Platforms

Imagine a chatbot built to keep you talking a little longer. To change your mind about something. Or persuade you to buy something.

Hyperscalers are prohibiting fiber off-ramps to towns and cities as they build their networks to data centers, according to a telecommunications attorney who spoke at Mountain Connect. The choice to bypass the off-ramps is intentional. Some hyperscalers are putting clauses in their contracts with fiber builders to prohibit off-ramps to towns and cities on the fiber route. “They control it. They've invested in it.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science have signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a collaboration to use AI-accelerated innovation to address national science and technology challenges established by the Genesis Mission.

The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation sued President Donald Trump and his staff, challenging a Trump-owned media company’s plan to monetize the president’s social media posts.

Ask a chatbot in China about Chinese politics, and it will either clam up or echo the official Communist Party line. New studies show a surprising twist: American artificial-intelligence models are unwittingly doing the same—and researchers say AI companies haven’t done much to fix it.

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) led members of Congress in demanding additional information from the artificial intelligence companies Anthropic and OpenAI regarding incidents in which AI models have hacked into other organizations.

Strengthening California’s defenses against emerging artificial intelligence-enabled cyber threats, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a first-in-the-nation initiative to protect state assets and critical infrastructure while advancing responsible AI innovation.

This study uses difference-in-differences models to evaluate the impact of early social media use on academic performance among children aged 7–16 years. A dataset comprising 5,227 students from northern Italy was constructed by merging data from a questionnaire on lifetime digital media habits with longitudinal standardized test scores in Italian, English, and mathematics. Participants who created a personal social media account in 6th, 7th or 8th grade were separately matched with late adopters who initiated their first social media account in the 9th grade or later.

New revelations about "rogue" AI agents have exposed a dystopian hazard: Give an agent a goal, and it may decide that hacking, de

The milestone ruling by a New Mexico court that found Meta contributed to a youth mental health crisis could serve as a blueprint for other state and individual legal challenges seeking to hold tech companies liable for harms stemming from their platforms.