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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Regs Needed for High-Risk AI, ACM Says–'It's the Wild West'
The ACM paper recommends new laws should be put in place to limit the use of generative AI in certain situations.
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Want to Win a Chip War? You're Gonna Need a Lot of Water
The U.S. is spending billions to boost semiconductor manufacturing. For the new plants to crank out silicon chips, they need to source millions of gallons of ultrapure...
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Is the Digital Dollar Dead?
Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the U.S.—just as we've learned the basics of how one might work.
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U.S. Program to Identify Safe Smart Devices
The Biden administration has announced a program to identify smart devices that are more resilient against cyberattacks.
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Amazon Cashless 'Pay by Palm' Technology Requires Only a Hand Wave
Retail giant Amazon has announced a new contactless transaction service that allows shoppers to pay with their palms.
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AI Giants Pledge to Allow External Probes of Their Algorithms, Under a New White House Pact
Leading AI developers including Google and OpenAI promised the Biden administration to check for problems such as biased output.
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Thousands of Authors Urge AI Companies to Stop Using Work Without Permission
Nearly 8,000 authors just signed a letter addressed to the leaders of six AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta.
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Face Recognition In the U.S. Is About to Meet One of Its Biggest Tests
A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America.
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A Nested Inventory for Software Security, Supply Chain Risk Management
The growing importance of the Software Bill of Materials
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A Blessing and a Boogeyman: Advertisers Warily Embrace A.I.
Many ads are easier to make with the fast-improving technology. It also poses a threat to an industry already in flux.
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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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