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The European Union launched a probe Thursday into Big Tech’s use of artificial intelligence and its handling of computer-generated deepfakes, ramping up scrutiny of a technology officials fear could disrupt elections. The inquiry is aimed at companies including Meta, Microsoft, Snap, TikTok and X, focusing on how the tech giants plan to manage the risks of generative artificial intelligence as they increasingly roll out consumer-facing AI tools. “The Commission is requesting these services to provide more information on their respective mitigation measures for risks linked to generative AI, such as so-called ‘hallucinations’ where AI provides false information, the viral dissemination…

Lucie, the Shiba Inu marketing lead, has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to explain why KNINE presale investors have not received their tokens. The content specialist provided an educational piece regarding token vesting and cliff with respect to K9 Finance DAO’s official native token, KNINE. KNINE Presale For context, some crypto investors who participated in the KNINE presale earlier this year have complained that they have yet to receive their tokens despite the presale tokens selling out on January 31, 2024, as disclosed by K9 Finance founder Buzz. The K9 team allocated 76.02 billion KNINE (7.6% of the total supply)…

Former President Donald Trump told an entirely fictional story on Saturday about how he had supposedly outwitted his Democratic opponents by releasing “the tape” of the 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that was a key factor in Trump’s first impeachment. Speaking at a Saturday campaign rally in Ohio, Trump claimed he let Democrats make “wilder and wilder” claims about what he said to Zelensky, “and then we released the tape.” Trump proceeded to claim that when Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, who was then the speaker of the House, “heard” this tape, she was angry that she had been…

Real Madrid winger Vinicius Jr. warned his teammates and the football world that “the good stuff is coming” following another fantastic brace against Osasuna on Saturday. The Brazilian scored his fifth and sixth goals of the month in El Sadar, as Los Blancos cruised to a 4-2 win, and could have easily had a hat trick. Post match, Vinicius revealed that he doesn’t think about the chances he converts and instead worries about the ones missed in order to “score more goals”. “I don’t think about the chances I score, but I do think now after the game when I…

By Helen Coster (Reuters) – Five states will hold their presidential nominating contests on Tuesday, a week after both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump netted enough delegates to clinch their parties’ nomination. Though the two candidates are now looking ahead to their general election rematch in November, Biden is contending with a protest movement from Democratic voters who oppose his backing of Israel’s attacks against Hamas in Gaza. The movement, which has had varying degrees of success in states that have already held primaries, is asking voters to mark “uncommitted” on their ballots to register their opposition…

By Daphne Psaledakis and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers are refusing to release millions of dollars in funding that Washington views as critical to help tackle spiraling violence in Haiti, in another potential stumbling block for the international force. Representatives Michael McCaul, Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, and Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on Senate Foreign Relations, have both put “holds” on $40 million requested by the U.S. State Department, warning the administration they need “a lot more details” before it gets more funding. Congressional aides said the money being held could…

When Volkswagen decided to relaunch the Scout SUV brand it took a very unusual step. It created a new subsidiary company to design, build and sell vehicles targeted, almost entirely, at a single market: the United States. Its status as a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, similar to Audi and Porsche, gives some indication of just how important this project is to VW. The revived and revamped Scout Motors will introduce its new brand of all-electric off-road-capable SUVs, kind of like Rivian. But VW is banking on something Rivian doesn’t have, a backstory. An avid fanbase in America fondly remembers Scout.…

Crypto Price Prediction: The cryptocurrency market initiated the second half of March on a bearish note with the leading digital assets Bitcoin and Ethereum showcasing around a 4% drop in the last 24 hours. Amid this decline, the market witnessed 166,507 traders liquidated, totaling $532.72 million in losses, as per Coinglass. The most notable incident involved a single liquidation order on Bitmex for a LINKUSD trade valued at $38.83 million. The total crypto market cap stands at $2.52 Trillion projecting a 4.27% drop since yesterday. The recent market downturn has significantly impacted the altcoin sector, with leading assets experiencing noticeable…

GOP Sen. Rounds: ‘I’m endorsing the Republican nominee for the presidency’ Republican Sen. Mike Rounds tells CNN’s Dana Bash that the election is a “binary choice” and that Donald Trump is “the best choice of the two choices that we have got.”

Ukraine is reaching deeper into its stocks of Cold War-vintage leftovers to find weapons—any weapons—that can strike military and industrial targets deep inside Russia. Somewhere, somehow, someone seems to have found an additional batch of 1970s-vintage Tupolev Tu-141/143 drones—crude, hulking but nevertheless potentially effective vehicles that the Ukrainians last deployed a year ago, four decades after they initially retired from Soviet service. Social-media users highlighted recent photos apparently depicting the wreckage of a Tu-143 in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, just north of Ukraine. It seems the drone was part of Ukraine’s ongoing deep-strike campaign targeting Russian infrastructure—including oil facilities—in regions near…