A proposed bill would bar companies from using data like a phone’s battery life, what apps are installed and where its user is to set prices.

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Pacific Gas and Electric, which runs Diablo Canyon, announced a deal with artificial intelligence startup Atomic Canyon —a company also based in San Luis Obispo—around the same time, heralding it in a ...

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Artificial Intelligence 1 in 6 Congresswomen Targeted by AI-Generated Sexually Explicit Deepfakes A first-of-its-kind study highlights the stark gender disparity in AI-generated nonconsensual intimate ...

Artificial Intelligence Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites ...

Pixel Hunt Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook More than 200 national and regional lenders share sensitive user data with Facebook. Experts say it ...

Digital Book Banning Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA?

Schools across the country use web filters to limit what students can see online. Originally intended to block obscene or harmful content, the filters prevent students from learning. In their own ...

In October 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that an AI-powered chatbot would help New York business owners navigate the government. Months later, that chatbot is telling businesses to ...