Tech News: Facebook Locks Out Users

In Season 2 of Shell Game, journalist Evan Ratliff tells a story of entrepreneurship in the AI age; or, how he tried to build a real company, run by fake people. Meet Kyle Law and Megan Flores, Evan’s AI agent cofounders, as he puts to the test the claims about an emerging future ...  Show more

Who’s afraid of China’s open-source AI models? Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) breaks down the secret battle between Silicon Valley and Chinese AI labs, why Anthropic was surveilling China-based users, and whether "adversarial distillation" is a national security threat or jus ...  Show more

Kara and Scott are back! They talk about Zuckerberg's supposed shift towards more privacy on Facebook and, well, we'll believe it when we see it. Meanwhile Congress is ramping up its efforts on shaking up how we think of antitrust and big tech companies. They get into what they e ...  Show more

In part 2 of Jefferson Graham's series about how tech firms track us, today the spotlight is on Facebook.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 

Bumble’s new AI tool identifies and blocks scam accounts, fake profiles; Tinder’s new warnings inform users when they’re potentially being inappropriate; Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Facebook owned Oculus in October is changing the rules, and saying that you won't be able to play the Virtual Reality games unless you have a Facebook ID. What's a parent to do who doesn't want their teen on Facebook? Jefferson Graham and USA TODAY consumer tech editor Michelle M ...  Show more