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In Brief: Microsoft will discontinue sales of its emotion-reading tech feature, according to Microsoft’s Azure AI unit

This follows increased concern from US and EU lawmakers over how biometric technology is being used by companies, and Mircrosoft’s own research that resulted in a lack of consensus that the mechanism worked.

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Children’s Privacy: New age-check tools touted by Instagram seem more about age classification (and data collection??) than safety of kids

June 28, 2022
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Disney and Universal Sue Midjourney for Copyright Infringement

June 12, 2025

There’s no shortage of lawsuits by publishers against genAI platforms for copyright infringement; now major studios are getting with the program. Walt Disney and Comcast’s Universal are accusing Midjourney of using some of their best known characters (think Darth Vader and the Minions) in its AI image generator — a “bottomless pit of plagiarism,” they say. No response yet from Midjourney.

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