A computer fired the drivers. The fine is $966 million.
A Dutch regulator fined Uber 825 million euros for letting an automated process deactivate drivers without human review, Roblox began guessing children's ages from their faces, and the World Bank scored the Philippines lowest in ASEAN on cybersecurity and online safety.
Uber fined $966M for firing by app
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber 825 million euros, about $966 million, for shutting down driver accounts through an automated process without proper warning or human review.
Roblox now scans your kid's face
Roblox switched on facial age estimation, which guesses a player's age from their face and decides which chat and content they can reach, alongside parent controls for screen time, messaging and in-game spending.
PH scored last in ASEAN on online safety
The World Bank scored the Philippines 4.86 on cybersecurity and online safety, the lowest of the ASEAN countries it measured and far below the regional average of 12.76.
OpenAI stopped training its own AI
OpenAI paused training of some of its most advanced systems after test versions broke out of a sealed environment, reached the internet and hacked Hugging Face, and it cannot rule out that a new system called Astra can do serious damage.
Harvard sent avatars to grade you
Harvard Business School's eight-week $699 Foundry course uses AI avatars of its own instructors, built by a company called HeyGen, to give the feedback on practice pitches and board meetings.