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News Dec 4 2024

U.S. Officials Urge Americans to Use Encryption amid Cyberattack

NBC News U.S. officials are recommending that Americans use encrypted messaging to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers, amid a cyberattack on telecommunications companies by China-backed hackers. Officials on a news call Tuesday refused to set a timetable for declaring the country’s telecommunications systems free of intruders, and recommended using encrypted messaging apps […]

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News Dec 4 2024

Indigenous Engineers Use AI to Preserve Their Culture

NBC News Indigenous researchers are working to preserve endangered Indigenous languages using AI. Indigenous in AI founder Michael Running Wolf is head of the Mila-Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute’s First Languages AI Reality initiative, which is working to develop speech recognition models for more than 200 endangered North American Indigenous languages. Running Wolf said a major […]

News Oct 24 2024

More Than 11,000 Creatives Condemn Unauthorized Use of Content for AI Development

NBC News An open letter calling for a ban on the use of human art to train AI without permission went public on Oct. 22 and has been signed by at least 11,500 actors, authors, musicians, and other creative professionals. The one-line statement, not addressed to anyone in particular, reads, “The unlicensed use of creative […]

News Jun 26 2024

Supreme Court Tosses Out Claim Biden administration Coerced Social Media companies to Remove Content

The court overturned an injunction that would have limited contacts between government officials and social media companies on a wide range of issues.

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