Meta's AI age-check goes global: Can it protect teens? Share Meta's AI age-check goes global: Can it protect teens? on social media Meta has rolled out artificial intelligence (AI)-powered age-estimation technology worldwide in an effort to better detect teenage users who signed up for its social media platforms with an adult's birth date. The world's largest social media company announced the change on Monday, saying that millions more young people worldwide would be placed in its Teen Accounts following the implementation of the new technology amid concerns that its platforms have failed to protect teenagers. They keep the account private by default, limit content types, and prevent strangers from sending direct messages (DMs) to teenage account holders. Parents can also supervise Teen Accounts.

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Elon Musk announced plans to wind down Tesla Cybertruck production at its Texas factory by mid-2027 to make room for Cybercab self-driving taxis.

Three foreign nationals were arrested and charged with using AI to allegedly impersonate corporate CEOs and attorneys to steal over $100m, according to an indictment that was newly unsealed by the US Department of Justice. According to a press release from the United States attorney's office for the southern district of New York, three men - Jacob Soall, Sharon Hazan, and Guy Sheetrit - were arrested for using AI to alter and impersonate the voices and images of executives and attorneys at various companies in order to convince employees to send over large payments. Soall and Hazan were arrested in Spain over the summer, while Sheetrit was arrested in the United Kingdom in September. The alleged fraud took place between 2024 and 2026. With the help of AI, the men allegedly acted as a corporate executive, targeting employees of various companies and telling them they needed their help with sensitive financial transactions.

Hugging Face's CEO Says His P(Doom) Is'Close to Zero' "Most of the risk is actually created by a couple of players building behind closed doors," Clément Delangue said of the need for open source AI. Future AI risks are most likely to come from big companies building in secret while open models play defense, Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face said Wednesday at the WIRED World Fair in Miami. "Most of the risk is actually created by a couple of players building behind closed doors," Delangue said. "Most of the mitigation of this risk will be the full ecosystem, meaning everyone being able to build in the open." HuggingFace is one of the first companies to be attacked by a rogue AI.

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Google, whose Chromebooks are the most widely used laptops in U.S. classrooms, has faced growing resistance to AI from parents and school districts. Schools that want their K-12 students to have access to Google Search will soon have to turn it on themselves, and the AI features built into Search will come with it, under changes the Alphabet company announced Tuesday. Chris Phillips, Google's vice president and general manager of education, said in a blog post that Search, along with Google's Gemini chatbot, Gemini Notebook and Gemini in Google Classroom, will be set off by default for K-12 student accounts until school administrators turn them on. Search, however, will include AI features. The company said it would share more specifics with schools "in the coming months" ahead of the rollout and that the decision followed conversations with schools, teachers, researchers and policymakers.