Gatherings of tens of thousands of Vice President Harris' supporters are raising millions of dollars for her campaign — and it's happening on Zoom.
Why it matters: It's a new era of virtual rallies. These online events are cheaper to organize, easier to attend, and they're poised to become a powerful tools for fundraising and voter outreach this fall.
States are drawing on laws first drafted in Hollywood's golden age to protect 21st Century children at risk of being exploited in the multibillion dollar influencer industry.
Why it matters: The content creation field is largely unregulated, and states are taking steps to ensure kids get a cut of the profit they brought in from vlogging or brand deals.
Data to train AI models increasingly comes from other AI models in the form of synthetic data, which can fill in chatbots' knowledge gaps but also destabilize them.
The big picture: As AI models expand in size, their need for data becomes insatiable — but high quality human-made data is costly, and growing restrictions on the text, images and other kinds of data freely available on the web are driving the technology's developers toward machine-produced alternatives.
