Ottawa tables privacy bill aimed at boosting protections for children, increasing data-use transparency

Companies would also be made to delete personal information on request, and a new watchdog would have the power to combat surveillance pricing, minister says ...
MacRumors

Apple's Craig Federighi: Siri Won't Be Your AI Girlfriend

Apple software engineering chief Craig Federighi and marketing chief Greg Joswiak sat down for an interview with Mostly Human after during WWDC, discussing the iOS 27 Siri changes, Apple's take on AI, ...
Digiday

Reuters and Time adopt bot-blocking whitelists to rein in AI crawlers

Reuters and Time are taking a new approach to bot blocking. Both publishers have recently started blocking all AI bots by default, and created whitelists of approved bots to access content on their ...
Orange County Register

One Tech Tip: Your next job interview could be with an AI bot

Have you applied for a new job? If you’ve been shortlisted, get ready to be interviewed by artificial intelligence. Deluged by a flood of AI-generated job applications from easy-apply job boards, ...
Kotaku

Hideo Kojima Says He’s Not Interested In AI: ‘Maybe AI Could Create Art, But While I Live, I Don’t Think I’ll See It’

Last month, a generative AI version of Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima appeared in a short promotional movie for a Prada art installation revolving around the famed game developer and movie ...
Gizmodo

The Pope’s AI Warning Could Help Workers Seek Religious Exemptions From Using AI

A North Carolina software engineer already secured an accommodation allowing her to avoid using AI at work based on her religious beliefs. Reading time 2 minutes Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical on AI ...
techtimes

Bot Traffic Passes Humans Online: Cloudflare Says Agentic AI Drove 57.5% Share

shows signage of the Cloudflare logo during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos. INA FASSBENDER/Getty Images For the first time since the web opened to the public, machines now ...
Gizmodo

Researchers Are Using AI to Create Vaccines—and It’s Working

As bad a reputation as artificial intelligence has gotten in the public eye as of late, it’s helping to push medicine further. Case in point, an experimental pan-coronavirus vaccine developed with AI ...
NBC News

Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows

Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance ...
Variety

‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Says Using AI ‘Defeats the Purpose’ of Filmmaking: ‘I Get No Enjoyment From Using Those Tools’

Parsons explained that he sees a future where AI could make some VFX tasks less laborious, but he added that “right now it’s difficult to discuss objectively because there’s so much at stake and so ...
Variety

Martin Scorsese Backs AI Company and Says He’s Using It to Storyboard Movies: ‘We Have to Be Open to How’ Cinema Can ‘Evolve’

Martin Scorsese is the latest Oscar-winning director to hop on the AI wagon, joining the AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser in a bid to “push the bounds of creativity to create deeper and richer ...