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☆ The Money Behind the ‘Succession’ Family: Financial Expert Breaks It Down
  + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Governments Want Kids Off Social Media. Why Aren't Platforms Doing It? Local and national governments in the U.S. and Europe want social media companies to do more to keep children off their platforms. Efforts to require age verifications come as evidence shows companies aren’t effectively enforcing their own policies, limiting what children see and do on social media. WSJ reporter Sam Schechner joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss the new laws and the challenges to implement them.
☆ As Preteens Ignore Social-Media Age Limits, Governments Push for Better Checks
  + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Sam Schechner | Jeff Horwitz | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Meta Fined $1.3 Billion Over Data Transfers to U.S.
  + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Emmanuel Macron Courts Elon Musk Amid Duel With U.S. for Battery Supremacy
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Stacy Meichtry | Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Most of Elon Musk’s wealth is tied up in shares of his companies. That means volatility in their stock and valuations can directly sway his net worth. WSJ breaks down the outlook for Musk’s businesses and where he stands among the world’s richest people. Mr. Musk—head of companies including Tesla , Twitter and SpaceX—met with Mr. Macron inside the Élysée Palace. He then attended a lunch at the Palace of Versailles, the historic home of French kings, with dozens of other foreign CEOs as part of an investment conference organized by Mr. Macron.
☆ ChatGPT Ban Lifted in Italy After Data-Privacy Concessions
  + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Microsoft is combining the tech behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT with its Bing search engine. In an interview, WSJ’s Joanna Stern spoke with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the new tools and how AI is going to change search. Photo illustration: Preston Jessee for The Wall Street JournalItaly’s privacy regulator rescinded its temporary ban on ChatGPT after the chatbot’s developer, OpenAI, implemented changes demanded by the regulator, the latest twist in the complex regulatory response to new artificial-intelligence technology. Italy’s ban was one of the first nationwide measures restricting the use of ChatGPT since it exploded globally in popularity in recent months. The Italian Data Protection Authority ordered the ban late last month, saying that OpenAI had “no legal basis” for using the data it had amassed about Italian residents to train its algorithms and that it was too easy for children to access.
☆ Europe to ChatGPT: Disclose Your Sources
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Makers of artificial-intelligence tools such as ChatGPT would be required to disclose copyright material used in building their systems, according to a new draft of European Union legislation slated to be the West’s first comprehensive set of rules governing the rollout of AI. Such an obligation would give publishers and content creators a new weapon to seek a share of profits when their works are used as source material for AI-generated content by tools like ChatGPT. The issue has been one of the thorniest commercial questions to emerge amid a frenzy of AI-powered tools being rolled out or tested by the likes of Microsoft Corp. and Google owner Alphabet Inc.
☆ Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Will Slow Hiring, Won’t Rule Out Future Layoffs
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Salvador Rodriguez | Jeff Horwitz | Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that the company expects to wrap up most layoffs for 2023 in May. Photo: john g mabanglo/ShutterstockMeta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he won’t rule out future layoffs and said he doesn’t expect the social-media company to hire as quickly as it did before the layoffs that began late last year. Preview SubscribeMr. Zuckerberg addressed employees in a virtual Q&A session on Thursday, a day after the company completed its latest round of layoffs. Mr. Zuckerberg told employees that approximately 4,000 employees, primarily in the company’s tech divisions, were affected by the latest cuts, according to a recording of the employee town hall. Since November, Facebook’s parent company has said it would lay off 21,000 employees, or nearly a quarter of its workforce.
☆ ChatGPT and Advanced AI Face New Regulatory Push in Europe
  + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Members of the European Parliament. A group among them have been charged with hammering out a new draft of what the European Union calls its AI Act. PARIS—European Union lawmakers want to give regulators new powers to govern the development of technologies like those behind ChatGPT, the biggest push so far in the West to curb one of the hottest areas in artificial intelligence. The breakneck pace of AI development in recent months requires a new set of rules tailored to powerful, general-purpose AI tools, a group of influential EU lawmakers say in an open letter they plan to publish Monday.
☆ Fresh French Protests Keep Pressure on Macron
  + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
PARIS—French workers mounted a new round of protests against President Emmanuel Macron ’s pension overhaul, a test of their movement just as the country’s constitutional council prepares to rule on whether his plan can become law. Protesters planned marches Thursday in cities including Paris, Marseille and Lyon, also blocked some infrastructure, including a terminal of Paris’s main airport, for the 11th day of demonstrations in three months.
