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🤖 Google's AI moderation system decided a manga artist's own drawings were a copyright violation, and the company banned his entire account because of it.

Masahiro Itosugi, a Japanese manga creator, was uploading old files of his own work to Google Drive when a warning appeared on his screen.

The files were flagged as not allowed. He submitted an appeal for re-review. It was rejected. The account was terminated.

The ban did not stop at Drive. He lost access to Gmail, YouTube, every Google service tied to that account, and the third-party sites he used Google to log into.

This fits a wider pattern. Google has banned other users in similar ways, including parents whose ordinary family photos auto-synced to Photos and were later flagged.

In most cases the moderation and the appeal are both handled by automated systems with no human oversight.

For Itosugi, years of work and dozens of connected services disappeared because an algorithm decided he should not have uploaded his own drawings. No human reviewed it.

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Over 2 million people across more than 170 countries have already learned the basics of AI through one free course, and most people online still haven't heard of it.

It is called Elements of AI, built by the University of Helsinki with Finnish firms Reaktor and MinnaLearn.

It is completely free, needs no coding or math, and ends with a certificate that costs $0.

The one to start with is "Introduction to AI," about 30 hours at your own pace, covering what AI is, how machine learning and neural networks work, and where the technology falls short.

A second part, "Building AI," goes deeper for anyone who wants it.

Finland built it to teach 1% of its own population the fundamentals, then opened it to the world in 26 languages. It was funded as public education, not a paid bootcamp, which is why it remains one of the clearest starting points for understanding modern AI.

Link: https://www.elementsofai.com/

🚨 SpaceX has approved a historic pay package for CEO Elon Musk, potentially worth $1,000,000,000,000, as the company prepares to IPO in June at a target valuation of $1.75 trillion.

The plan comes just months after SpaceX acquired xAI in February in an all stock deal that valued the combined company at $1.25 trillion, the largest merger ever recorded.

Musk would receive 200 million super voting restricted shares, but only if three goals are met:

-> Establish a permanent human colony on Mars with at least 1 million residents.
-> Reach a $7.5 trillion company valuation.
-> Operate space based data centers delivering 100 terawatts of compute, roughly the output of 100,000 nuclear reactors running at once.

He gets nothing unless these targets are hit. Until then, his base salary stays at $54,080 a year, unchanged since 2019.

Musk is already worth around $776 billion. Hitting the full package would make him the first trillionaire in history.