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Georgia law restricts police use of license plate data to law enforcement purposes. A new lawsuit alleges deputies searched a man's vehicle five times while he was suing their sheriff. Two recorded reasons were "info" and "37." The system accepted both.
Federal rulemakers are deciding what to do when artificial intelligence produces the kind of conclusion that once required an expert. They disagree about how to regulate it. They also disagree about whether the problem has arrived.
I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.
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German robotics company Neura is using AI to train robots in simulated environments, positioning itself at the front of a European push to develop humanoid and adaptive machines. The effort is part of a broader competition with China over who leads the next generation of AI-driven robotics.
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A review examines leading AI image generators that produce explicit content, looking at both their technical capabilities and how they handle user data.
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At Nellis Air Force Base last year, an AI system was tasked with building courses of action, a complex operational problem that military planners have spent generations learning to perform. The AI system took less than a minute to complete its task with solutions rated at 97 percent viable and tactically valid (essentially, whether the proposed plan could work given operational constraints such as fuel and force composition). By contrast, their human counterparts took roughly 19 minutes and only reached 48 percent viability.That comparison needs two qualifiers. First, the tool that hit 97 per…
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The AI company’s first public financial disclosures reveal explosive growth, huge costs and risks ranging from cyber-attacks to the limits of safeguards Anthropic has filed to go public on the US stock market, revealing for the first time the AI research lab’s financials and all the risks – more than 90 pages of them – that might negatively impact its business. The company’s investor prospectus, released Monday, veers from hyperbolic predictions about AI’s “incredible potential” to existential risks of the technology to the reality of its current business: explosive but incredibly expensive g…
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A report or analysis from SiliconANGLE examines how enterprise AI governance is moving toward embedding controls directly into workflow design, rather than treating oversight as a separate layer added after systems are built.
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