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House forms bipartisan AI task force |
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will each appoint 12 members to the House's artificial intelligence (AI) task force as Congress tackles AI. |
The House task force comes after the Senate formed a bipartisan team focused on AI that convened a series of AI forums last year, but the upper chamber has yet to pass on any new AI regulation. The research panel of the House task force will be chaired by Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), and the group will produce a report with recommendations for the future and bipartisan policy proposals related to AI, our colleague Lauren Irwin reported. The task force's mission is to ensure the U.S. is leading on global AI innovation, while also considering appropriate guardrails as the technology raises potential security concerns. "Because advancements in artificial intelligence have the potential to rapidly transform our economy and our society, it is important for Congress to work in a bipartisan manner to understand and plan for both the promises and the complexities of this transformative technology," Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a statement. The announcement comes one month after a bipartisan group of lawmakers said they would created a "working group" on AI. Jeffries said in a statement that "certain guardrails" are necessary to protect the public. He said bipartisan solutions are necessary to protect people from "bad actors" who may exploit the emerging tech. "The Members appointed to this Task Force bring a wide range of experience and expertise across the committees of jurisdiction and I look forward to working with them to tackle these issues in a bipartisan way," he wrote. Read more in a full report at TheHill.com. |
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X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, said Tuesday it will update spam filters after it mistakenly suspended a new account created by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. "Our platform’s defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged @yulia_navalnaya as violating our rules," X's Safety account wrote in a post Tuesday. "We unsuspended the account as soon as we … |
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The FBI and other agencies have disrupted a ransomware syndicate, known as LockBit, that was behind a series of global cyberattacks that extracted at least $120 million, according to the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA). "Today, after infiltrating the group's network, the NCA has taken control of LockBit's services, compromising their entire criminal enterprise," according to an NCA press release, adding that the … |
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The San Diego Police Department warned residents on Monday to "cross streets the old-fashioned way" after a video garnered attention showing a man operating a virtual reality (VR) headset while crossing the street in the California city. "A video making its rounds online shows our patrol team in Central Division 'face-to-face' with the future — a pedestrian donning the latest Apple Vision Pro headset while walking in the street … |
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YouTube top US streaming service: Nielsen |
YouTube was once again the top streaming service in the U.S., accounting for 8.6 percent of TV usage in January, TechCrunch reported. |
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Signal rolls out username feature |
The encrypted messaging service Signal is rolling out a new feature that will allow users to create a username to share with others in place of their phone number, The Verge reported. |
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