The Justice Department sued TikTok and its Chinese-owned parent company on Friday, alleging the social media app violates children's online privacy law.
The big picture: The popular platform engages in "massive-scale invasions of children's privacy" by collecting data from kids, who can create accounts without their parent's consent, the department said in the complaint.
A ransomware attack on blood donation nonprofit OneBlood this week is forcing many hospitals across the southeastern U.S. to rely on their critical blood supplies and host last-minute blood drives.
Why it matters: OneBlood provides blood samples to more than 300 hospitals in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas, and some hospitals may need to delay certain procedures until the blood supply is back to normal.
Google has decided to pull its Gemini Olympics ad featuring a dad asking the chatbot to help his daughter write a fan letter to her idol, gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.
The big picture: The "Dear Sydney" ad ruffled the feathers of online critics who believe that using generative AI to help a child write a fan letter sucks the life out of a time-honored tradition of fandom and also constitutes lazy parenting.
Antitrust officials at the Justice Department are looking into complaints that chip giant Nvidia is allegedly abusing its market dominance in AI chips, according to a report from The Information.
Why it matters: Nvidia's leadership in advanced AI semiconductors has powered astonishing stock performance over the past year, and the company now owns between 70% and 95% of the market for AI chips used for training and deploying leading AI models, Mizuho Securities estimates, per CNBC.
A growing number of women are seeking connection and comfort in relationships with chatbots — and finding their approximation of empathy more dependable than many human partners' support.
Why it matters: These female AI users, flipping the stereotype of under-socialized men chatting with AI girlfriends in their parents' basement, are challenging assumptions about the nature of human intimacy.
Russian military intelligence hackers have been embedding luxury car advertisements with credential-harvesting malware in a likely attempt to dupe diplomats, according to new research exclusively shared with Axios.
Why it matters: Targeting diplomats' devices can give Russian cyber spies access to state secrets and get ahead of any schemes designed to undermine the Kremlin's own agenda.
Telling young women they should "just learn to code" is "misguided" advice in the AI era, according to the founder of a global nonprofit aimed at bringing gender parity to tech.
The big picture: AI systems reflect the biases and perspectives of their creators, and shaping fair and inclusive AI systems will require empowering generations of young women to build them, Technovation founder Tara Chklovski argues.
Big Tech's message to investors on back-to-back earnings calls this week was "Stop worrying about the billions we're spending on AI — everything's going to be just great."
Drug stores' woes are working in favor of Amazon. CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday said that anti-theft measures in brick and mortar chains are helping to drive more customers to shop online and use Amazon's pharmacy business.
Why it matters: Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid are among big pharmacy chains that have been struggling to keep up with the changing economics of their industry and shifts in consumer behavior.
