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Elon Musk denies report of affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife

Billionaire Elon Musk has denied having an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as he hit out at “character assassinations” about his personal life.

Evening Standard

Tech Giants to Self-regulate in Reducing Harmful Content in New Zealand

Big tech companies agreed on Monday to reduce harmful online content in New Zealand, making a move that critics said dodged the alternative of government regulation. Meta Platforms Inc, Alphabet-owned Google , TikTok, Amazon.com Inc and Twitter had signed a code of practice, said Netsafe, a government-funded internet-safety group, Reuters…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Elon Musk’s alleged affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife led to divorce, report says

Tesla chief allegedly had brief affair with the wife of his longtime friend Sergey Brin

The Independent UK

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Musk denies 'romantic' affair with Google co-founder Brin's wife

Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk said late on Sunday on Twitter that he and Google co-founder Sergey Brin remain friends and denied a report that he had been involved in an affair with Brin's wife Nicole Shanahan.

Reuters

Elon Musk denies report he had affair with Sergey Brin’s wife

Elon Musk denied he had an affair with Sergey Brin’s wife, after the Wall Street Journal reported that the liaison led the Google co-founder to sell his investments in Musk’s companies.

The Times of India

Irony machine: why are AI researchers teaching computers to recognise irony?

What was your first reaction when you heard about Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who announced last month the AI program he was working on had developed consciousness?

The Conversation

Elon Musk denies affair with wife of longtime friend and Google co-founder

Elon Musk has fiercely denied having an affair with the wife of his longtime friend, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, refuting a Wall Street Journal report Sunday alleging a liaison that had ripped asunder not only Brin’s marriage but also the friendship between the two men.

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Social media companies promise to reduce harmful content in New Zealand

Meta, TikTok, Google, Amazon and Twitter sign ‘world first’ voluntary code, which critics say is a move designed to fend off regulation

The Guardian - AU

'Sergey Brin ordered sale of Elon Musk investments after affair with Nicole Shanahan'

SAN FRANCISCO: Google co-founder Sergey Brin instructed his advisers to sell his personal investments in Elon Musk’s companies in recent months after learning that he had a brief affair with his wife, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Times of India

Google fires software engineer who says AI chatbot LaMDA has feelings

Tech giant Google has sacked a senior software engineer who published a transcript of a conversation he had with chatbot LaMDA, in which it says it has a soul and a "very deep fear of being turned off".

ABC News

Elon Musk denies affair with Google founder's wife 'prompting their divorce'

Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google with Larry Page, filed for divorce from entrepreneur Nichole Shanahan earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter

Daily Mirror

Tech giants sign pact to tackle digital harm

A first of its kind agreement between social media platforms and digital stakeholders in NZ aims to set an industry standard for online safety.

Newsroom.co.nz

Elon Musk’s alleged affair with Google co-founder’s wife led to divorce, report says

Tesla chief allegedly had brief affair with the wife of his longtime friend Sergey Brin

The Independent UK

Top 10 tanning salons in Newcastle to keep your glow topped up this summer according to Google reviews

Just because you're not heading abroad this summer doesn't mean you can have a beautiful bronze tan

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Who was Stefan Banach and why is Google celebrating him?

Banach was an original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics and founder of modern functional analysis

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Lawmakers press Commerce secretary over Big Tech ties

WASHINGTON — Two influential progressive lawmakers are raising concerns about what they say is excessive corporate influence at the Commerce Department, escalating a clash between the left wing of the Democratic Party and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

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3 Sites with HD Stock Photos to Boost Your Brand Visuals

Top Sites to Download HD Stock Photos for Business Statistics show that people memorize only 10% of the information they read, while adding an image to a text can improve remembrance by 65%. This data proves that you can use professional, ...

Evening Standard

Google fires software engineer who claimed AI chatbot was sentient

Blake Lemoine was placed on leave in June after claiming the AI resembled ‘a seven or eight-year-old kid’

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The Guardian - UK

If our datacentres cannot take the heat, the UK could really go off the rails

It is understandable that railway infrastructure could not cope with last week’s temperatures, but why did Google and Oracle’s facilities go offline?

Wales Online

The spooky, abandoned old Welsh village and mine nicknamed 'the slaughterhouse' for a very grim reason

It has a tragic past

Tribune News Service

Stephen L. Carter: Political emails may be spam, but Gmail wants to set them free

Lots of people are hopping mad about Google’s proposal to allow political campaign emails to bypass the spam folders of Gmail users. The dispute arose earlier this summer after Google asked the Federal Elections Commission for advice on the legality of a “pilot program” to make it easier for political…

The Guardian - UK

Google fires software engineer who claims AI chatbot is sentient

Company said Blake Lemoine violated Google policies and that his claims were ‘wholly unfounded’

Asharq Al-Awsat

Google Fires Software Engineer Who Claimed Its AI Chatbot Is Sentient

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person.

Reason

Authors Locked Out of Files Because of Their Ideological Content?

Today's post by Prof. Victor Mair (Language Log) also led me to this story, which is covered in the Wall Street Journal (Wenxin Fan) (paywalled) and also at Gizmodo (Passant Rabie) (unpaywalled) and MIT Technology Review (Zeyi Yang); I quite from Gizmodo: A Chinese software developer is facing backlash after…

The Independent UK

Democrats widen scrutiny of tech over abortion data privacy

Democratic lawmakers are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting the personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion, as lawmakers, regulators and the Biden administration grapple with the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling ending the constitutional protections for abortion

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