☆ Paris Votes to Ban E-Scooter Rental Companies
  + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A rider on a public hire electric scooter, operated by Tier Mobility SE, in Paris on Friday. PARIS—People in the French capital have voted to ban electric-scooter rental services from its streets in a hotly debated referendum, a dark signal for an urban transportation market that the city helped pioneer. Electric-scooter rentals lost in a landslide, with 89% of the relatively few people who participated Sunday voting against the services, according to final tallies released by the city.
☆ ChatGPT Banned in Italy Over Data-Privacy Concerns
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Margherita Stancati | Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Italy’s privacy regulator ordered a temporary ban on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, saying the artificial-intelligence chatbot has improperly collected and stored information, accelerating the rush by policy makers to roll out new AI rules. The order calls on OpenAI to suspend processing the data of Italian users, which could effectively mean OpenAI must block access to its chatbot from Italy. The platform was still accessible on Friday afternoon.
☆ Reporting on Russia Became More Treacherous After Ukraine Invasion
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | Alexandra Bruell | Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Russian media landscape in which Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich worked is far different and more dangerous than the one in which he and other Western journalists operated before last year’s invasion of Ukraine. Mr. Gershkovich has been detained since Wednesday by Russian authorities, who accuse him of espionage. His arrest, while on a reporting trip in the city of Yekaterinburg, around 800 miles east of Moscow, marks the first detention of an American journalist for allegations of spying since the Cold War. The Journal denied the allegations, and the Biden administration condemned the detention.
☆ Meta to Let Users Opt Out of Some Targeted Ads, but Only in Europe
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Sam Schechner | Jeff Horwitz | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to let European users of Facebook and Instagram opt out of certain highly personalized ads as part of plans to limit the impact of a European Union privacy order, according to people familiar with the planning. Under the plan, Meta, beginning Wednesday, will allow EU users to choose a version of its services that would only target them with ads based on broad categories, such as their age range and general location—without using, as it does now, data such as what videos they watch or content they click on inside Meta’s apps, the people said.
☆ Paris, an Early Pioneer of E-Scooter Rentals, May Be Headed for a U-Turn
  + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Paris is one of the largest e-scooter rental markets worldwide. PARIS—Emma Moreau is planning to vote in just over a week in an unusual referendum: whether the French capital should ban rental services from offering the electric scooters she uses several times a week to zip around town. “It would be a shame if they went away,” the 20-year-old student said on a recent afternoon after swooping through gridlocked traffic on a scooter from U.S.-based Lime. “They’re the fastest way to get anywhere.”
☆ Over a Million French Protesters March Against Macron’s Pension-Age Raise
  + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
PARIS—More than a million protesters took to the streets across France on Thursday in a full-throated rebuke of President Emmanuel Macron ’s decision to push his pension overhaul through Parliament. The turnout, which produced a river of humanity that snaked through the boulevards of Paris, was a sign that public resistance to Mr. Macron’s overhaul isn’t letting up even as the measures are set to become law.
☆ France Pension Protests Test Depth of Resistance to Macron’s Push to Raise Retirement Age
  + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Noemie Bisserbe | Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
PARIS—Workers across France walked off the job and took to the streets in the first organized nationwide demonstration since President Emmanuel Macron pushed his pension overhaul through Parliament. Turnout at the protests on Thursday will provide an indication of how much momentum protesters still have to continue demonstrations now that the bill is set to become law. Spontaneous protests, some of them violent, have erupted around the country since Mr. Macron decided a week ago to invoke a special provision of the French Constitution to bypass Parliament and raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030.
☆ French Protests, Turning Violent, Aim to Override Macron’s Pension Overhaul
  + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Protesters set garbage on fire in Paris, prompting police to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse the groups . President Emmanuel Macron of France might have circumvented Parliament in passing his contentious pension overhaul, but there remains a large constituency—millions of street protesters—who contend they have final say in the matter. Protest movements have long been the final arbiter, albeit an unofficial one, of France’s political system, bringing successive governments to their knees and forcing previous presidents to abandon or even rescind legislation protesters oppose. That is why thousands of protesters have streamed into public squares across France since Mr. Macron exercised Article 49 of the constitution to raise France’s retirement age to 64 from 62 by 2030 without the consent of Parliament.
