• Stability AI CEO Resigns and Calls for 'Transparent' AI Governance

    Stability AI’s founder and CEO has resigned to pursue decentralized artificial intelligence (AI). Emad Mostaque has stepped down as the AI firm’s chief executive and from the company’s board, Stability announced Friday (March 22) on the company’s blog. “I am proud two years after bringing on our first developer to have led Stability to hundreds of millions of […]

  • California Looks To Europe To Rein In AI

    California, home to Silicon Valley, is eager to rein in the deployment of artificial intelligence and is looking to Europe's tough-on-big-tech approach for inspiration.The richest state in the United States by GDP, California is a hotbed of no-holds-barred tech innovation, but lawmakers in state capital Sacramento want to give the industry laws and guardrails it has largely been spared in the internet age.Brussels has enacted a barrage of laws on US-dominated tech and sprinted to pass the AI Act...

  • California looks to Europe to rein in AI

    California, home to Silicon Valley, is eager to rein in the deployment of artificial intelligence and is looking to Europe's tough-on-big-tech approach for inspiration."They are taking, essentially, a European approach on artificial intelligence - which is that we must ban the technology," said Carl Szabo, the general counsel of the association, which advocates for light touch regulation of tech.

  • Syria supports Chinese initiative on AI governance

    Damascus, Mar 25 (Prensa Latina) The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed that its Government joins the Global Initiative for Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that was launched by Chinese President Xi Jiping recently. The post Syria supports Chinese initiative on AI governance first appeared on Prensa Latina.

  • The Download: new AI regulations, and a running robot

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology The AI Act is done. Here’s what will (and won’t) change After three years, the AI Act, the EU’s new sweeping AI law, jumped through its final bureaucratic hoop last week when the…

  • IT Ministry backtracks on government approval for AI models

    Unlike the advisory that came on March 1st, the new advisory no longer requires AI companies to take explicit government permission before beta testing their models.

  • Galaxy AI: Opening Doors to Millions More Users Worldwide

    Samsung is preparing to bring its Galaxy AI to a broader range of Galaxy devices. The Korean brand has released a list of compatible devices due to receiving these highly anticipated AI-powered functionalities.Samsung entered the AI race by launching the Galaxy AI with its newest flagship offering, the Galaxy S24 series. Now, many Galaxy smartphones and tablets are set to receive One UI 6.1, including Galaxy AI.TM Roh, President and Head of the MX division at Samsung Electronics, confirmed in...

  • US Treasury Warns of AI Dangers in the Financial Sector

    The Treasury Department is sounding the alarm on cybersecurity risks posed by the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the financial services sector. A new report Wednesday (March 27) highlights potential dangers and calls for urgent collaboration between government and industry to safeguard financial stability. The report, mandated by a Biden administration executive order, focuses on […]

  • UN adopts landmark resolution on global AI regulation

    The US-led resolution was described as a ‘historic step’ in sharing responsibility for safe AI and has been backed by Ireland, the UK, the EU and, notably, China. : UN adopts landmark resolution on global AI regulation

  • Japan considering legally binding regulations for AI developers

    The Japanese government is considering introducing legally binding regulations on developers of large-scale artificial intelligence systems to ensure they implement measures to address disinformation and other risks, sources close to the matter said Monday. While the government had previously leaned toward making such measures voluntary, it has recognized the need

  • Chinese government escalates its own push to police generative AI

    In a move that mirrors a debate in the U.S., China’s communist regime is taking steps to regulate the exploding field of generative artificial intelligence, announcing plans to enforce rules to label and restrict information created by powerful new tech tools.

  • Africa’s push to regulate AI starts now

    In the Zanzibar archipelago of Tanzania, rural farmers are using an AI-assisted app called Nuru that works in their native language of Swahili to detect a devastating cassava disease before it spreads. In South Africa, computer scientists have built machine learning models to analyze the impact of racial segregation in housing. And in Nairobi, Kenya,…