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Ryan Autullo / Bloomberg Law:
Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent  —  Google will pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to resolve two privacy lawsuits claiming the tech giant tracks Texans' personal location …
Financial Times:
The UK stopped asking Uber to pay VAT on the full cost of rides, instead collecting VAT only on its commission, after a setback in a similar dispute with Bolt  —  HMRC has stopped demanding ridesharing company pay VAT on the full cost of rides after legal setback in related matter
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A study finds that asking LLMs to be concise in their answers, particularly on ambiguous topics, can negatively affect factuality and worsen hallucinations  —  Turns out, telling an AI chatbot to be concise could make it hallucinate more than it otherwise would have.
Conor Hale / Fierce Biotech:
The US FDA plans to deploy AI tools to all centers by June 30, 2025 to speed up scientific reviews, after completing a pilot and naming its first AI chief  —  FDA Artificial Intelligence AI and Machine Learning Biotech  —  The FDA has appointed its first chief artificial intelligence officer …
Lauren Kent / CNN:
Pope Leo XIV says he chose his name to honor Pope Leo XIII's work during the first industrial revolution, as AI poses challenges in a new industrial revolution  —  Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis …
Danai Nesta Kupemba / BBC:
President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico is suing Google for ignoring requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US  —  Mexico is suing Google for ignoring repeated requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps for US users, President Claudia Sheinbaum says.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
SoundCloud quietly changed its policies to allow the company to use audio uploaded by users on its platform to “inform, train, develop or serve as input to AI”  —  SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.

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Anderson Cooper is leaving 60 Minutes after almost 20 years; sources say he has decided to pass on a renewal offer with CBS

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