On Wednesday, Utah became the first state in the country to pass legislation mandating that app stores verify users’ ages and get parental consent for certain activity on minors’ accounts. The controversial App Store Accountability Act, which will now head […]
The mobile app Spill has seen a surge in signups since the election and is launching an equity crowdfunding round this month. Source link Issie Lapowsky
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The Biden administration’s efforts to regulate internet providers were already on life support. A federal appeals court just pulled the plug. A federal appeals court sealed the fate of the Biden administration’s efforts to regulate internet providers on Thursday, striking
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The state senator’s AI legislation may be dead. But his fight for safer AI isn’t. Last summer, Scott Wiener found himself in an uncomfortable position for any California Democrat: openly quarreling with Nancy Pelosi and garnering support from Elon Musk.
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The cognitive scientist recently launched her own lab dedicated to AI accountability. One day in 2020, Abeba Birhane found herself on Wikipedia, scouring a list of slurs. At the time, Birhane was pursuing a PhD in cognitive science at the
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He’s trying to convince the world to believe it, too. It takes a ton of energy to train the most advanced AI. According to one estimate, by the year 2027, AI electricity needs could be comparable to the energy use
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They were pushed out of cushy jobs at Google, Twitter, and Meta. Now they’re building startups and embracing the risk of entrepreneurship. Source link Issie Lapowsky
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The Dutch and the Japanese would go on to unveil their own sweeping controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, including ASML’s DUV machines and almost two dozen tools produced in Japan. Both countries have sworn ever since that they were acting
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As election day nears, high-ranking Republicans are targeting the fundraising platform with flimsy allegations of donor fraud. Since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for President—and as of this month, the actual Democratic nominee for president—Vice President Kamala Harris has blasted
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