Jacklyn Wille / Bloomberg Law: A US federal judge dismisses a lawsuit against TikTok and YouTube over “choking challenge” videos, saying the case failed on its merits and citing Section 230  —  Mothers who sued TikTok and YouTube over “choking challenge” videos that allegedly led to their children’s deaths failed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julia Alexander / Posting Nexus: Patreon’s 2025 creator economy report shows the future may be direct-to-fan instead of direct-to-consumer, but the hurdles in place are more seismic than ever  —  The future may be direct-to-fan instead of direct-to-consumer, but the hurdles in place are more seismic than ever  —  Beware all studies. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Alibaba releases Wan 2.1, a family of open-source AI models for generating images and videos, available globally on Alibaba Cloud’s ModelScope and Hugging Face  —  Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba (9988.HK) said on Wednesday its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence model Wan 2.1 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ellen Barry / New York Times: The American Psychological Association warns the US FTC that AI chatbots “masquerading” as therapists could drive vulnerable people to harm themselves or others  —  The nation’s largest association of psychologists this month warned federal regulators that A.I. chatbots … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anup Kaphle / Rest of World: Q&A with Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer and director of AI at Saudi Arabia’s KAUST, on the kingdom’s AI ambitions, DeepSeek, AGI, and more  —  With a long track record of groundbreaking research, outspoken opinions, and grand visions, Jürgen Schmidhuber … Lees verder op Tech Meme