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Competition watchdog asks for views on Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI

It said the partnership between the two firms, which involves multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment and collaboration in technology development, represented a close, multi-faceted relationship between companies with significant activities in AI foundation models – an area the CMA is monitoring closely for potential competition or consumer protection issues.

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Hollywood stars including Elijah Wood exploited in Russian misinformation campaigns

Cameo told us in statement: “As a matter of company policy, Cameo doesn’t publicly comment on the details of its trust and safety investigations. That said, bookings of the sort you describe would violate Cameo’s community guidelines, and in cases where such violations are substantiated, Cameo will typically take steps to remove the problematic content and suspend the purchaser’s account to help prevent further issues.”

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Meta and TikTok explain response to Dublin riots and misinformation

“On WhatsApp, because it is a fundamentally different tech, it is end-to-end encrypted, in that case we cannot scan the content of the messages, so we cannot go in and scan what is actually happening in the messages the same way we can with posts on Facebook on public profiles. We rely on users reporting the content from WhatsApp in app… and that’s not just because of end-to-end encryption, that’s because of EU law as well.”