Team Biden hinders Ukraine victory, politicians clueless on AI

Team Biden hinders Ukraine victory, politicians clueless on AI

Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board Published Jan. 2, 2024, 5:06 p.m. ET Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky give remarks after meeting in the Oval Office in December. Julia Nikhinson/UPI/Shutterstock Ukraine war: Team Biden Hinders Kyiv’s Victory “The Biden administration doesn’t want Ukraine to win” against Russia, concludes Phillips P. O’Brien in The Wall Street …

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Meta reportedly won’t make its AI advertising tools available to political marketers

Meta reportedly won’t make its AI advertising tools available to political marketers

Facebook is no stranger to moderating and mitigating misinformation on its platform, having long employed machine learning and artificial intelligence systems to help supplement its human-led moderation efforts. At the start of October, the company extended its machine learning expertise to its advertising efforts with an experimental set of generative AI tools that can perform …

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Kamala Harris announces AI Safety Institute to protect American consumers

Kamala Harris announces AI Safety Institute to protect American consumers

Just days after President Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping executive order retasking the federal government with regards to AI development, Vice President Kamala Harris announced at the UK AI Safety Summit on Tuesday a half dozen more machine learning initiatives that the administration is undertaking. Among the highlights: the establishment of the United States AI …

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Sweeping White House executive order takes aim at AI’s toughest challenges

Sweeping White House executive order takes aim at AI’s toughest challenges

The Biden Administration unveiled its ambitious next steps in addressing and regulating artificial intelligence development on Monday. Its expansive new executive order seeks to establish further protections for the public as well as improve best practices for federal agencies and their contractors. “The President several months ago directed his team to pull every lever,” a …

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Google expands its bug bounty program to target generative AI attacks

Google expands its bug bounty program to target generative AI attacks

With concerns around generative AI ever-present, Google has announced an expansion of its Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) focused on AI-specific attacks and opportunities for malice. As such, the company released updated guidelines detailing which discoveries qualify for rewards and which fall out of scope. For example, discovering training data extraction that leaks private, sensitive information …

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Apple backs users’ ‘right to repair’ across the United States

Apple backs users’ ‘right to repair’ across the United States

During a White House event on Tuesday, Apple announced that it will support the US’ “Right to Repair” bill, making it easier for consumers and repair shops to fix their products, including iPhones nationwide.After backing up the bill in the state of California, Apple is now extending this support to consumers and independent repair shops …

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