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Meta is using AI technology to search for kids who are lying about their age on Instagram in order to bypass safeguards, the company announced on Monday. When Meta finds an account that it suspects belongs to a teen, the platform will enroll them into a restricted Teen Account, even if the account lists an adult birthday. Teen Accounts, which launched on Instagram last year, enroll young users into an app experience with built-in protections. The safeguards are applied to teens automatically, and limit who can contact a teen on the app and restrict the type of content the account…

This story was originally published on Banking Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Banking Dive newsletter. In the face of increasing generative AI-based deepfake attacks, banks must fight fire with fire and invest more in artificial intelligence themselves, Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr said Thursday. Banks must evolve their use of AI to thwart deepfake attacks with the use of facial recognition, voice analysis and behavioral biometrics, he said during a New York Fed event, and technical solutions can be used to detect subtle inconsistencies that point to the use of AI in audio…

Though Ann Bordetsky’s life started in Chelyabinsk, located in Russia’s Ural Mountains, by 11, her family had moved to Columbia, S.C. “When you grow up in an immigrant family, your entire life is kind of a startup,” she said. So it perhaps was natural that after spending the first part of her career in policy in Washington, D.C., she gravitated to startups. Bordetsky held business development leadership roles at both Twitter and Uber during each company’s rise. She ultimately joined NEA as a partner in 2021, where she now focuses on consumer AI investments. “For me, the through line has…

(Bloomberg) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM) listed the challenges of ensuring export control compliance by its customers, months after the company’s artificial intelligence silicon was found to have flowed to US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies Co. via intermediaries. Most Read from Bloomberg “TSMC’s role in the semiconductor supply chain inherently limits its visibility and information available to it regarding the downstream use or user of final products that incorporate semiconductors manufactured by it,” the Hsinchu, Taiwan-based company said in its latest annual report released on Friday. The world’s largest contract chipmaker said the constraint impedes its ability to prevent unintended end-uses…

This story was originally published on Automotive Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Automotive Dive newsletter. Kia is rolling out its new generative AI-powered voice recognition system called “AI Assistant” on the electric EV3 in Europe, the automaker announced in an press release April 16. The new AI Assistant allows EV3 drivers to have natural, context-aware conversations with their vehicle, which includes the ability to ask open-ended questions and learn more about various vehicle functions. The feature is activated via a steering wheel button or by speaking the phrase “Hey Kia.” Kia’s AI Assistant…

Automation Software Q4 Earnings: SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) is the Best in the Biz Quarterly earnings results are a good time to check in on a company’s progress, especially compared to its peers in the same sector. Today we are looking at SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) and the best and worst performers in the automation software industry. The whole purpose of software is to automate tasks to increase productivity. Today, innovative new software techniques, often involving AI and machine learning, are finally allowing automation that has graduated from simple one- or two-step workflows to more complex processes integral to enterprises. The result…

Sooner or later, the AI industry will consolidate. Which companies among today’s AI unicorns will survive the shakeout, which will be subsumed into larger companies, and which will perish is, of course, impossible to know. But the wide-ranging views regarding the current crop of high-flying AI startups are instructive in their own right, providing a useful gauge of industry and investor expectations. A few weeks ago, we sent out a call for your predictions as to how the largest AI startups will fare over the next one to five years. And dozens of people got back to us, with some…

In light of the U.S. tariff announcements and rising economic uncertainty, I believe companies will instinctively turn to efficiency measures to weather potential disruption. And while efficiency is critical, it’s empathy—together with operational rigor—that will determine who thrives. In an era increasingly shaped by AI, the most memorable customer experiences harness the power of “and”—they are fast and human, automated and deeply personal. Being seen and understood isn’t at odds with scale. It’s what elevates it. Over the past decade, organizations have invested in technology to make customer service faster, more consistent, and less reliant on human intervention. While automated chatbots and…

On episode 828 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is celebrating Good Friday by talking with Gaia Dynamics co-founder and CEO Emil Stefanutti to talk about a tool that couldn’t have come at a better time.  With tariff turmoil causing shippers and customs brokers to scramble, Gaia has launched an AI solution for tariffs and product classifications. We’ll find out how it works and how it can save you money in a high-tariff environment. Glid is building the industry’s first autonomous road-to-rail solution. We’ll meet founder and CEO Kevin Damoa to find out how they’re getting autonomy on track. Plus, DOT…

In January, as business and government leaders descended on Davos, Switzerland, for this year’s meeting of the World Economic Forum, the prevailing wisdom was that American tech giants were winning the race for dominance in artificial intelligence while China, and indeed the whole of Asia, lagged behind. Among the assembled cognoscenti, the outlook for China’s AI companies ranged from bleak to downright dismissive. The share prices of America’s “Magnificent Seven” hovered at all-time highs while Chinese tech stocks languished, dragged down by perceptions that Beijing’s heavy-handed regulation was strangling innovation. Meanwhile, Japan and South Korea weren’t generally considered leaders in…