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Oscar-winning star Tom Hanks is warning fans that a video commercial that seems to show him selling dental insurance was created by artificial intelligence and that he has nothing at all to do with the product or the company selling it.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook (now known as Meta) has launched AI chatbots modeled after a laundry list of celebrities and influencers including Tom Brady, Snoop Dogg, and YouTube star Mr. Beast. Zuckerberg believes that interacting with AI chatbots featuring the personalities of celebrities will popularize AI on Facebook’s platforms.

Former Nickelodeon child star Madisyn Shipman, who played Kenzie Bell on the network’s Game Shakers, has joined Playboy’s knockoff version of OnlyFans, revealing that she received shocking fetish requests from paying subscribers.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether Florida and Texas Big Tech laws violate the First Amendment, teeing up a major constitutional fight over attempts by conservatives and Republicans to fight leftwing bias in social media companies.

The ongoing antitrust case against tech giant Google, led by the Justice Department, is drawing widespread attention and criticism due to significant levels of secrecy and limited public access, placing U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta at the center of the controversy.

Linda Yaccarino, the newly appointed CEO of Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has raised eyebrows by displaying an apparent lack of alignment with Musk’s plans and seemingly minimal engagement with the platform she leads during interviews at the recent Vox Code Conference. Yaccarino accidentally revealed on video that her company’s app isn’t even on her iPhone’s home screen.

The convicted felon accused in the murder of a tech CEO in Baltimore, Maryland, was taken into custody after two days on the run.

A Microsoft executive testified at the ongoing Google antitrust trial that Apple seemingly used Bing as a mere “bargaining chip” against the internet giant, never intending to replace Google Search with Bing as the default search engine on its devices.

Hackers purportedly linked to the Chinese government infiltrated the State Department after hacking a Microsoft employee earlier this summer, pilfering around 60,000 emails from the inboxes of 10 employees, revealing sensitive information including travel itineraries and diplomatic deliberations.

Barry Diller, chairman of IAC and Expedia, said the current agreement between the Writers Guild of America and the studios doesn’t go far enough to protect copyright holders from being gobbled up by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Around half of the “election integrity” team at X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has been laid off, per reports, with Elon Musk agreeing that the team had in fact undermined election integrity.

The rise of AI girlfriends is ruining an entire generation of young men by fostering a silent epidemic of loneliness, according to Washington University Professor of Data Science Liberty Vittert.

A group of hackers calling themselves the “Indian Cyber Force” claimed responsibility on Thursday for crashing the official website of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Fox News moderators grilled Vivek Ramaswamy during Wednesday’s debate for using TikTok despite airing ads for it during the event.

The CIA is in the final stages of developing an AI tool designed to enhance the analysis of open-source intelligence, marking a significant stride in the West’s ongoing technological rivalry with China.

NEW YORK (AP) — After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence in one of the first major labor battles over generative AI in the workplace.

A new analysis of Google search results pertinent to the next U.S. presidential election shows that the leftist tech giant still overwhelmingly favors the incumbent, Joe Biden, burying results for his Democrat competitor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential candidates on the second page.

Republican FCC commissioner Brendan Carr has slammed plans by the Democrat majority on the commission to revive Obama-era regulations on telecoms carriers, a measure that progressives sold to the public as “Net Neutrality.”

Members of the House Financial Services Committee from both parties, including GOP whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) have written to the SEC urging the agency to stop blocking the approval of various cryptocurrency ETFs.

Elon Musk contemplated various cities including Dallas to be the site of a new Tesla factory before eventually settling on Austin. Musk reportedly deemed Dallas to be “too Texas,” according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography.

Amazon faces a major legal challenge as the FTC unveils its 172-page lawsuit, alleging the e-commerce giant of employing anti-competitive practices and exploiting merchants on its platform.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads, the social media platform launched by Facebook (now known as Meta) as a “sanely run” alternative to X/Twitter, is grappling with a significant decline in user attraction, ranking it near the bottom of the most popular social media platforms. A new analyst report has revealed that the troubled platform ranks only ahead of social media also ran Tumblr for user acquisition.

Instagram and OnlyFans are fueling an exploding illegal child trafficking industry online, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) wrote to the Federal Trade Commission.

The Democrat-led majority at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on Tuesday they would hope to revive the Obama-era net neutrality regulations.

The Wire star Idris Elba says actors playing roles in video games like Phantom Liberty is a “sign of the times.” The actor, who appears in an expansion for the popular video game Cyberpunk 2077, believes more big name actors will appear in high-end games as Hollywood’s woes deepen.

Popular online competitive game League of Legends launched a competitive program for women and gamers from “marginalized genders,” which resulted in the program being dominated by biological men, with only one biological female being highlighted in the “Game Changers” promotional video.

Meredith Whittaker, the president of private messaging app Signal, shed light on the intrinsic link between AI and Big Tech’s surveillance capitalism, emphasizing the profound implications of the technology on privacy and user data during her appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Whittaker went so far as to label AI as “surveillance technology,” which may be why the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe are rushing to integrate AI into everything they do.

The ongoing landmark antitrust trial against Google is shedding light on the internet giant’s relentless effort to dominate online search, revealing the company’s strategic maneuvers and exclusive deals with major partners like Apple and Samsung to secure its position as the default search engine on a global scale.

Amazon finds itself in the crosshairs of the FTC and 17 states, facing accusations of engaging in illegal conduct and monopolistic practices within its online store and merchant services.

Catturd, the popular conservative account on X, formerly known as Twitter, was swatted during a Monday livestream after being doxxed by leftist outlets.

Twenty-seven Senate Democrats have written a letter urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reinstate Title II common carrier regulations on internet service providers, a regulatory move marketed to the public as “net neutrality,” little more than two weeks after the Biden White House appointed a new commissioner to the agency.

Having finally obtained a majority on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Democrat-aligned think tanks in DC are hoping to put Title II regulations of telecoms companies, aka “Net Neutrality,” back on the agenda.

“Naked Attraction,” a controversial dating show that involves full-frontal nudity, has been quietly added to the HBO/Max streaming platform.

Ad Fontes, a company that purports to rank the bias and trustworthiness of news source, is itself overwhelmingly biased in favor of leftist media, per analysis from the Media Research Center (MRC).

The Washington Post has admitted that the censorship-industrial complex of “fact checkers,” think tanks, and NGOs, carefully constructed over the past half-decade to censor dissident voices, has been put on the defensive by a number of investigations from Congressional Republicans and red states.

Spotify has unveiled a new feature, powered by ChatGPT developer OpenAI, that clones podcasters’ voices using AI. The company claims the technology will be used for translation purposes, allowing the voices of podcasters to present their shows in languages they don’t speak.