EU negotiators nailed down curbs on how AI can be used in Europe but still seek to encourage innovation. EU member states and lawmakers clinched a deal on Friday on…
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US rail to get much-needed facelift
Workers are seen at an Amtrak facility in New Castle County, Delaware in November 2023. Old-fashioned, slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars…
Amazon asks federal judge to dismiss the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against the company
The Amazon logo is seen, Sept. 6, 2012, in Santa Monica, Calif. Attorneys for Amazon on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 asked a federal judge to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s…
UK probes Microsoft-OpenAI partnership
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Britain’s competition watchdog announced on Friday that it was looking into whether a partnership between US tech giant Microsoft and artificial intelligence developer OpenAI resembles a…
Learn to forget? How to rein in a rogue chatbot
As firms like Google and Microsoft rewire their search engines with AI technology, they are likely to face increasing issues with data privacy. When Australian politician Brian Hood noticed ChatGPT…
Researchers develop method that boosts performance of moderation models on live platforms
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Twitch. Some see it as a fun online community of gamers and good-natured e-sports fandom. For others, it’s a perilous stream of potentially toxic content and…
AI’s Vulnerability to Misguided Human Arguments
Summary: A new study reveals a significant vulnerability in large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT: they can be easily misled by incorrect human arguments. Researchers engaged ChatGPT in debate-like scenarios,…
Maternal Inflammation Linked to Child Behavioral Dysregulation
Summary: Maternal inflammation risk factors may be associated with dysregulation in children, encompassing attention, anxiety, depression, and aggression. Researchers observed that children born to mothers with prenatal infections, or who…
Interoperability is the name of the game in the future of traffic, says researcher
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An F-35 fighter plane has 8 million lines of code. A modern car, by comparison, has hundreds of millions of lines of code. The car is…
