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The Guardian reports that California governor Gavin Newsom signed laws on Wednesday “aimed at protecting California workers from the threats of artificial intelligence , including potential job losses and workplace surveillance.”
The laws ban employers… Continue reading California’s Governor Wants Worker Protections from AI. But FSF Thinks Kill Switches are ‘Dangerous Precedent’
Flock’s cameras offer “indiscriminate mass surveillance,” a U.S. federal judge wrote in a ruling Thursday, as does any system with “continuously updated” location histories for all the vehicles filmed by automated license plate-reading cameras.
Are AI chatbots quietly shaping the perceptions of U.S. voters? Voters trying to educate themselves about candidates “are unknowingly being served partisan talking points in the guise of neutral news summaries,” write two news researchers in Politico m… Continue reading Are AI Chatbots Spreading Misinformation to US Voters?
“A federal jury in San Diego awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion in damages Friday after finding that Apple infringed claims from two haptics patents,”
reports CNBC:
Taction sued Apple in 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern … Continue reading Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics
A new Brookings Institution study notes the “strikingly physical” economic footprint of AI’s buildout, from specialized chips and electricity to purpose-built data centers. (Two-thirds of a data center’s costs are IT equipment, with one-third going to … Continue reading Just How Big is the AI Buildout – and How Risky?
Waymo’s self-driving car technology “continues to outperform human benchmarks,” the company claimed this week. “It was involved in 841 fewer injury-causing crashes — an 82% reduction compared to human drivers.”
Electrek reports:
We’ve seen va… Continue reading Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%
“OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest AI models,” reports the Associated Press, “as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.”
The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several … Continue reading After Dozens of Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI Pauses Model Training to Build More Safeguards
Could this push solar cell efficiency beyond the theoretical 33% limit? Interesting Engineering reports:
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that tin-based perovskite solar cells can slow heat loss from high-energy “ho… Continue reading New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit
The United States and China have agreed to “launch a dialogue” on AI, reports Reuters.
On artificial intelligence, the two sides agreed to hold a dialogue on the technology’s risks and benefits, with the next round of discussions set for November, and… Continue reading China and the US Say They’ve Agreed to Start Talks About AI
Last weekend KDE’s annual Akademy conference included a presentation proposing
an AI-native KDE,” writes The Register. This led KDE developer Nate Graham to open a discussion about proposed restrictions on LLM-assisted contributions which “rapidly beca… Continue reading KDE and GNOME Developers Ponder How to Handle AI-Generated Contributions