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Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.”...
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OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial...
Viral Disneyland Content Creator Defends Her ‘Special Friendship’ With Peter Pan
As a Disney content creator, Toni Kulusich posts meet-and-greet videos with lots of different Disneyland theme park characters. But her...
Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female...
Can the Upcoming ‘Expanse’ Game Avoid ‘Mass Effect’s’ Biggest Mistake?
A main theme of the nine-book sci-fi series The Expanse is that sometimes you may never know the consequences of...
Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To
In the eyes of many privacy advocates, AI is just another surveillance technology. It supercharges online tracking and real-world spying...
Exclusive: You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone—a Sustainable, Repairable Smartphone—in the US
Your iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, and Google Pixel have a 1-year warranty. Unless you cough up extra dough for an extended...
The Cop Who Took On Flock
On an early fall afternoon in 2023, midway through a shift in Pawtucket’s District Five, Rhode Island police officer Noel...
The Powerful Chinese Model Experts Warned About—and Waited for—Is Here
It’s now even easier to find—and exploit—vulnerabilities in computer systems using AI. Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai announced...
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What Is El Niño? Here’s What It Means for Weather, Water, and Global Economy
El Niño looks to reach an intensity unprecedented in recorded history. Characterized by warmer than normal sea surface temperatures in...
