The Internal Market Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament have endorsed new transparency and risk-management rules for artificial intelligence systems known as the AI Act.
This marks a major step in the development of AI regulation …
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Servers running software sold by Salesforce are leaking sensitive data managed by government agencies, banks, and other organizations, according to a post published Friday by KrebsOnSecurity.
At least five separate sites run by the state of
OpenAI restored access to ChatGPT in Italy after the company met the demands of the Italian Data Protection …
FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan has warned that the US government will not hesitate to clamp down on harmful business practices involving AI.
Speaking at a virtual press event, Khan was joined by top officials from US consumer protection and civil …
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On Tuesday, OpenAI announced new controls for ChatGPT users that allow them to turn off chat history, simultaneously opting out of providing that conversation history as data for training AI models. Also, users can
Italy’s data protection authority has said that it’s willing to lift its ChatGPT ban if OpenAI meets specific conditions.
The Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data (GPDP) announced last month that it was blocking access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The …
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, GPT-4, PaLM, LaMDA, etc., are artificial intelligence systems capable of generating and analyzing human-like text. Their usage is becoming increasingly prevalent in our everyday lives and extends to a wide array of domains ranging …
President Biden believes that AI can help solve some of the world’s most difficult challenges, but says that risks to society, the economy, and national security must be addressed.
In a meeting on Tuesday with the President’s Council of Advisors …
An AI think tank has filed a complaint with the FTC in a bid to stop OpenAI from further commercial deployments of GPT-4.
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP) claims OpenAI has violated section five of the …
Facial recognition firm Clearview AI has revealed that it has run almost a million searches for US police.
Facial recognition technology is a controversial topic, and for good reason. Clearview AI’s technology allows law enforcement to upload a photo of …
Apple seems happy to stay out of the spotlight when it comes to the “AI race” going by its latest summit.
Microsoft, Google, Baidu, and others have all raced to make very public AI announcements over the past month. Apple …
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke addressed the EU Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels and gave his views on the bloc’s upcoming AI Act.
“The AI Act will define how the world regulates AI and we need to get it right, …
FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned about the national security threat posed by Beijing’s AI program.
During a panel at the World Economic Forum, Wray explained that Beijing’s AI program “is not constrained by the rule of law”.
Wray says …
China will begin enforcing its strict new rules around the creation of deepfakes from today.
Deepfakes are increasingly being used for manipulation and humiliation. We’ve seen deepfakes of figures like disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to commit fraud, Ukrainian President …
Teaching a machine to recognize human actions has many potential applications, such as automatically detecting workers who fall at a construction site or enabling a smart home robot to interpret a user’s gestures.
To do this, researchers train machine-learning models …
Microcontrollers, miniature computers that can run simple commands, are the basis for billions of connected devices, from internet-of-things (IoT) devices to sensors in automobiles. But cheap, low-power microcontrollers have extremely limited memory and no operating system, making it challenging to …