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ChatGPT’s Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need | Robin Kirman

What young students stand to lose is more than cognitive skill: it’s a reliable sense of their own minds In August, OpenAI launched Teen Mode – a version of ChatGPT in which every user under 18 will automatically be enrolled – a year after a lawsuit alleged that ChatGPT had contributed to the suicide of a 16-year-old named Adam Raine. For years, the tech industry has contested any causal link between its products and the harms named in a wave of similar lawsuits, each alleging that the companies had not merely failed to protect children but had deliberately designed products to exploit them. C

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International

China touts tech, AI cred at world Web Summit

China is flexing its technological muscles at the global Web Summit in Lisbon from Tuesday, showcasing dancing robots and low-cost artificial intelligence models as Beijing weathers claims that it spied…

France 24
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International

Banking crisis in Paraguay: almost half of the population deprived of their money

The new president of Paraguay, Pedro Alliana, asked all the country's ministers and senior officials to resign on Monday, November 9, as part of a vast reshuffle after the fall of his predecessor Santiago Peña. The country announced that it had launched steps with the United States, Luxembourg and Argentina to find the funds embezzled in the banking scandal that caused the dismissal of its predecessor.

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International

Ethiopia: construction of a new dam to strengthen its energy independence

COP31, which discusses climate change, began this Monday, November 9 in Türkiye. It is in this context that electrification emerges as a major subject. Donald Trump has reignited the controversy surrounding the Great Renaissance Dam, accusing Addis Ababa of appropriating the waters of the Nile. Ethiopia is also developing a huge hydroelectric project on the Omo River to strengthen its electricity production and export its energy across the region.

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