission wants to know what chatbot-makers are doing to "measure, test, and monitor potentially negative impacts" of their products.

'The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline,' says Google in court, then quickly rows back on that statement
By Hope Corrigan published
news "It's clear from the preceding sentence that we're referring to 'open-web display advertising' and not the open web as a whole." Is it?

Google now lets you choose who you trust for your gaming news—here's how to support PC Gamer and other human-made content
By Jacob Ridley published
Help out I choo-choo-choose you.

Critics claim the latest judgement against Google is a 'feckless remedy to the most storied case of monopolisation of the past quarter century' while the US DOJ says 'we're not done'
By James Bentley published
News "You don’t find someone guilty of robbing a bank and then sentence him to writing a thank you note for the loot."

Cloudflare mitigates biggest ever DDoS attack, which tried to pelt its target with 11.5 Tbps of data in less than a minute
By Jess Kinghorn published
News An in-depth report is on the way.

Google's self-loathing Gemini chatbot admits to being wrong 'every single time' and offers to pay software developer to fix the bad code it wrote
By Jeremy Laird published
News Does Gemini have access to Google's credit card details...?

'They’re just hiding the critical information': Google says its Gemini AI sips a mere 'five drops' of water per text prompt, but experts disagree with its findings
By Andy Edser published
News 'This really spreads the wrong message to the world.'

'You've got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI': Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming
By Jacob Fox published
News And maybe we're all in the mind of another AI, howaboutthat?
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