☆ Violent Protests in France Continue After Macron Pushes Through Pension Overhaul
  + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Protesters in Paris set fire to a barricade on Saturday night in the wake of the government’s move to raise the retirement age to 64. PARIS—Protesters set fires and clashed with police in the French capital and other cities for the third consecutive day after President Emmanuel Macron pushed through his divisive pension overhaul bill without a vote in parliament. A demonstration of several thousand people in southern Paris organized by a far-left union, the CGT, disintegrated into chaos Saturday evening. Live televised footage of the scene showed protesters setting garbage on fire and throwing projectiles at police, who responded by firing tear gas and water cannons at the crowds and charging at them with shields.
☆ Facebook Parent Meta Plans 10,000 Job Cuts in New Round of Layoffs
  + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Meta Platforms Inc. said it would cut roughly 10,000 jobs over the coming months, the Facebook parent’s second wave of mass layoffs in what it says is an effort to be more efficient in a difficult economy. Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an email to staff on Tuesday that the company would in the coming months conduct multiple rounds of job cuts, as well as cancel some projects and reduce hiring rates as part of what he has dubbed the “year of efficiency.”
☆ Facebook Parent Meta to Begin New Round of Job Cuts
  + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Meta says the layoffs are aimed at making Facebook more efficient. Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. said it would cut roughly 10,000 jobs over the coming months, the company’s second major round of layoffs, in an effort to make it more efficient in a difficult economy. Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an email to staff on Tuesday that the company would in the coming months conduct multiple rounds of job cuts, as well as cancel some projects and reduce hiring rates as part of what he has dubbed the “year of efficiency.”
☆ Meta Plans New Layoffs That Could Match Last Year’s in Scope
  + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Jeff Horwitz | Salvador Rodriguez | Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Meta late last year cut 11,000 jobs and sought further attrition through the performance review process. Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is planning additional layoffs to be announced in multiple rounds over the coming months that in total would be roughly the same magnitude as the 13% cut to its workforce last year, according to people familiar with the matter. The new cuts, the first wave of which is expected to be announced next week, are likely to hit non-engineering roles especially hard, the people said. The company is also expected to shut down some projects and teams in conjunction with these cuts.
☆ How Google Became Cautious of AI and Gave Microsoft an Opening
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Miles Kruppa | Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
More than two years ago, a pair of Google researchers started pushing the company to release a chatbot built on technology more powerful than anything else available at the time. The conversational computer program they had developed could confidently debate philosophy and banter about its favorite TV shows, while improvising puns about cows and horses. The researchers, Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer , told colleagues that chatbots like theirs, supercharged by recent advances in artificial intelligence, would revolutionize the way people searched the internet and interacted with computers, according to people who heard the remarks.
☆ EU Warns Twitter Over Incomplete Content-Moderation Report
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Twitter submitted the report as part of a code of conduct it voluntarily agreed to abide a few months ago. Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc. submitted an incomplete report to the European Union about how it is policing its online posts, EU officials said, drawing regulators’ ire just months before the bloc gets the power to fine companies for insufficient content moderation under a new social-media law. Twitter’s report, published Thursday as part of a voluntary code of conduct Twitter and other companies signed last year, lacked quantitative data about how it is tackling what the EU defines as intentionally false or misleading information, the officials said. Regulators plan to warn Twitter that it must do better to comply, one of the officials added.
☆ Google to Roll Out AI Search Features as Microsoft Rivalry Heats Up
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Sam Schechner | Miles Kruppa | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
PARIS—Google plans to give details on new search features powered by artificial intelligence a day after Microsoft Corp. said it was building the technology behind the chatbot ChatGPT into its Bing search engine. At an event Wednesday in the French capital, the Alphabet Inc. unit plans to describe new types of search results that include more direct and lengthy textual responses generated in response to complex queries, according to a screenshot of one such result, rather than the snippets and short direct answers and links to outside sites now available through the search engine.
☆ Google Follows Microsoft in Unveiling AI Search Features
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Sam Schechner | Miles Kruppa | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
PARIS—Google unveiled new artificial intelligence-powered search and map features, capping a flurry of competing announcements by the search giant and rival Microsoft Corp. as they race to bring a new generation of the technology to users. The back-to-back announcements from two of the tech industry’s fiercest competitors are the latest signs of how companies are scrambling to roll out tools that use a type of artificial intelligence that can generate content—from haikus to computer code—and capitalize on a wave of renewed excitement about the potential of AI among businesses and consumers.
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