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[ad_1] California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens.  The warning comes a week after Bonta and 44 other attorneys general sent a letter to 12 of the top AI companies, following reports of sexually inappropriate interactions between AI chatbots and children.  “Since the issuance of that letter, we learned of the heartbreaking death by suicide of one young Californian after he had prolonged interactions with an OpenAI chatbot, as well as a similarly…

[ad_1] Common Sense Media, a kids-safety-focused nonprofit offering ratings and reviews of media and technology, released its risk assessment of Google’s Gemini AI products on Friday. While the organization found that Google’s AI clearly told kids it was a computer, not a friend — something that’s associated with helping drive delusional thinking and psychosis in emotionally vulnerable individuals — it did suggest that there was room for improvement across several other fronts. Notably, Common Sense said that Gemini’s “Under 13” and “Teen Experience” tiers both appeared to be the adult versions of Gemini under the hood, with only some additional…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s administration doesn’t want you to ask for forgiveness — it wants you to ask for loan repayment options.On Friday, the Department of Education announced it is expanding its ombudsman’s office, which typically handled student-loan borrower complaints, to also focus on consumer education and ensure that borrowers “are better equipped to make careful borrowing decisions and responsibly manage their federal student loan debt,” the press release said.This comes after Federal Student Aid moved its button to submit a complaint on its website to the bottom of the page under a “site feedback” button, which some lawmakers have…

[ad_1] It’s been a tumultuous year for the U.S. semiconductor industry. The semiconductor industry plays a sizable role in the “AI race” that the U.S. seems determined to win, which is why this context is worth paying attention to: from Intel’s appointment of Lip-Bu Tan to CEO — who wasted no time getting to work trying to revitalize the legacy company — to Joe Biden proposing sweeping new AI chip export rules on his way out of office that never came to fruition. Here’s a look at what’s happened so far in 2025. August Nvidia reports record quarter August 27:…

[ad_1] A Florida federal judge on Friday threw out right-wing cable news outlet Newsmax’s antitrust lawsuit against rival Fox News on procedural grounds, calling the complaint a “shotgun pleading.”US District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the lawsuit just two days after Newsmax filed it against the cable news giant and its parent company, Fox Corp.Newsmax alleged in its 31-page lawsuit that the Murdoch family-controlled conglomerate held an illegal monopoly in the “right-leaning pay TV news market.”Cannon ruled that Newsmax’s five-count lawsuit that alleged violations of federal and state antitrust laws is an “impermissible ‘shotgun pleading'” on the basis that the second…

[ad_1] Online gaming platform Roblox is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed for sharing gameplay moments, the company unveiled on Friday at the Roblox Developers Conference. The company also announced increased earnings for creators, new AI tools to boost creation, and other advancements in performance. The new short-form video experience, called “Roblox Moments,” is launching in beta for users 13 and older. It allows users to capture clips of their gameplay, then edit and share those clips in a scrollable feed. Users can trim their clip to up to 30 seconds, add music, and write a description before sharing it.…

[ad_1] Left-for-dead SMID-cap chemicals and ammunition manufacturer Olin (OLN) is in the throes of a “bearish-to-bullish” reversal, with the completion of the initial bottoming-out formation implying a move to around the $29 level. The stock traded at $24.90 at the time of this writing. We’re buyers here. Here are three charts showing the bullish turnaround: DISCLOSURES: None. All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL, their parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium. THE…

[ad_1] Warner Bros. is suing AI startup Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that the company allows users to generate images and videos of characters like Superman, Batman, and Bugs Bunny without permission. As first reported by Reuters, Warner Bros. says that Midjourney knowingly engaged in wrongful conduct, noting that the company previously restricted subscribers from generating content based on infringing images but recently lifted those protections. “Midjourney has made a calculated and profit-driven decision to offer zero protection for copyright owners even though Midjourney knows about the breathtaking scope of its piracy and copyright infringement,” the complaint reads. The lawsuit…

[ad_1] JPMorgan has a few key price levels it’s watching on the biggest artificial intelligence stocks in the market. The transition to early fall is a seasonally weak period for U.S. equities that could weigh on technology and growth names. With any swing against bellwether stocks such as Nvidia and Microsoft likely to dampen broad market gains, investors can look for clues in the strength or weakness of the AI-themed leadership of the current bull market. Jason Hunter, JPMorgan head of technical strategy, in a recent note to clients used “a bottom-up approach” to find evidence of exhaustion in prominent AI…

[ad_1] It was a cold February night when our Brooklyn apartment building caught on fire.I was half-asleep, but woke up to the sound of glass shattering and the smell of smoke. My now-husband, Ben, and I scrambled for our shoes and followed our 75-pound golden retriever toward the peephole.Given the thickness of the smoke, I started mentally calculating how we’d get our dog down the fire escape in a backpack. At that moment, the realization crystallized: We were, in a figurative sense, burned out. We needed space.About a month later, Ben received a call from an old colleague about a…