Meta names Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump adviser, as president and vice chairman

Facebook owner Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration adviser and longtime finance executive, as president and vice chairman of the tech giant. Powell McCormick previously served on Meta’s board of directors — where, the company notes, she was “deeply engaged” in accelerating its artificial intelligence push across platforms. In her new…

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Altered and misleading images proliferate on social media after Maduro’s capture

AI-generated images, old videos and altered photos proliferated on social media in the hours following former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s capture. Several of these images quickly went viral, fueling false information online.  CBS News analyzed circulating images by comparing dubious images to verified content and using publicly available tools such as reverse image search. In…

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Grok chatbot allowed users to create digitally altered photos of minors in “minimal clothing”

Elon Musk’s Grok, the chatbot developed by his company xAI, acknowledged “lapses in safeguards” on the AI platform that allowed users to generate digitally altered, sexualized photos of minors. The admission comes after multiple users alleged on social media that people are using Grok to generate suggestive images of minors, in some cases stripping them…

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