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Major tech companies including Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft are still failing to do enough to detect and stop child sexual abuse, eSafety has claimed.

The Spanish PM said his government would begin the process of passing legislation from as early as next week.

Victoria's east is set to become home to a $10 billion data centre that will support the technology necessary for artificial intelligence systems.

A fact-finding mission should investigate potential crimes against humanity committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, according an independent UN expert.

Xi Jinping's ambition is to occupy a central position in a reshaped international system, not to lead a permanent grouping of sanctioned or crisis-prone states.

The findings of a newly released study have challenged one-size-fits-all rules and blanket bans, as the Australian government's social media ban for children under 16 has been in effect for over a month. 

Wikipedia is celebrating 25 years of the online encyclopedia and the enormous impact its had, while looking forward to its future. But some controversies from the past refuse to die.

The X AI is not creating sexually explicit images of women on its own, but the software "facilitates their abuse" acting on the requests of men "eager to violate women".

New laws in the UK that would outlaw the generation of sexual deepfakes are set to come into force this week.

For more than a week, X's AI bot Grok has been generating sexual images of women and children at the request of other users, even when they ask it not to.

Human rights groups say more than 40 people have been killed in protest-related violence since last month.

To understand whether these apps are worth our while, we first need to consider why staying focused is so difficult in the first place.

After 401 years, the Danish postal service has ended letter deliveries as the country fully embraces the digital age.

AI is becoming a regular presence at homework time in many Chinese households. Experts say where families draw the line matters more than the technology itself.

From the rise of misinformation and AI to escalating political tensions, vast economic disparity, and the erosion of social bonds, the vibe shift is now understood as a deep, unsettling change in our collective reality.

Leaders in Germany, France, Spain and the European Union slam the move as "intimidation and coercion".

AI-generated images of Bondi gunman Naveed Akram in the Philippines and a fabricated Facebook page are spreading online. And an image of police officers taken out of context is debunked by ABC NEWS Verify.

This is where we parents should remind ourselves of the power of the loving boundary: not to bind and constrain, but to properly demonstrate that we hold our kids and their safety in our mind.

The lawsuit is one of a growing number of wrongful death legal actions against AI chatbot makers across the country.

A mother of three is urgently trying to regain access to her social media business accounts after being locked out during the blanket under-16s social media ban.