Two tribal nations sue social media companies over Native youth suicides

Two tribal nations sue social media companies over Native youth suicides

[ad_1] Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to the disproportionately high rates of suicide among Native American youth. Their lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles county court names Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta Platforms; Snapchat’s Snap Inc.; TikTok parent company ByteDance; and Alphabet, which owns YouTube and Google, as defendants. … Read more

Victims of Montana asbestos pollution that killed hundreds take Warren Buffett's railroad to court

Victims of Montana asbestos pollution that killed hundreds take Warren Buffett's railroad to court

[ad_1] LIBBY, Mont. — Paul Resch remembers playing baseball as a kid on a field constructed from asbestos-tainted vermiculite, mere yards from railroad tracks where trains kicked up clouds of dust as they hauled the contaminated material from a mountaintop mine through the northwestern Montana town of Libby. He liked to sneak into vermiculite-filled storage … Read more

Free blue checks are back for some accounts on Elon Musk's X. Not everyone is happy

Free blue checks are back for some accounts on Elon Musk's X. Not everyone is happy

[ad_1] NEW YORK — Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has begun restoring complimentary blue checks for some of its users, the latest unexpected shift to cause a lot of confusion on the platform. For years, Twitter’s blue checks mirrored verification badges that are common on social media, largely reserved for celebrities, … Read more

Google to purge billions of files containing personal data in settlement of Chrome privacy case

Google to purge billions of files containing personal data in settlement of Chrome privacy case

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser. The massive housecleaning comes as part of a settlement in a lawsuit accusing the search giant of illegal surveillance. The details of … Read more

It's not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges

It's not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges

[ad_1] After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research. Some of its conflicts stem from decisions made well before the debut of ChatGPT, particularly its unusual shift from an idealistic nonprofit … Read more

George Carlin estate sues over fake comedy special purportedly generated by AI

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[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — The estate of George Carlin is suing the media company behind a fake hourlong comedy special that purportedly uses artificial intelligence to recreate the late standup comic’s style and material. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday asks that a judge order the podcast outlet Dudesy to … Read more