Harris started her political career in the Bay Area. And since launching her campaign, donations from Silicon Valley have poured in. But that doesn’t necessarily mean she’ll go easy on Big Tech.
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AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change
The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.
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He created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine
Palmer Luckey launched his first tech company as a teenager. He sold it to Facebook for $2 billion. Now he’s making AI weapons the Pentagon is buying for itself and also sending to Ukraine.
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World leaders seek unity on AI at virtual summit co-hosted by South Korea, U.K.
The Seoul summit is a follow-up to last November’s summit in the U.K., where participating countries agreed to work together to contain risks posed by galloping advances in artificial intelligence.
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AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here’s why
A Jesus made of vegetables, bizarre log cabins, products that don’t exist. AI-generated images are creating new forms of clickbait and causing some users to doubt what’s real.
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AI fakes raise election risks as lawmakers and tech companies scramble to catch up
As AI-generated deepfakes are being used to spread false information in elections in the U.S. and around the world, policymakers, tech platforms and governments are trying to catch up.
