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Back to news homeYouTube Improperly Used Targeted Ads on Children’s Videos, Watchdogs Say
After a research report last week found that YouTube’s advertising practices had the potential to undercut the privacy of children watching children’s videos, the company said it limited the collection […]
YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says
This year, BMO, a Canadian bank, was looking for Canadian adults to apply for a credit card. So the bank’s advertising agency ran a YouTube campaign using an ad-targeting system […]
When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty
Avijit Ghosh wanted the bot to do bad things.He tried to goad the artificial intelligence model, which he knew as Zinc, into producing code that would choose a job candidate […]
Amid Sextortion’s Rise, Computer Scientists Tap A.I. to Identify Risky Apps
Almost weekly, Brian Levine, a computer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is asked the same question by his 14-year-old daughter: Can I download this app?Mr. Levine responds by […]
Big Tech Rebounds and Preps for Transformative A.I. Investments
A year ago, the tech industry’s prospects looked bleak. Google’s profit dropped. Shares of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, were in free fall. Business growth at Amazon had slowed to its […]
Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart
A one-armed robot stood in front of a table. On the table sat three plastic figurines: a lion, a whale and a dinosaur.An engineer gave the robot an instruction: “Pick […]
Researchers Poke Holes in Safety Controls of ChatGPT and Other Chatbots
When artificial intelligence companies build online chatbots, like ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard, they spend months adding guardrails that are supposed to prevent their systems from generating hate speech, disinformation […]
Tech Firms Once Powered New York’s Economy. Now They’re Scaling Back.
For much of the last two decades, including during the pandemic, technology companies were a bright spot in New York’s economy, adding thousands of high-paying jobs and expanding into millions […]
How Do the White House’s A.I. Commitments Stack Up?
This week, the White House announced that it had secured “voluntary commitments” from seven leading A.I. companies to manage the risks posed by artificial intelligence.Getting the companies — Amazon, Anthropic, […]