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X’s plan to interfere with the election

Elon Musk’s effort to deny Kamala Harris an election victory is already underway. Can it work?

While large national newspapers and broadcast networks do most of the journalism that the rest of the ecosystem feeds on, voters have never had an easier time creating what researcher Renee DiResta calls “bespoke realities” from their publications and influencers of choice. (Satya Nadella, Brad Smith, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz / Microsoft) Amazon Web Services’ bid to buy nuclear power for several data centers in Pennsylvania for AI was rejected by US energy regulators. (Hannah Murphy and Cristina Criddle / Financial Times) Meta plans to use an AI tool, which it calls an “adult classifier,” to catch young Instagram users who lie about their age, director of product management for youth and social impact Allison Hartnett said.

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