Facial-recognition company Clearview AI raises $30M Series B amid legal and ethical concerns, with new investors requesting they not be publicly identified
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Biden signs an EO calling on regulators to enact reforms such as increasing scrutiny of tech mergers and focusing more on moves like “killer acquisitions”
- President Joe Biden signed a new executive order aimed at cracking down on anti-competitive practices in Big Tech, labor and numerous other sectors.
Biden EO will encourage the FCC to bring back net neutrality and enforce clearer pricing labels for ISPs, asks FTC to draft right-to-repair rules, more
but it can't until he picks a third Democrat Pia Singh / CNBC : IAC CEO says Apple is ‘worse’ than Google and will be next target in U.S. antitrust crackdown Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo ...
Gebru's firing reveals tech's ability to co-opt and minimize criticism of its AI systems, highlighting the need for tech unions, research protection, regulation
and offer some suggestions for how to begin fixing it. https://www.wired.com/... @techwontsaveus : “The handful of people who are benefiting from AI's proliferation are shaping the...
Gebru's firing reveals tech's ability to co-opt and minimize criticism of its AI systems, highlighting the need for tech unions, research protection, regulation
The situation has made clear that the field needs to change. Here's where to start, according to a current and a former Googler. Tweets: @nin_sch , @math_rachel , @dataremixed , @...
Zuckerberg gives a full-throated defense of Facebook as a champion of free expression and defends Facebook policy to opt out of fact-checking political ads
In an address at Georgetown University, the Facebook chief executive called for more free speech — not less …
Zuckerberg gives a full-throated defense of Facebook as a champion of free expression and defends Facebook policy to opt out of fact-checking political ads
In an address at Georgetown University, the Facebook chief executive called for more free speech — not less …
Apple suspends Siri response grading, where contractors reviewed Siri queries without explicit user consent, promises update where users can choose to take part
Apple retains the right to basically keep recordings forever, and today's rushed-out announcement is only about humans grading recordings — not *not saving recordings of you in the...
Amazon says it will let users opt out of human review of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa, following similar moves by Apple and Google
- Alexa reviewers transcribe, annotate some voice recordings — Apple, Google suspended human voice review programs this week