It is thought that thousands of people may have lost their jobs at Oracle, one of the world’s largest tech companies.
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Social media firms must better enforce Australia under-16 ban, watchdog says
While Australia’s ban was brought in with huge fanfare, it is widely acknowledged that many under-16s continue to use the 10 platforms covered by the law: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, and streaming platforms Kick and Twitch.
Tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass job cuts. Why?
In recent weeks, giants including Google, Amazon, Meta, as well as smaller firms such as Pinterest and Atlassian, have all announced or warned of plans to shrink their workforce, pointing to developments in AI that they say are allowing their firms to do more with fewer people.
PS5 price hiked by £90 due to global ‘pressures’
The changes will see the recommended retail price of the PS5 rise from £479.99 to £569.99 in the UK.
Judge rejects Pentagon’s attempt to ‘cripple’ Anthropic
“If this were merely a contracting impasse, DoW would presumably have just stopped using Claude,” Judge Lin wrote, referencing the Department of War, a secondary name for the Department of Defense. “The challenged actions, however, far exceed the scope of what could reasonably address such a national security interest.”
Meta and YouTube found liable in landmark social media addiction trial
A woman has been awarded $6m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.
Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers
The study will recruit 4,000 students aged 12 to 15 from ten Bradford secondary schools and seek to assess the impact of having less access to social media – particularly on areas of their wellbeing such as sleep, anxiety levels, social interactions, as well as absence and bullying in schools.
US bans new foreign-made consumer internet routers
There are almost no major brands of internet routers that are manufactured in the US.
AI videos of sexualised black women removed from TikTok after BBC investigation
The BBC, working in collaboration with analysts Jeremy Carrasco and Angel Nulani from Riddance, has identified 60 such accounts, mainly on Instagram, that have carried links, or chains of links, to paid-for sexually explicit content on third-party sites. The sites labelled the imagery as AI-generated, but the Instagram accounts did not.
Luke Littler applies to trademark his face to combat AI fakes
Joe Doyle-Ward, Senior Associate and Trade Mark Attorney at Abion, one of the UK and Europe’s leading intellectual property firms, told the BBC the move was a “smart branding decision” and one which firms were seeing happen more and more often with celebrities.