Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and analyzed the AI Overviews that came back. Google showed the overviews inconsistently and leaned on a small pool of sources, chief among them its own platform YouTube. Whether earlier safeguards against AI answers on election questions still apply, Google left open.

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OpenAI has disrupted a covert Russian influence campaign that used ChatGPT to generate social media posts by banning a cluster of accounts. The operators accessed the platform through VPNs from Russia and promoted the fictitious "International Burke Institute," including German-language Telegram content critical of the EU and the German government. The campaign's reach stayed small, but OpenAI warns the infrastructure behind it could have been scaled up over time.

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Three out of four Americans now oppose having a data center built near them, up from an even split just a year ago, according to a Heatmap News survey. 61 percent are "strongly opposed."

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