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Meta said on Friday it will let parents disable their teens’ private chats with AI characters, adding another measure to make its social media platforms safe for minors after fierce criticism over the behavior of its flirty chatbots.Earlier this week, the company said its AI experiences for teens will be guided by the PG-13 movie rating system, as it looks to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content.U.S. regulators have stepped up scrutiny of AI companies over the potential negative impacts of chatbots. In August, Reuters reported how Meta’s AI rules allowed provocative conversations with minors.The new tools, detailed by Instagram…
Meta is adding parental controls for kids’ interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots — including the ability to turn off one-on-one chats with AI characters altogether — beginning early next year. But parents won’t be able to turn off Meta’s AI assistant, which Meta says will “will remain available to offer helpful information and educational opportunities, with default, age-appropriate protections in place to help keep teens safe.”Parents who don’t want to turn off all chats with all AI characters will also be able to block specific chatbots. And Meta said Friday that parents will be able to get “insights” about what…
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — “It’s ‘Tycoon’ season,’” a beaming Ty Dolla $ign, declares.It is indeed. The inventive R&B singer has just released his fifth studio album, his first full-length solo release in five years. He chose “Tycoon” for its title because the word encompasses his current state of mind. “It’s like (being at) the top of your game,” he says. “It’s like, not only have I done all the stuff you could do in artistry, (but) there’s still more to do.” Call it confidence or swagger or showboating: The Grammy-nominated artist has a trove of multiplatinum records…
Big crowds of protesters are expected Saturday in thousands of places around the U.S. in opposition to what some are characterizing as increasingly authoritarian practices by President Donald Trump.It’s the second “No Kings” protest and third mass movement against the administration this year, and it comes amid an intensifying conflict between federal law enforcement and protesters nationwide.Some conservative politicians have condemned the protests as “Hate America” rallies, while others say that it represents a “patriotic” fight for First Amendment rights. Here is what to expect on Saturday.Ezra Levin, a leading organizer of Saturday’s protests, said the demonstrations are a response…
A BBC Gaza documentary breached the broadcasting code, an Ofcom investigation has found.The regulator said the failure to disclose that the 13-year-old boy narrating the programme was the son of a deputy agriculture minister in the Hamas-run government broke the rules and that it was “materially misleading” not to mention it. In July, the BBC said it breached its own editorial guidelines by failing to disclose the full identity of the child narrator’s father in the Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone documentary.A report into the controversial programme said three members of the independent production company knew about the role…
MUMBAI :Japanese lender Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation has no immediate plans to raise its stake in India’s Yes Bank beyond 24.99 per cent, a senior executive at the bank told Reuters on Friday.Its initial purchase, announced in May, marked the latest major overseas investment by a Japanese financial institution as they look to secure new sources of growth after years of rock bottom interest rates at home. SMBC is, however, moving cautiously with its biggest investment in India, in contrast with analysts’ expectations that it would quickly move to seek approval for a further increase in its stake and launch…
CHINA’S economy likely expanded the slowest in a year last quarter despite a boom in exports. This is a disconnect the Communist Party may move to rectify, by championing higher consumption, when it convenes for a key meeting next week.As trade tensions escalate with the US, a weakness in investment, industrial output, and retail sales is undermining the momentum from record sales abroad. Data due Monday (Oct 20) from the National Bureau of Statistics will show that the gross domestic product grew 4.7 per cent in the third quarter from the year before. This is based on the median estimate…
This week in ESG: Cancelled job rocks Seatrium offshore wind business; Singapore adopts fixed-cost envelope approach to adopt sustainable aviation fuelRenewable energySeatrium’s offshore headwindsThe unexpected termination of a US$475 million contract highlights Seatrium’s exposure to the offshore wind sector and the turbulence that lies ahead.On Oct 10, Seatrium announced that Maersk Offshore Wind is terminating the contract for a Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV) intended for the Empire Wind I project in New York. Seatrium says it is evaluating its legal and commercial options.
The ban on Micron products in critical infrastructure has shut the company out of the country’s data centre expansion boom[SEOUL/SHANGHAI] Micron plans to stop supplying server chips to data centres in China after the business failed to recover from a 2023 government ban on its products in critical Chinese infrastructure, two people briefed on the decision said.Micron was the first US chipmaker to be targeted by Beijing – a move that was seen as retaliatory for a series of curbs by Washington aimed at impeding tech progress by China’s semiconductor industry.Since then, both Nvidia and Intel chips have similarly fielded…
BEIJING :Shares of Chinese EV maker Xiaomi suffered their biggest weekly loss in more than 3-1/2 years on Friday, after media reported two separate accidents involving its best-selling model this week.Xiaomi shares ended the day 3.7 per cent lower at HK$45.96 ($5.92), the lowest close since April 22. For the week, they tumbled 11.7 per cent, the worst such decline since late January 2022, though year-to-date, the shares are still up by a third.On Friday morning a SU7 sedan lost control in the central city of Wuhan, where it knocked down guard rails in the middle of the road, drove…