Financial Times
The UK is at risk of losing Europe’s tech crown (Financial Times)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 06/10/2024 - 11:41Billionaires Sunil Mittal and Mukesh Ambani take on Elon Musk in India’s internet space race (Financial Times)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 06/10/2024 - 11:40Jonathan Kanter pushes for ‘meaningful intervention’ over concentration of power in artificial intelligence sector (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/06/2024 - 06:31Elon Musk’s X wins Australia court fight over censorship of church stabbing video (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 05/13/2024 - 06:25Is there a middle way on children and smartphones? This researcher thinks so
The debate on children’s use of smartphones can veer towards two extremes. There are those who see a generation made fragile by technology. They point to studies showing that social media does not just correlate with poor mental health; it causes it. The other extreme sees this as another misguided moral panic, such as the one once aimed at video games. But there are possibilities for nuance and compromise. Sonia Livingstone is a social psychologist who leads research at the London School of Economics into children’s digital lives. Livingstone’s research has led her to focus on two points.
TikTok to automatically label AI-generated user content in global first (Financial Times)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 05/09/2024 - 08:46Opinion | TikTok ban will accelerate the ‘splinternet’ (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 05/03/2024 - 06:21Satellite group SES to acquire Intelsat in $3.1 billion deal (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:12The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal
The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to train artificial intelligence models on the publisher’s archived content, in the latest agreement between the Microsoft-backed start-up and a global news publisher. Under the terms of the deal, the FT will license its material to the ChatGPT maker to help develop generative AI technology that can create text, images and code indistinguishable from human creations. The agreement also allows ChatGPT to respond to questions with short summaries from FT articles, with links back to FT.com.