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In July’s digital and AI news: Efforts to ban social media for those under 16, the OAIC’s lawsuit against Medibank over security, and Luma Labs’ new AI text-to-video tool. Apple reveals its AI goals with "Apple Intelligence," while Google’s algorithm insights leak, and upcoming privacy laws raise corporate concerns.
It seems that there is increasing political momentum behind a ban on social media for children under 16, despite the potential challenges in enforcing such a law.
The OAIC is suing Medibank for what amounts to cyber security negligence for the way it "secured" customer's private data. A good lesson about why all executives need to take security seriously.
After having text to video teased by OpenAI, we finally have a publicly available AI tool that can take words and turn them into high quality AI video - say hello to Luma Lab's "Dream Machine".
The IMF has started loudly ringing alarm bells about the impact AI will have on inequality and massive labour disruptions. They are calling for swift government action globally.
In August new Privacy Law legislation is due to hit parliament with a lot of discussion around how organisations need to prepare. Sean Jenner, CEO of Big4, shared some insights on their approach.
Apple laid out their AI plans, announcing Apple Intelligence and a partnership with OpenAI. For now though, it's all talk and it won't be until later this year that we see these tools in the wild.
A leak of over 2,000 pages of internal Google documents reveals insights into the complex functioning of how Google Search works. From the type of data Google collects and uses, its approach for smaller sites, as well as sites Google uplifts for sensitive topics - it's all there.
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