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Trump Seemingly Poised to Relax Regulation of AI

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Remember the anecdote about President Biden getting spooked by a blockbuster film’s depiction of artificial intelligence run amok? The story goes that in November 2023, he issued an executive order calling for the federal government to crea...

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Split with EY the Latest Bad News for Super Micro

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Accounting giant Ernst & Young recently took the extraordinary step of firing one of its clients, Super Micro Computer. A public filing last week by the California-based maker of computer servers revealed EY used remarkably strong langu...

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Cybersecurity Threats to Financial Services Emerge with Growth of AI

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The hit film Terminator 2: Judgment Day cemented Arnold Schwarzenegger’s leading-man status with his portrayal of a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator assigned to help humanity stop the artificial intelligence Skynet from taking over the world....

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5 Questions Raised by OpenAI’s For-Profit Shift

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Arguably one of the least nonprofit of nonprofit entities to ever exist, OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit company began in earnest with last week’s announcement that it has raised $6.6 billion in venture capital funding. OpenAI has opera...

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Boosted by AI, Nuclear Power is Having a Moment

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It’s a widely shared concern that artificial intelligence has the potential to create disaster of some kind for our species. It seems only fitting, then, that to feed the energy needs of its AI services, Microsoft has turned to the nuclear...

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