Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler will step down in January. 20 when President-elect Donald Trump’s administration takes over, the agency said Thursday, ending an ambitious tenure that saw it clash with Wall Street and the crypto industry. “I thank President Biden for entrusting me with this extraordinary responsibility. The SEC has fulfilled our […]

Listen. Experts from NordVPN have outlined a four-step process anyone can follow to find out if their phone is listening and using private conversations for targeted advertising, the Daily Mail reported. Some smartphone users worry that their device is eavesdropping when they least suspect it. wachiwit – stock.adobe.com The first step in the test is […]

Everyone needs a prey. And when there are no warm bodies in the room, people over 50 are turning to chatbots for companionship – so says a recent study on seniors and sophisticated technology. “Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the way we live, and its impact on the elderly is no exception,” wrote the authors […]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into a shadowy left-leaning advertising cabal over whether it participated in a “coordinated plan or conspiracy” to boycott “certain social media platforms,” ​​the office said. his on Thursday. Paxton is investigating whether the powerful World Advertising Federation and its now-defunct nonprofit arm, the Global Alliance for […]

Jeff Bezos is disputing Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim that the Amazon founder predicted President-elect Trump would lose the 2024 presidential election. “I just found out tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos is telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump is going to lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock,” Musk wrote […]

Oh, Claus will be released this Christmas – and it’s all thanks to AI. The gift that keeps on giving, artificial intelligence has forever changed the way we shop, sleep, have sex, and socialize. Now, transformative technology is changing Santa’s once-signature look this coming Christmas. And his new bag comes with a shocking all-over slant. […]

Anthropic said on Friday that longtime backer Amazon had pumped an additional $4 billion into the artificial intelligence startup, doubling its investment in the firm known for its GenAI Claude chatbot. Amazon will retain its position as a minority investor and will be Anthropic’s main training partner for AI models, the startup said. Amazon, which […]

The website for controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate’s self-help site The Real World was reportedly hacked this week. Hackers were able to extract a trove of data from Tate’s site — formerly known as University Hustler — that included about 794,000 usernames, 324,382 unique email addresses and public and private chat logs, according to […]

Parents were rejoicing this week after Roblox, the popular online game marketed to kids, announced they were introducing some big changes to their controversial chat features. It was confirmed that the platform would implement significant updates to its security systems and parental controls – including blocking those under 13 from messaging others online – as […]