A new investigation claims that the Apple and Google app stores hosted dozens of so-called “nudify” AI apps, despite such apps violating the companies’ rules.
The Tech Transparency…
Category: 3. Tech
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Roundtables: Why AI Companies Are Betting on Next-Gen Nuclear
AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity for these facilities is next-generation nuclear power plants, which could…
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Powering AI from space, at scale, with a passive tether design
Penn Engineers have developed a novel design for solar-powered data centers that will orbit Earth and could realistically scale to meet the growing demand for AI computing while reducing the environmental impact of data centers.
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Stanford’s Light Breakthrough Could Finally Make Quantum Computers Scale
A new way of capturing light from atoms could finally unlock ultra-powerful, million-qubit quantum computers. After decades of effort, researchers may finally be closing in on a practical path toward powerful quantum computers. These machines are…
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Trump’s acting cybersecurity chief uploaded sensitive government docs to ChatGPT
The acting head of U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA uploaded sensitive contracting documents marked “for official use only” to ChatGPT, according to Politico.
The outlet, citing officials, reported Tuesday that CISA’s acting director, Madhu…
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EU lawmakers want AI to pay for using copyrighted work
EU lawmakers on Wednesday demanded artificial intelligence providers pay for their use of copyrighted European content as they called for expanded rules to apply to generative AI.
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Sweden plans to ban mobile phones in schools
Sweden plans to ban mobile phones from primary and middle schools in order to ensure that children can focus on learning in the classroom, the government said on Wednesday.
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What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier
When information is all in the same repository, it is prone to crossing contexts in ways that are deeply undesirable. A casual chat about dietary preferences to build a grocery list could later influence what health insurance options are…
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UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries
Britain’s competition watchdog said Wednesday that Google should give news sites and content creators the choice to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed its AI overviews.
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From bones to steel: Why ice skates were a terrible idea that worked
From figure skating to ice hockey, many of the most popular winter sports stem…
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