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White House Proposes Smart Home Cybersecurity Program
The goal of the new certification is to help consumers make choices.
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ChatGPT4 can Recognize and Read People's Faces. OpenAI Worries it Makes AI Way Too Powerful
OpenAI's ChatGPT has evolved beyond just handling text; it can now recognize and read people's faces.
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Here's How San Jose Plans to Use Artificial Intelligence to Stop Pedestrian Traffic Deaths
AImay be considered an invaluable tool when talking about traffic and pedestrian deaths in a city where two more lives were lost this past weekend in hit and run...
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ChatGPT's Evil Twin 'WormGPT' is Silently Entering Emails, Raiding Banks
SlashNext says WormGPT is an example of the threat that language-generative AI models pose.
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Cybersecurity Labels for Smart Devices are On Their Way
White House unveils new cybersecurity labeling plan to tell you when your smart devices are secure.
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A.I. Wrote a Housing Bill. Critics Say It's Not Intelligent
A Queens assemblyman used an artificial intelligence program to identify gaps in New York law. But the resulting bill's potential impact is murky at best.
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Emojis Are Increasingly Legally Binding. But They're Still Open to Wide Interpretation
Each year, more cases in U.S. courts treat emojis as legally binding. However, giving the same weight to emojis as one would give to signatures comes with its own...
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Can A.I. Invent?
A group of legal experts are pressing patent agencies, courts and policymakers to address the question as generative A.I. seems on the brink of invading another...
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Generative AI Tools Quickly 'Running Out of Text' to Train Themselves
It's the latest concern raised regarding OpenAI and other AI developers' data-collection practices.
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How to Use Generative AI Tools While Still Protecting Your Privacy
Here's how to take some control of your data while using artificial intelligence tools and apps.
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'Not for Machines to Harvest': Data Revolts Break Out Against AI
Fed up with A.I. companies consuming online content without consent, fan fiction writers, actors, social media companies,and news organizations are among those...
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Your School's Next Security Guard May Be a Robot
Several technology companies have started offering security robots to U.S. schools.
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EU Looks to Take Lead in Metaverse World, Avoid Big Tech Dominance
The European Commission has outlined a strategy for the European Union to assume a lead role in the metaverse sector and block its domination by technology giants...
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AI-Powered Brain Surgery Becomes A Reality In Hong Kong
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, completed successful trials of a robot that treats brain tumors.
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Cracking Down on Dissent, Russia Seeds a Surveillance Supply Chain
Russia has built a network of technology contractors to supply it with surveillance equipment in order to spy on and quash internal dissent.
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FTC Investigating Whether ChatGPT Harms Consumers
The agency's demand for OpenAI's documents about AI risks mark the company's greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date.
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AI Is Making Politics Easier, Cheaper and More Dangerous
Voters are already seeing AI-generated campaign materials — and likely don't know it.
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U.S. and E.U. Complete Long-Awaited Deal on Sharing Data
The agreement ends legal uncertainty for Meta, Google and scores of companies — at least for now.
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As Businesses Clamor for Workplace A.I., Tech Companies Rush to Provide It
Amazon, Box, Salesforce, Oracle, and others have recently rolled out A.I.-related products to help workplaces become more efficient and productive.
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