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On Tuesday Microsoft announced a new initiative called "Community-First AI Infrastructure" that commits the company to paying full electricity costs for its data centers and refusing to seek local property tax reductions.

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On Wednesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health, a dedicated section of the AI chatbot designed for "health and wellness conversations" intended to connect a user's health and medical records to the chatbot in a secure way.

But mixing generative AI technology li...


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There’s a well-worn pattern in the development of AI chatbots. Researchers discover a vulnerability and exploit it to do something bad. The platform introduces a guardrail that stops the attack from working. Then, researchers devise a simple tweak that once again imperils chatbot users.

The reason more often than not is that AI is so inherently designed to comply with ...


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Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that’s among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning of the year.

According to the Cali...


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