Before JD Vance began his rapid rise to vice presidential candidate, he co-founded a Silicon Valley-backed donor organization to finance right-wing news stories, voter turnout operations and election polls with a goal of spreading U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand of nationalism, according to previously unreported
Artificial intelligence (AI) prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic “
A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular
As California’s AI bill, SB 1047, continues to move through the California state legislature, the AI industry and its allies are trying to convince Governor Gavin Newsom to veto the legislation.
The bill, which requires makers of very large frontier models to establish and report AI safety guidelines, passed out of the appropriations committee last week and is now slated for a floor v
For students and professional scholars alike, starting a new research project typically means digging through academic literature to understand what others have already written.
That can take a considerable amount of time, with researchers tracking down and combing through journal articles to begin their research and contextualize their own findings. But a growing collection of AI-powered tools aims to make that process easier. These new tools can help researchers more quickly find
The next frontier in the battle over data privacy doesn’t revolve around a keyboard or smartphone. It involves what happens inside your car.
Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against General Motors (GM), alleging the auto giant violated Texans’ privacy rights by collecting and selling driver data to insurance c
As concerns about foreign interference in the 2024 election linger and politicians continue to worry about the potential negative impacts of artificial intelligence, OpenAI, late last Friday, announced it had discovered an “Iranian influence operation” using its tools to
Nearly a year after AI-generated nude images of high school girls upended a community in southern Spain, a juvenile court this summer sentenced 15 of their classmates to a year of probation.
But the artificial intelligence tool used to create the
Social media platform X said Saturday it will close its operations in Brazil, claiming Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if they did not comply with orders.
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In eight years of working as a taxi driver in Kenya‘s capital, Judith Chepkwony has never seen business this bad.
A bruising price war between ride-hailing companies Uber Technologies, Estonia’s Bolt and local start-ups Little and Faras has driven fares down to a level that many drivers say is unsustainable, forcing them to set their own higher rates.
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