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Users of Meta’s new “Twitter killer” Threads gripe that the app — which has amassed more than 100 million users in less than a week since it went online — is noticeably draining their phone batteries. “Is Threads just …. murderous to anyone else’s battery?” a user of the app wrote on their Twitter page. “I’m not going to use …

Threads, the new “Twitter killer” app rolled out by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has surpassed 100 million users in less than a week while Elon Musk’s micro-blogging site has seen traffic “tanking,” according to a tech executive. The initial burst of success for Threads has fueled a war of words between Musk and Zuckerberg. The Twitter boss referred to his …

Stand-up comic Sarah Silverman has failed separate lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta, claiming copyright infringement after their AI models allegedly used her content for training without her permission. Silverman, along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, allege that OpenAI and Meta’s respective artificial intelligence-backed language models were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing the authors’ works, according to the suit. …

A new kind of cold war is here. Military forces around the globe are in a covert arms race to develop terrifying new AI weaponry, a new documentary exploring the future of artificial intelligence in battle reveals. “World leaders in Russia and China, people in the US military have said, whoever gets the advantage in AI is going to have …

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t practice what he preaches when it comes to public safety. The tech tycoon’s company has spent more than $40 million on Zuckerberg’s personal security over the past three years — while at the same time his family-run foundation has donated millions of dollars to groups that want to defund or even abolish the police. Since …

We might be welcoming our robot overlords in the near future. As if artificial intelligence wasn’t taking enough jobs of late, now AI is suggesting they could potentially be president. A panel of braggadocious AI-powered humanoid bots boasted that they were better equipped to run the world than humans at a United Nations summit on Friday. “Humanoid robots have the …

Apple will gradually introduce its $3,500-apiece Vision Pro virtual reality headsets as part of a slow, piecemeal rollout that will require customers to make in-person appointments at the tech giant’s retail locations beginning early next year, according to a report. The move comes on the heels of reports that Apple has run into major production snafus that will limit its …

Electric-vehicle maker Tesla rolled out a new program globally allowing buyers to earn extra incentives through referrals from existing customers, a strategy long used by traditional automakers to boost sales. The incentive, which Tesla dubbed as “Refer and Earn” on its websites, is equivalent to about $500 in cash back for buyers in the US who purchase Model 3 and Model Y. The US …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s new “Twitter killer” app Threads quickly found itself embroiled in a censorship controversy after warning users that Donald Trump Jr. may be a source of misinformation — before the firm quickly backtracked. Threads users who tried to follow the 45th president’s eldest son were greeted with the message: “Are you sure you want to follow donaldjtrumpjr?” …

Robots presented at an AI forum in Switzerland on Friday said they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems — and vowed not steal humans’ jobs or rebel against us. But, in the world’s first human-robot press conference, they gave mixed responses on whether they should submit to stricter regulation. The nine humanoid robots gathered at the …