Australia has outlined plans for new AI regulations, focusing on human oversight and transparency as the technology spreads rapidly across business and everyday life.
The country’s Industry and Science Minister, Ed Husic, on Thursday, introduced ten voluntary AI guidelines and launched a month-long consultation to assess whether these measures should be made mandatory in high-risk areas.
The World Wide Web Foundation, the organization whose mission has been to make the web safer and more accessible, has shut down, according to The Register. The foundation, which close its virtual doors Sept. 27, says its mission has largely been fulfilled and other organizations can take over the work. When the organization was founded in…
Apple isn’t paying OpenAI to carry support for the generativeAI (genAI) firm’s Chat GPT within Apple Intelligence, but it might instead invest in the Microsoft-backed company. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is in talks to take part in a new funding round for OpenAI. If it follows suit, it will join Microsoft, Nvidia, and Thrive…
You start a conversation with someone, wondering if you’ve met them before. But then, your smart glasses tell you their name and where, when, and in what context you actually did meet them. Is this a helpful, powerful way to avoid offense, reconnect, and gain context about the people you encounter? Or is it an…
Microsoft fixed 88 vulnerabilities on Tuesday as part of its monthly patching cycle. Six of those flaws were already being actively exploited in the wild before a patch was available and another four were publicly disclosed, putting the total number of zero-day vulnerabilities covered in this release at 10. Of the 88 vulnerabilities patched only…
Even in today’s modern age, call center customer service continues to be a nightmare. Wait times can be long, customers get frustrated when caught in loops with limited and robotic chatbots, human agents are overworked and don’t always have the visibility into information they need, calls are dropped, information is lost … and the list…
Zooming out, will Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential race give Apple more bargaining power when negotiating with European regulators — and to what extent will the ongoing US anti-trust investigation of the company (shaky as it is) gain presidential support? Those could be the kind of questions Apple CEO Tim Cook is asking…