Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M+ times in September, beating Copilot
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US public records: AWS is aggressively promoting AI surveillance tech to law enforcement agencies, partnering with companies such as Flock Safety and ZeroEyes
It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls. … @skynetandchill.com : Public records show Amazon Web Services has b...
Bullish says it has received all $1.15B in capital raised from its IPO in stablecoins, including USDC, USDG, and PYUSD, marking a first for US public markets
Mostly on Solana X: @ripple : Congrats to @Bullish on a successful IPO! 👏 A portion of the IPO proceeds were settled in $RLUSD, minted on the XRP Ledger. This is the first public listing to bring the ...
Researchers estimate that air pollution related to data centers from Google, Microsoft, and Meta resulted in $5.4B in US public health costs from 2019 to 2023
Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise
Microsoft and a16z jointly share US public policy ideas for AI startups, saying that “regulation should be implemented only if its benefits outweigh its costs”
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft; Brad Smith, Vice-Chair and President, Microsoft, Marc Andreessen …
How effective altruism, branded by some as a cult obsessed with AI doomsday, influences the White House's, Congress', and think tanks' approach to AI regulation
or rather, it works on the same sort of psychological impulses that have led to millenniarian cults across recorded history 2) For EA to still play an effective and even necessary role in making sure ...
Despite broad support by the US public and lawmakers for child internet laws, Congress has done nothing, even after holding 39 hearings on the topic since 2017
Americans are broadly united in support of laws to make the internet safer for kids. So why doesn't Congress act? Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @justinhendrix , @superwuster , @evan_greer , @vi...
The FCC votes 3-2 to invite the US public to comment on re-establishing net neutrality rules; the broader effort still faces a long legal and political battle
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The EU and the US agree to a new data transfer deal, which is likely to face a legal challenge given EU judges threw out two prior pacts over privacy concerns
they even forgot to rename the link in the footer: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/... [image] Eric Mamer / @mamereric : Today we adopted the 🇪🇺 EU-US 🇺🇸 Data Privacy Fra...
Investigation: some US public housing agencies use surveillance cameras with facial recognition and other AI to evict residents, sometimes for minor violations
Surveillance cameras purchased with federal crime-fighting grants are being used to punish and evict public housing residents …