Tuesday, 21st May 2024, 5:12 PM
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Senate committee passes three bills to safeguard elections from AI, months before Election Day
The Senate Rules Committee advanced three bills that would prohibit deepfakes of political candidates and require AI disclosures in political ads.
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For self-driving cars, the free ride is over
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened investigations into almost all the major players in autonomous vehicles and driver assistance.
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Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers
Raspberry Pi plans to file for a UK stock market listing, saying the IPO would help it to enable young people to “realize their potential through the power of computing.”
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Senate unveils $32 billion roadmap for regulating AI
The roadmap, from a working group led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, does not propose specific legislation to regulate AI systems.
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Intel’s Thunderbolt Share lets two PCs control each other over a USB cable
Install this app on two Thunderbolt 4 or 5 computers, connect them with a Thunderbolt cable, and you should be able to share screens, peripherals, and storage.
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Instagram’s co-founder is now Anthropic’s new chief product officer
Mike Krieger, formerly a co-founder of Instagram and recently the co-founder of AI news reader Artifact, will oversee all of Anthropic’s Claude-related products.
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Welcome to Notepad, a newsletter on Microsoft’s era-defining bets by Tom Warren
Subscribe to Notepad by Tom Warren, a weekly newsletter uncovering the secrets and strategy behind Microsoft’s era-defining bets on AI, gaming, and computing.
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Social media users are blocking celebs to support Palestine
The uncanny juxtaposition of the Met Gala and the horrors of Gaza have users on TikTok and Instagram turning the heat up on celebrities and influencers, calling for “Blockout 2024.”
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We gotta stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem
Artificial intelligence is being rapidly deployed across the technological landscape in the form of GPT-4o, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot, and that would be cool if the AI wasn’t so stupid.
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Razer Blade 14 vs. Asus Rog Zephyrus G14: uncompromised value
Both 14-inch gaming laptops are configured with the same AMD Ryzen 9 8000 CPU and Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU, but they are wildly different machines.
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Google’s new LearnLM AI model focuses on education
The new model, LearnLM, is fine-tuned for education-related tasks. It’s already available on Google products like Android’s Circle to Search and YouTube.
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Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video
Google DeepMind’s SynthID can now watermark AI-generated video and text. It’s one of several standards alongside C2PA.