A proposed bill would bar companies from using data like a phone’s battery life, what apps are installed and where its user is to set prices.

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Pacific Gas and Electric, which runs Diablo Canyon, announced a deal with artificial intelligence startup Atomic Canyon —a company also based in San Luis Obispo—around the same time, heralding it in a ...

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Artificial Intelligence 1 in 6 Congresswomen Targeted by AI-Generated Sexually Explicit Deepfakes A first-of-its-kind study highlights the stark gender disparity in AI-generated nonconsensual intimate ...

Locked Out Landlords Are Using AI To Raise Rents — and Cities Are Starting To Push Back Federal prosecutors have accused software company RealPage of enriching itself "at the expense of renters who ...

Hi all, Investigative reporter Malena Carollo here again. It’s a million degrees, school’s out, and brat summer is in. If you’re over 21, you may find yourself out on the town in the next few months ...

Artificial Intelligence Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites ...

Pixel Hunt Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook More than 200 national and regional lenders share sensitive user data with Facebook. Experts say it ...

Digital Book Banning Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA?