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The Download: the AI Bill of Rights, and fixing the Nord Stream pipelines

The news: US President Biden has today unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights, which outlines five protections Americans should have in the AI age. Biden has in the past called for... Read more »

The White House just unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights

Biden has called for stronger privacy protections and for tech companies to stop collecting data in the past. But the US — home to some of the world’s biggest tech and AI... Read more »

The White House just moved to hold AI more accountable 

While Biden has in the past called for stronger protections for privacy and for tech companies to stop collecting data, the US — home to some of the world’s biggest tech and... Read more »

Get ready for the next generation of AI

Researchers from Google also submitted a paper to the conference about their new model called DreamFusion, which generates 3D images based on text prompts. The 3D models can be viewed from any angle,... Read more »

Here’s how the Nord Stream gas pipelines could be fixed

Once investigators can safely get hands on, the tricky work of triaging the problems and finding solutions begins. “You assess: ‘Okay, what is the state of the pipe? What are the damages?’”... Read more »

The Download: Europe’s AI crackdown, and Iran’s internet resistance

What’s happening: The EU is creating new rules to make it easier to sue AI companies for harm. A bill unveiled last week, which is likely to become law in a couple... Read more »

The EU wants to put companies on the hook for harmful AI

The new bill, called the AI Liability Directive, will add teeth to the EU’s AI Act, which is set to become EU law around the same time. The AI Act would require... Read more »

The Download: text-to-video AI, and China’s big methanol bet

Can we find ways to live beyond 100? Millionaires are betting on it. Scientists and biotech companies have been networking with uber-wealthy investors at a swanky conference in Switzerland this week, making... Read more »

China is betting big on another gas engine alternative: methanol cars

Today, the leading company making methanol from carbon dioxide is Carbon Recycling International, an Icelandic company. Geely invested in CRI in 2015, and they have partnered to build the world’s largest CO2-to-fuel... Read more »

Can we find ways to live beyond 100? Millionaires are betting on it.

But to test the same treatments in people, we’d need to run clinical trials for decades, which would be very difficult and extremely expensive. So the hunt is on for chemical clues... Read more »