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Hundreds of AI-generated Bollywood videos with 16 million views have been deleted from Google’s YouTube after Reuters reported they were similar to those at the centre of a legal challenge filed by a celebrity couple to protect their rights. Bollywood stars Abhishek Bachchan and his wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan have asked a New Delhi judge … Read more
Indonesia has suspended TikTok’s registration to provide electronic systems after it failed to hand over all data relating to the use of its live stream feature, a government official said on Friday. The suspension could theoretically prevent access to TikTok, which has more than 100 million accounts based in Indonesia. Reuters, however, could access its application as … Read more
“I do not like the idea of pointing these giant A.I. supercomputers at people’s dopamine receptors and just feeding them an endless diet of hyper-personalized stimulating videos.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on Friday for a continent-wide push to develop self-driving cars, saying artificial intelligence could help revive the region’s struggling automotive sector and improve road safety. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Italy’s automotive hub, von der Leyen urged the European Union to adopt an “AI … Read more
The new A.I. app generated videos of store robberies and home intrusions — even bomb explosions on city streets — that never happened.
iRobot’s founder wouldn’t touch today’s robots with a 10-foot pole Source: x.com/cb_doge Rodney Brooks said the billions being poured into developing bipedal humanoids is nothing more than an”expensive fantasy.” His argument that making robots in our image is fundamentally unsafe, since if bipedal bots are made larger, they’re just bigger walking risks (imagine a 10-foot … Read more
Apple (AAPL.O) said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump’s administration. The app alerts users to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area. ICE has been a central part of Trump’s hardline immigration agenda and its agents have regularly raided and arrested … Read more
Britain is building sensors to counter lasers that adversaries might use to blind satellites or intercept and interrupt communications, the UK government said on Friday. The government said it will spend about £500,000 ($672,750) on the project, which involves UK Space Command and the UK Space Agency. A UK-government commissioned security review published this summer … Read more
Trump administration officials have issued several legal threats over ICEBlock, a popular app that allows users to alert others to the presence of nearby immigration agents.
A college student was trapped in a burning Cybertruck because electronic doors made it difficult for her to get out or be rescued, a lawsuit claims.