Technology stocks were muted early on Thursday after a strong session on Wednesday, with investment in artificial-intelligence technology still top of the agenda. Microsoft shares were down 0.3% in premarket trading as it faces regulators’ questions over its artificial-intelligence investment. The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Microsoft structured a deal to employ Inflection AI’s co-founder and almost all of its employees to avoid an antitrust investigation, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -A Meta plan to use personal data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models without seeking consent came under fire from advocacy group NOYB on Thursday, which called on privacy enforcers across Europe to stop such use. NOYB (none of your business) urged national privacy watchdogs to act immediately, saying recent changes in Meta's privacy policy, which come into force on June 26, would allow it to use years of personal posts, private images or online tracking data for the Facebook owner's AI technology.