The Texas App Store Accountability Act requires app stores to determine people’s ages with a “commercially reasonable method of verification” and to impose restrictions on people under 18. Apple and Google announced plans to comply with the law last year but warned that it would harm users’ privacy. Laws regulating speech face different levels of ..
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The groups urged the FCC to preserve machine-readable price information, saying it “clearly benefits consumers by aiding in the development of comparison shopping tools and aggregate market research.” The groups also said that “telephone-based disclosures remain essential to informed consumer decision-making” because they “serve as an important safeguard against scams and misleading offers that may ..
To replace ALARA, the NRC will start with a limit at which evidence clearly indicates radiation impacts would be apparent and set exposure thresholds below that. From lowest to highest exposure, these thresholds will require increasingly aggressive efforts to limit exposures. The language of the details is a bit confused, however. As its name implies, ..
Alibaba has not commented on Anthropic’s accusations, but the company has moved to distance itself from Anthropic’s models amid ongoing scrutiny. Last Friday, Alibaba banned its employees from using Claude Code for work, the South China Morning Post reported. According to a memo SCMP reviewed, Alibaba told employees the ban came in direct response to ..
“Is the fact that the chat model might be able to respond to prompts and have a conversation something closer to a recommendation, or guidance?” he asked. But he also said AI could “democratize” finance by widening access to sophisticated services currently only available to the richest customers. He said people earning only £20,000 a ..
The new statistics released by PEER were made public as a result of a lawsuit PEER and other groups filed to compel the Chemical Safety Board to disclose industrial chemical releases as required by the Clean Air Act. A federal judge ruled in 2019 that communities have a right to know what hazardous chemicals are ..
“I’m honestly surprised that the FAA would propose a rule this weak,” Rutherford told the publication. US lawmakers in Congress have also been pushing forward the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act. That would require the FAA to allow for overland supersonic flights “so long as the aircraft is operated in such a manner that no sonic ..
In the spring, OpenAI first proposed creating an AI wealth fund that “provides every citizen—including those not invested in financial markets—with a stake in AI-driven economic growth,” FT reported. For society to benefit as much as possible, an OpenAI blog said, an “AI-led future” will likely require “new approaches that give people durable stakes in ..
And finally, the GDPR is not a substitute for FTC monitoring, they argued. That seems particularly clear since X is currently under investigation for its “unauthorized collection of European users’ data to train its Grok AI model without valid GDPR consent” advocated noted. “X Corp.’s foray into artificial intelligence development should prompt greater FTC oversight ..
Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems ..
