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So-called 'mom-influencers' often cite personal testimonies to passionately endorse detox sprays or bath treatments, claiming without evidence that they help rid children of toxins

TikTok Moms Nurture 'Detox For Kids' Misinformation

A TikTok army of American moms claiming to be "detox" specialists is pushing unproven treatments for childhood behavioral disorders -- while hiding that their misinformation is actually a marketing campaign aimed at making money.
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A Google Pixel 8 pro phone is displayed during a product launch event  in New York

Google's New Phone To Run AI On-device

Google on Wednesday said its latest premium-priced Pixel phone would have powerful generative AI models running independently on the device, as the search engine giant seeks to lure buyers away from the latest iPhone.
Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth tells AFP the Silicon Valley tech giant aims to make generative artificial intelligence tools easy for people to use

Meta Technology Chief Defends Tech Titan's AI Strategy

Meta's chief technology officer is quick to push back on assertions that the company has fallen behind rivals like ChatGPT in the explosive surge across the tech industry in generative AI. "The majority of the world's population will have their first experience of generative artificial intelligence with us," Andrew "Boz" Bosworth told AFP at the company's recent Connect conference for developers.
Former French international Zinedine Zidane

Video Games Give Sports Stars Second Life

The post-retirement careers of the biggest sports stars can be fascinating to watch -- Viagra ads, property ventures, crypto projects -- but one option is becoming a sure-fire winner: put your face on the cover of a video game.
"Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin arrives to attend a book signing in France in 2014, awaited by more than a thousand fans

'Game Of Thrones' Author, Other Writers Sue ChatGPT Creator Over Copyrights

"Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin and other best-selling fiction writers have filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the tech startup of violating their copyrights to fuel its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. The Authors Guild, an organization representing writers, and several novelists including Martin, John Grisham and Jodi Picoult, accused the California-based company of using their books "without permission" to train ChatGPT's "large language models," algorithms capable of producing human-sounding text responses based on simple queries, according to the lawsuit.
An attendee looks on during a media tour of the new Amazon headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on September 20, 2023

Amazon Empowers Alexa With Generative AI

Amazon's popular Alexa digital assistant is about to be supercharged with the powers of generative artificial intelligence, the company said on Wednesday, as the tech giant steps into the AI race dominated by ChatGPT, Google and Microsoft.
Google's new AI tool can read DNA like a language, and see immediately if a word substitution will change the meaning of that sentence, the company says

Google AI Tool Predicts Danger Of Genetic Mutations

Researchers at Google DeepMind, the tech giant's artificial intelligence arm, on Tuesday introduced a tool that predicts whether genetic mutations are likely to cause harm, a breakthrough that could help research into rare diseases.

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