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The frightening power of Big Tech is one of the few issues Democrats and Republicans still agree on, even if they don’t agree on the specifics. Conservatives often claim to be victims of a type of social media censorship that doesn’t exist, while Democrats tend to focus on corporate power…

I’m always a bit relieved when a tech company’s algorithm seems to fall short of mind reading. It’s somewhat reassuring when a so-called smart ad displays hideous shoes I would never buy just because I once bought a different pair from the same brand, or when Facebook suggests I befriend…

Employees at tech giant Google are reportedly demanding that the company stop selling software to law enforcement agencies. Employees believe the company should be ” joining the millions who want to defang and defund these institutions.” Recode reports that more than 1,600 Google employees have signed an internal petition calling…

Roundup Welcome to this week's roundup of AI-related news. The US military wants AI tech to help find a COVID-19 vaccine: The US Department of Defense plans to spend about $3.8bn – given by Congress through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act – to fund AI research…

A funny thing has been happening on YouTube. For some reason, certain combinations of Chinese characters have been immediately removed from the platform within a few short seconds. No warning or reason would be given to the Mandarin-speaking moderatees. And it's not like they had been foul or freaky in…

By Keoni Everington, of the Taiwan News A White House petition was created last week after news broke that the Twitter accounts of Chinese dissidents started to disappear after a controversial Chinese-American artificial intelligence (AI) expert was hired to serve on the company's board. On May 11, Twitter announced in…

Skip to comments. TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A White House Petition calls for investigation of Twitter censorship after Li Fei-Fei hired Taiwan News ^ | 5/25/20 | By Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer Posted on 05/25/2020 11:39:44 AM PDT by ifinnegan TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A White House Petition…

By CNet May 21, 2020Comments Google announced a new deal with the Pentagon. Credit: James Martin/CNET Google on Wednesday said it had struck a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense to build cloud technology designed to detect and respond to cyberthreats. The search engine giant declined to disclose the…

Last month, before Google and Apple announced their joint effort to enable COVID-19 exposure notifications, I wrote about the trouble with using Bluetooth-based solutions for contact tracing. Chief among the issues is getting a meaningful number of people to download any app in the first place, public health officials told…

2020-05-20 -- Commentators have been raising concerns over Twitter's recent hiring of artificial intelligence (AI) star Fei-Fei Li, who has links to the Chinese Communist Party. Twitter appointed Stanford professor and former Google vice president Li to its board as an independent director earlier this month, citing her AI expertise.…