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Associated Press Numerous federal government webpages were taken down last week as agencies rushed to comply with an executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump to remove gender and transgender terminology. As the sites go back online, researchers are finding it difficult to determine what was altered or removed. Some have downloaded data from federal […]

Associated Press Tech giants increasingly are looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a more arduous process of linking to an electric grid that also serves others. An arrangement between Amazon Web Services and the Susquehanna nuclear plant in eastern Pennsylvania, called a “behind the meter” connection, is the […]

Associated Press President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order revoking past government policies on AI that “act as barriers to American AI innovation.” To maintain global leadership, “We must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas,” the order states. While the order does not specify which policies are […]

Associated Press Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in Africa during a two-month operation clamping down on cybercrime that left tens of thousands of victims, the global police organization said Tuesday. Operation Serengeti, a joint operation with African Union police agency Afripol, ran in 19 African countries and targeted criminals behind ransomware, business email compromises, digital extortion, […]

Associated Press As the number of displaced people rises globally, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is turning to AI tools to extend its reach. IRC is working to expand its network of AI chatbots available through Signpost, a portfolio of mobile apps and social media channels that answer questions in different languages for people in […]

Associated Press The Vatican and Microsoft have rolled out a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica that offers online visitors an interactive experience. The 3D replica leverages AI and advanced photogrammetry to let virtual visitors tour the church and learn its history. The digital twin was created using 400,000 high-resolution digital photographs captured by drones, […]

Associated Press An analysis by two nonprofit newsrooms working with the Science, Technology and Social Values Lab at New Jersey’s Institute for Advanced Study found that AI chatbots generate more false claims about voting rights in Spanish than they do in English, in the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election. Assessing responses by Meta’s Llama […]

Associated Press Russia helped amplify and spread false and misleading online claims about recent hurricanes in the U.S. and the federal government’s response, according to research from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a U.K.-based organization that tracks disinformation and online extremism. The content, spread by Russian state media and networks of social media accounts and […]

Associated Press ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Geoffrey Hinton, known as the ‘godfather of AI’, and Princeton University’s John Hopfield on Tuesday were named to receive the Nobel Prize in physics for helping to create the building blocks of machine learning. Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other patterns […]