brad smith
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Big Tech Companies Pledge to Fight Election Deepfakes but Free Speech Issues Remain
Major tech companies announced a new pact at the Munich Security Conference on Friday pledging to fight AI-generated fakes that are intended to deceive the public and influence elections. The press conference, which was livestreamed online, featured leaders from Big Tech firms who’ve been under immense pressure in recent years to address the misinformation that’s…
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The Usual Suspects of Big Tech Claim AI Will Kill Us All or End World Hunger
Apparently Elon Musk is citing a ‘threat to humanity,’ while Mark Zuckerberg is defending his not-so-open open source AI tools.
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Microsoft Says It Won’t Fight Unions, Will Employees Call Their Bluff?
The big players at Microsoft say they’ll hold back their foot from crushing the little guy if they decide to go the way of organised labour, though it seems the company would rather first exhaust any other avenue than sitting down for collective bargaining.
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Microsoft Knew Bill Gates Was Inappropriate With Female Staff as Early as 2008
Microsoft brass knew that founder and former chairman of the board Bill Gates was propositioning female staff at the company as early as 2008 and told him to stop, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.