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Meta rolls out new AI tools to detect ads that secretly lead to child sexual abuse material

October 8, 2026
Meta announced Wednesday that it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026. At the same time, the company is rolling out new AI tools to find ads and accounts that may be used to secretly direct people to illegal child abuse material. More than 97% of the content Meta acted on was found by its systems before…
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LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature

October 7, 2026
If you’re looking for a document editor that doesn’t use artificial intelligence, LibreOffice may be just the software for you. The Document Foundation, the nonprofit software maker behind the open source document editor LibreOffice, said in a blog post this week that while it does not reject AI out of hand, it “will not add” AI to its software for the foreseeable…
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Hot Girl Hotline is like ‘Dear Abby’ for the AI era

October 6, 2026
Women throughout history have always sought out relationship advice, whether from newspaper columnists like “Dear Abby,” letters to Cosmo, or just chatting with girlfriends. In the social media era, you can instead post anonymously on Reddit relationship forums or look to social media creators who discuss the topic. Now, two sisters are launching a startup for young women, Hot Girl…
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Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?

October 5, 2026
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify President Donald Trump hosted many of the biggest names in artificial intelligence this week – in part to announce that the U.S. government isn’t calling it artificial intelligence anymore. Now it’s super intelligence. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed the…
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