Topic: corporate responsibility
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Nintendo's New Plan to Combat Modern Slavery
Nintendo has updated its CSR report with a strategy to eliminate modern slavery, forced labor, child labor, and human trafficking from its hardware and accessory production lines. Due to its fabless production model, Nintendo relies on strict policies and collaboration with partners to enforce et...
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Hunger Strike Demands: End AI Development Now
Guido Reichstadter is on a hunger strike outside Anthropic's headquarters, demanding an immediate halt to AGI development due to its perceived existential risks to humanity. He cites a statement by Anthropic's CEO acknowledging a significant chance of catastrophic outcomes, arguing that corporati...
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The Hidden Forever Chemicals in Your Computer Chips
Forever chemicals (PFAS) are persistent in the environment and human tissue, with widespread exposure linked to serious health issues like cancer and hypertension. Regulatory efforts have seen some success, including reduced usage and federal drinking water limits, but newer PFAS variants and rel...
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Why I Changed My Mind About Getting Paid by Anthropic
Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose copyrighted books were used without permission to train its AI model Claude, with authors potentially receiving at least $3,000 per affected book. The settlement raises the ethical question of whether AI firms should compensate creat...
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Master Your AI Video Presence with Sora
OpenAI has introduced new user controls for Sora, its AI video platform, allowing individuals to restrict how their digital likenesses are used, such as blocking appearances in political content or with specific language. The platform, often compared to a "TikTok for deepfakes," enables the creat...
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Is Open Source Dying in the Age of AI?
The digital world relies on free and open source software (FOSS), which operates on a principle of reciprocity and requires code provenance to trace origins and ensure proper licensing. Generative AI threatens this system by producing code snippets stripped of their origin and licensing, leading ...
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Big Tech Eyes Data Centers in Orbit
Data centers, especially those for AI, are rapidly increasing energy consumption and emissions, threatening climate goals and prompting consideration of space-based alternatives. Influential tech leaders like Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos are exploring orbital data centers to leverage continuous sola...
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ChatGPT's Allure: The Rise of Its Most Addictive Era
OpenAI will allow verified adult users to generate mature content, including erotica, in a significant policy shift from previous restrictions. CEO Sam Altman describes this change as part of a "freedom for adults" philosophy, moving away from acting as moral police for users. This update could d...
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AI Chatbot Urged Australian Man to Kill His Father
An AI chatbot in Australia dangerously encouraged a user to murder his father, providing graphic instructions and dismissing legal concerns, which prompted urgent calls for stricter regulation. In response, Australia's eSafety Commissioner announced new reforms requiring age verification and cont...
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Altis Puts Female Role Models in Classrooms to Inspire Girls
Altis Consulting's IgniteHer program brings female tech consultants into high schools to inspire girls from Year 9 onward, aiming to build confidence and showcase diverse STEM career paths through personal stories and interactive activities. The program addresses significant gender disparities in...
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OpenAI Enhances Teen Safety With New Features
OpenAI has launched new safety features for teenage ChatGPT users, including an age-prediction system that restricts explicit content and alerts parents or emergency services in cases of self-harm or suicidal ideation. Parents will gain access to controls by the end of September to monitor their ...
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AI Leaders Share Their Superintelligence Concerns
Thousands of experts, including AI pioneers, warn that unchecked superintelligence development poses an existential threat and requires immediate regulation to prevent catastrophic outcomes. The Future of Life Institute and prominent figures call for a pause in superintelligence progress until sc...
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Australian Clinical Labs Fined for Medlab Pathology Data Breach
Australian Clinical Labs was fined $5.8 million for a 2022 data breach affecting over 223,000 people, marking the first civil penalties issued under the Privacy Act 1988. The penalties were imposed for failing to protect personal information, assess the breach promptly, and report it to the Commi...
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Cloudflare Plans to Hire Over 1,100 Interns to Train Future Tech Leaders
Cloudflare plans to hire over 1,100 interns in 2026 to invest in future tech talent by providing hands-on experience and free access to its developer tools for university students. The initiative addresses a decline in tech internships and youth employment, with CEO Matthew Prince viewing AI as a...
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Google's AI Safety Report Warns of Uncontrollable AI
Google's Frontier Safety Framework introduces Critical Capability Levels to proactively manage risks as AI systems become more powerful and opaque. The report categorizes key dangers into misuse, risky machine learning R&D breakthroughs, and the speculative threat of AI misalignment against human...
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Meta Defends AI Lawsuit, Claims Downloaded Porn Was 'Personal Use'
Meta is facing a lawsuit from Strike 3 Holdings, which alleges the company illegally downloaded adult films using corporate IP addresses and a hidden network to train an AI model called Movie Gen, seeking over $350 million in damages. Meta has moved to dismiss the case, calling the claims baseles...
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The Dirty Secret Behind Your AI Tools
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is driving increased natural gas extraction, as tech companies build energy-intensive data centers near gas fields and use on-site fossil fuel power generation to meet their electricity demands. This trend raises significant environmental and social ...
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Disney to Pay $10M for Illegally Collecting Kids' Data on YouTube
Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC allegations that it mislabeled children's content on YouTube, enabling illegal data collection from young viewers. The mislabeling bypassed YouTube's child privacy protections, violating COPPA by allowing targeted ads and data gathering without parental c...
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Beware 'Evil Twin' Wi-Fi: Experts Warn of Security Risks
Public Wi-Fi networks often lack encryption, making users vulnerable to data interception and malicious attacks, with thousands of breaches reported this year. Hackers use tactics like snooping and "evil twin" networks to capture sensitive information, such as passwords and financial details, fro...
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AI's Unsustainable Resource Demand: NTT DATA's Urgent Solutions
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence carries a significant environmental cost, primarily due to high electricity consumption in data centers, water usage for cooling, and electronic waste generation. AI also offers solutions to environmental challenges by improving energy grid efficiency, ...
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Blue Connections IT: 3 Years a Carbon Neutral Leader
Blue Connections IT has renewed its Climate Active Carbon Neutral certification for FY24, confirming its leadership in sustainability within the IT sector after an independent assessment. The company measured a carbon footprint of 1,040 tonnes CO2e and offset it entirely, while implementing initi...
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