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Meta adds new features to Community Notes fact checks; YouTube’s multi-language audio feature for dubbing videos rolls out to all creators Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg; Google Photos upgrades its image-to-video feature with Veo 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Trump administration wants the United States to be the dominant force when it comes to artificial intelligence, and one way the administration hopes to achieve primacy is by bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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