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The House on Wednesday passed legislation that would ban TikTok if they do not sell the company from its Chinese parent company.

A Roku Terms of Service (ToS) update reportedly locks up users’ televisions until they agree. The only way to opt out of the new “Dispute Resolution Terms” is to write the streaming service a letter by March 21.

After a disastrous stint at Twitter as the chief censor of the platforms infamous “trust and safety” team, Yoel Roth now plans to bring his censorship skills to a new task — cleaning up the seedy underbelly of online dating as Match Group’s head of trust and safety.

A recent report commissioned by the U.S. State Department has exposed significant safety concerns voiced by employees at leading artificial intelligence labs, including those of OpenAI, Google, and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, highlighting the lack of adequate safeguards and potential national security risks posed by advanced AI systems.

The U.S. Air Force is preparing to add 1,000 artificial intelligence (AI) jets to its fleet as part of a $6 billion contract.

Kellyanne Conway, the former senior Trump administration aide, is lobbying Congress against banning the controversial app TikTok.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr told Breitbart News on Sunday that Congress should pass a bill that would ban TikTok in the United States.

A new survey reveals that the relentless wave of tech industry layoffs combined with the rise of AI has fueled widespread anxiety over job security among American workers. More than 72 percent of Americans making more than $150,000 fear losing their jobs to AI and other sources of economic insecurity, while even 50 percent of those making under $50,000 feel the same way.

Google’s highly touted new San Francisco campus for its AI teams has reportedly been grappling with a frustrating and ironic problem – abysmal Wi-Fi connectivity. One employee remarked, “You’d think the world’s leading internet company would have worked this out.”

A recent report has revealed that several major automakers are covertly sharing detailed driving data from their customers’ vehicles with insurance companies and third-party data brokers.

An employee of the woke video game narrative consultant firm Sweet Baby Inc. recently attempted to silence a critic on the Steam gaming platform for the crime of listing the games that Sweet Baby Inc. consulted on. The resulting backlash has included a viral spread of anti-woke messaging and Sweet Baby employees and their leftist journalist friends privating their X/Twitter accounts.

The University of Virginia (UVA) reportedly spends $20 million on at least 235 Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employees, some of whom make a staggering $587,340 per year.

As Google Maps’ Street View feature becomes increasingly popular, concerns about privacy and security have arisen, prompting individuals to seek ways to protect their homes from unwanted exposure. Breitbart Tech suggests every reader follow the steps in this article to blur their home on the mapping site.

Chinese government documents and restricted military journals show how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using social media like TikTok and Hollywood to target vulnerable young consumers and tear at the fabric of American culture, according to Peter Schweizer’s new book: “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.”

Disney’s ABC is teaming up with the Chinese social media app TikTok for Oscars red carpet coverage on Sunday.

CEO Sam Altman will return to the board of OpenAI, the company said on Friday, just months after a boardroom dustup that saw him fired and rehired by the company behind ChatGPT.

The government of El Salvador announced this week that it will serve as one of several venues for the 2024 Gamergy international video game e-sports event in October.

A secret 2022 Chinese government directive called “Document 79″ seeks to “delete America” from the Chinese high-tech market.

UNESCO published a study that finds artificial intelligence systems are incorporating racial and sex stereotypes.

Former President Donald Trump says a ban of China’s TikTok app would only help Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook platform, which is the “true enemy of the people.” Although Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has shown an extreme leftist bias and a willingness to interfere in elections, Peter Schweizer has uncovered China Communist Party and Chinese military officials referring to TikTok as a “modern day Trojan Horse” and “information-driven mental warfare” aimed squarely at American teenagers.

An 11-year-old U.K. boy is dead after taking part in a TikTok trend called “chroming.” His family is now calling for the app to be banned.

A coalition of 40 state attorneys general has issued a stern warning to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, regarding the alarming surge in consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts.

The misuse of AI has landed a group of middle school students in serious trouble after they created and disseminated explicit images of their classmates. Five students from a Beverly Hills, California, middle school have reportedly been expelled after creating AI deep fake porn of more than a dozen classmates.

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has revealed a staggering increase in financial losses due to cybercrime in the United States, reaching an unprecedented $12.5 billion in 2023. This represents a 22 percent jump in losses over 2022.

With the great success of several Bible-based shows already evident, Netflix is now jumping into Faith-based programing with a new series about the life of the Biblical and Jewish leader Moses.

Elon Musk, the owner of X/Twitter announced potential changes to his platform during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference on Wednesday. The most puzzling change Musk plans is to remove the count of likes and retweets a post has received from users’ feeds, a key metric used to determine the popularity and virality of a given tweet.

A bipartisan bill could force Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell its popular video-sharing TikTok app within six months or face a ban from the United States.

In a surprising move, OpenAI — the AI company behind ChatGPT — has published a trove of emails from Elon Musk’s early days with the organization, escalating the legal battle between the two parties.

German authorities carried out raids Thursday across Germany against people suspected of posting misogynistic hate speech online.

As AI technology advances rapidly, public trust in AI companies and their developments is plummeting, raising concerns about the need for effective governance and regulation.

A lawsuit filed last year by several investment funds claims that Meta’s executives have long known about rampant human trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram but have failed to address the predatory behavior.

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is reportedly testing the potential of commercial AI chatbots like OpenAI’s GPT-4 to assist in military strategy and battle planning, claiming to keep AI within the confines of a simplified wargame simulation.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the company’s flawed rollout of its Gemini AI image generation tool in a rare public appearance over the weekend. In a revealing comment about the state of Google’s management, Brin claimed, “We haven’t fully understood why it leans left in many cases,” claiming “that’s not our intention.”

Actress Dakota Johnson is railing at Hollywood over its growing fascination with and reliance on artificial intelligence and its penchant for making movies “by committee.”

Four former top executives at Twitter have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, accusing the new owner of the social media platform of wrongfully denying them over $128 million in severance pay after he fired them. The executives include the former CEO, CFO, General Counsel, and infamous censorship queen Vijaya Gadde.

CBS’ “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert says he trusts big tech to program artificial intelligence (AI) with “compassion and vision,” adding, “I’m ready for the machines to tell us what to do.”