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AI and You: The AI Blame Game, Apple Hints at AI, Gen Z OK With AI Costing Coworkers Their Jobs – CNET
Get up to speed on the rapidly evolving world of AI with our roundup of the week’s developments.
Pre-seed investor Wonder Ventures secures $102M, including new later-stage fund
Wonder Ventures is the latest to inject additional capital at the pre-seed stage, an area where general partner Dustin Rosen and other investors continue to be bullish.
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Despite global frenzy, investor enthusiasm in China’s AI startups wanes
In 2023, the global frenzy around artificial intelligence, fueled by the advent of ChatGPT, swept across the world. In China, where OpenAI’s chatbot is unavailable, startups and tech incumbents scrambled to develop their own AI models and applications, drawing upon the foundational pieces of the American upstart. Individual AI fans accessed ChatGPT through a web […]
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Paris votes to crack down on SUVs
Parisians have voted to triple parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the city’s efforts to address road safety, air pollution, and climate change. The proposals were narrowly approved in a referendum vote on Sunday, with The Washington Post reporting that 54.6 percent of participants voted in favor of measures aiming to reduce the presence of “heavy, bulky, and polluting” vehicles in the city center.
Starting September 1st, gas or hybrid SUVs, and other larger vehicles weighing over 1.6 tonnes (1.76 tons), will be charged €18 (around $19.40) per hour to park in the center of Paris, and €12 (around $12.90) per hour in the rest of the city. The charging prices also apply to electric vehicles weighing over two tonnes (2.20…
ProducePay raises $38M to tackle produce supply chain waste
Food waste is a major problem. In the U.S. alone, roughly 30% to 40% of the supply ends up in landfills. A United Nations report estimated that around one-third of the world’s food is wasted every year, adding up to 1.3 billion tons — worth almost $1 trillion. Given the scale — and societal implications […]
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How to Choose the Best Whole Home Generator – CNET
A whole home generator can keep the lights on when the power goes out. Here’s how to pick the right one.
The ransomware business is booming, even as enforcers shut down some major players
2023 was a big year for ransomware groups, even as law enforcement around the world continued to crack down on attackers.
Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, the threat intelligence firm, found a 49 percent bump in victims reported by ransomware leak sites, totaling nearly 4,000 posts to those sites from different ransomware groups. Unit 42 said the uptick was due to the massive impact of attacks that exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, which are security flaws that developers have yet to identify. They pointed to the MOVEit Transfer software hack that the US government has connected to the CL0P Ransomware Gang, as one example. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency estimated that hack compromised more than 3,000 US-based…
Oversight Board calls on Meta to rewrite ‘incoherent’ rules against faked videos
A misleading seven second clip of President Biden could reshape Facebook’s misinformation policies ahead of the 2024 election, but the platform — and the American electorate — are running out of time. The Oversight Board, the external advisory group that Meta created to review its moderation decisions on Facebook and Instagram, issued a decision on […]
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Verizon Customers Could Receive Up to $100 in Settlement Money. How to Claim the Payout – CNET
Verizon will pay $100 million into a fund to settle claims over a misleading administrative charge if the agreement is approved.