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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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At a landmark gathering in California, workers discussed defenses against artificial intelligence and surveillance technology ...

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 ...

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Natural disasters have affected nearly 90 percent of U.S. counties since 2013, and while many households know about preparing emergency kits, a recent FEMA survey found a large drop in how many people ...

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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 ...

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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?