Business Archives » Page 2 of 3

Google lifts the prohibition of using its AI for weapons and surveillance– BC

Leave a Comment / Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Principles 2.0 / By Salsa Noreen

Google announced on Tuesday that you are reviewing the principles that govern how artificial intelligence and other advanced technology use. The company eliminated the language that promised not to pursue “technologies that cause or probably cause general damage”, “weapons or other technologies whose main purpose or implementation is to directly cause or facilitate injuries to […]

Google lifts the prohibition of using its AI for weapons and surveillance– BC Read More »

Elon Musk’s Dux is still blocking the relief of HIV/AIDS exempt from foreign aid cuts– BC

Leave a Comment / Business, Business / National Affairs, Locked Out, Politics, Politics / Policy / By Salsa Noreen

USAID staff who still have access to their email accounts received a notice on Monday night from Ken Jackson, the agency’s assistant to the Management and Resource Manager, saying that the agency “would probably undergo reorganization” and integrated into the State Department. “As we evaluate the USAID and make sure that it is aligned with

Elon Musk’s Dux is still blocking the relief of HIV/AIDS exempt from foreign aid cuts– BC Read More »

Trump’s cryptonissance is here– BC

Leave a Comment / Business, Business / Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Crypto President / By Salsa Noreen

The wheels are already beginning to light Donald Trump’s plan to make the United States the “cryptographic capital of the planet” after his return to the White House. In a Executive order Signed on Thursday, Trump established a “working group in digital asset markets”, which will be responsible for weighing the possibility that the US

Trump’s cryptonissance is here– BC Read More »

Trump’s ‘money grab’ economy Memecoin– BC

Leave a Comment / Business, Business / Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Trump Pump / By Salsa Noreen

In this sense, says Jacob Silverman, co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrencies, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of FraudThe TRUMP coin setup appears to have some of the characteristics of a “classic memecoin pump and dump,” a maneuver whereby an issuer holds large amounts of its coin, promotes the project, and then cashes out its

Trump’s ‘money grab’ economy Memecoin– BC Read More »

It’s not just TikTok: These other ByteDance apps also disappeared– BC

Leave a Comment / Business, Business / Social Media, bytes the dust / By Salsa Noreen

TikTok is no longer available in the United States, at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US users. Shortly before the January 19 deadline imposed by the federal government, TikTok cut off access to anyone trying to access the app from the United States. “In the US,

It’s not just TikTok: These other ByteDance apps also disappeared– BC Read More »

The SEC is suing Elon Musk. Everything is in time– BC

Leave a Comment / Business, Business / Social Media, shot clock / By Salsa Noreen

As time runs out for the Biden administration, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Elon Musk in federal court. The statute at hand is relatively simple. The moment of complaint is more complicated. The SEC complaint focuses on Musk’s acquisition of Twitter stock in early 2022. According to the complaint, Musk failed to

The SEC is suing Elon Musk. Everything is in time– BC Read More »

Latin American fact-checkers prepare for Meta’s next moves– BC

Leave a Comment / Business, Business / Social Media, true or false / By Salsa Noreen

This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump’s imminent second presidential term and competing methods, such as X’s Community Notes. Meta decided not to invest more money in its program. Now he hopes that Facebook and Instagram users themselves will decide what content is disinformation or not. In the statement in which Zuckerberg announced

Latin American fact-checkers prepare for Meta’s next moves– BC Read More »

It’s official: boring cities are bad for your health– BC

Leave a Comment / Business, Business / Transportation, WIRED World / By Salsa Noreen

A significant proportion of people today live in towns and cities that grew up around trade, industry and automobiles. Think of the docks of Liverpool, the factories of Osaka, the car obsession of New York’s Robert Moses or the low-density sprawl of modern Riyadh. Few of these places were created with human health in mind.

It’s official: boring cities are bad for your health– BC Read More »

I used AI to do all my Christmas shopping– BC

Leave a Comment / Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Santa / By Salsa Noreen

In its initial responses, ChatGPT did not provide any links to products. But he readily supplied them to me when I asked, and although I didn’t click on each and every one of them, none of them seemed to be hallucinations. Claude, on the other hand, apologized and said that “you can’t actually link directly

I used AI to do all my Christmas shopping– BC Read More »

Harvard is launching a massive, free AI training dataset funded by OpenAI and Microsoft– BC

Leave a Comment / Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Public Domain / By Salsa Noreen

In addition to the trove of books, the Institutional Data Initiative is also working with the Boston Public Library to scan millions of articles from different newspapers that are now in the public domain, and says it is open to forming similar collaborations in the future. The exact way in which the books data set

Harvard is launching a massive, free AI training dataset funded by OpenAI and Microsoft– BC Read More »