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Apple unveiled the Vision Pro headset and a number of AI-powered features yesterday, but largely ignored generative AI applications embraced by Google and Microsoft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Criminals may use artificial intelligence to scam you. Companies, like Google, are looking for ways AI and machine learning can help prevent phishing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young player hoping to be spotted by a Premier League club typically relies on luck as much as talent, but artificial intelligence could change all that. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A nonprofit that helps people with body image problems closed its human-run helpline. The chatbot that remained suggested things like losing weight. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new statement from industry leaders cautions that artificial intelligence poses a threat to humanity on par with nuclear war or a pandemic. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While other networks sputter, LinkedIn is growing. Here’s how to use the professional social network to highlight your accomplishments and skills. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The EV giant is under pressure to launch new products, but a huge dump of confidential files in Germany details a litany of technical failings. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Researchers say Armenian government workers, journalists, and at least one United Nations official were targeted by the NSO tool. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On a stop in London, the OpenAI CEO called for balanced regulation and warned of the risks of deepfake disinformation. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Advertisers can save money and perhaps make ads more clickable using ChatGPT-style tools to generate text and images. Meta is testing similar technology. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The record-breaking GDPR penalty for data transfers to the US could upend Meta's business and spur regulators to finalize a new data-sharing agreement. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With iPhones getting harder and more expensive to repair, French prosecutors have launched an investigation into the scourge of planned obsolescence. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tech regulation has often disappointed. Automation expert Missy Cummings hopes a course to teach policymakers about artificial intelligence can help. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At a congressional hearing senators from both parties and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a new federal agency was needed to protect people from AI gone bad. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Multiplayer titles like Minecraft encourage creativity, but prototype games built on the blockchain claim to give players more meaningful independence. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google’s generative AI chatbot Bard took center stage at the company’s I/O conference. The company’s answer to Siri was left backstage. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To compete with American rivals, Eutelsat’s Eva Berneke first has to navigate Russia’s war in Ukraine, Brexit politics, and jamming attacks by Iran. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Growing fleets, fancier sensors, and tighter budgets are forcing autonomous vehicle developers to get pickier about what stays on their servers. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Challenged by ChatGPT, the king of search launches a feature that can answer queries with text summarizing information found online. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OpenAI competitor Anthropic says its Claude chatbot has a built-in “constitution” that can instill ethical principles and keep systems from going rogue. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Europe’s parliament is struggling to agree on new rules to govern AI—showing how policymakers everywhere have a lot to learn about the technology. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Startups building chatbots tuned for emotionally engaged conversation say they can offer support, companionship—and even romance. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The government says it’ll fact-check the internet. Kunal Kamra is challenging the IT amendments in court. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Under Elon Musk, hate speech has surged and propaganda accounts have thrived. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices