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.

Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse How a family’s neighborhood, age, and mental health might get their case a deeper look By Colin Lecher ...

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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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Hello World How AI Detection Software Turns Professors into Cops, Tech as Systems of World-Making, and More A conversation with agroecologist Maywa Montenegro By Tomas Apodaca ...

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 ...

In October 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that an AI-powered chatbot would help New York business owners navigate the government. Months later, that chatbot is telling businesses to ...

News The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching Human rights advocates warn of algorithmic bias, legal violations, and other dire consequences of relying on AI to monitor the border By Monique ...