Published on: 2025-06-12 07:14:14
Texas governor signs online safety law in blow to Apple and Google 2 hours ago Share Save Lily Jamali • @lilyjamali North America Technology Correspondent Reporting from San Francisco Share Save Reuters Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the state's online child safety bill on Tuesday Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed an online child safety bill that requires Apple and Google to ensure that their app stores verify the age of users in the nation's second most populous state. Under the new l
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Boeing and the Department of Justice have reached an “agreement in principle” that will keep the airplane manufacturer from facing criminal charges for allegedly misleading regulators about safety features on its 737 Max plane before two separate crashes that killed 346 people. The tentative deal, according to a court filing, will see Boeing pay out $1.1 billion in penalties and safety investments, as well as set aside an additional $444 million for the families of victims involved in the crashe
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Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was inked in 2019, several of them were stunned to discover the extent of the promises that Altman had made to Microsoft for which technologies it would get access to in return for its investment. The terms of the deal didn’t align with what they had understood from Altman. If AI safety issues actually arose in OpenAI’s models, they worried, those commitments woul
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 14:03:54
Tesla has reportedly yet to start testing its robotaxi service in Austin without a safety driver behind the wheel – just weeks before the planned launch. For months now, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have been hyping the launch of “Tesla Robotaxi”, a Uber-like ride-hailing service powered by autonomous Tesla vehicles, starting with a launch in Austin, Texas in June. We have extensively reported that this launch is disappointing compared to what Tesla promised for years: that all its consumer vehicle
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During Tesla's earnings call last month, CEO Elon Musk admitted that the carmaker's much-lauded self-driving robotaxi service would be relying on safety drivers. As The Information reports, the company is already woefully behind schedule and hasn't even started testing its autonomous vehicles without a safety driver as of April. And the company is quickly running out of time. Musk promised that Tesla would launch an autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin in a matter of weeks — a characteris
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OpenAI has launched a new web page called the safety evaluations hub to publicly share information related to things like the hallucination rates of its models. The hub will also highlight if a model produces harmful content, how well it behaves as instructed and attempted jailbreaks. The tech company claims this new page will provide additional transparency on OpenAI, a company that, for context, has faced multiple lawsuits alleging it illegally used copyrighted material to train its AI models
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 21:38:40
OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit is pitching as an effort to increase transparency. On Wednesday, OpenAI launched the Safety evaluations hub, a web page showing how the company’s models score on various tests for harmful content generation, jailbreaks, and hallucinations. OpenAI says that it’ll use the hub to share metrics on an “ongoing basis,” and that it intends to update the hub with “major model updates” g
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A Visual History of the Safety Pin Antiquity In Homer’s Odyssey, Antinous, (one of the unscrupulous suitors of Odysseus’ wife Penelope) presents Penelope with a gift of jeweled pins in an attempt to seduce her: Then Antinous said, “Queen Penelope, daughter of Icarius, take as many presents as you please from any one who will give them to you; it is not well to refuse a present; but we will not go about our business nor stir from where we are, till you have married the best man among us whoeve
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Published 2021-03-19 Updated 2022-09-21 I keep seeing discussions that equate zig's level of memory safety with c (or occasionally with rust!). Neither is particularly accurate. This is an attempt at a more detailed breakdown. This article is limited to memory safety. See Assorted thoughts on zig and rust for a more general comparison. I'm concerned mostly with security. In practice, it doesn't seem that any level of testing is sufficient to prevent vulnerabilities due to memory safety in la
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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has missed a self-imposed deadline to publish a finalized AI safety framework, as noted by watchdog group The Midas Project. xAI isn’t exactly known for its strong commitments to AI safety as it’s commonly understood. A recent report found that the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, would undress photos of women when asked. Grok can also be considerably more crass than chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT, cursing without much restraint to speak of. Nonetheless, in February a
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NanoStockk / Getty Images The debate over the risks and harms of artificial intelligence often focuses on what governments can or should do. However, just as important are the choices that AI researchers themselves make. This week, in Singapore, more than 100 scientists from around the world proposed guidelines for how researchers should approach making AI more "trustworthy, reliable, and secure." Also: A few secretive AI companies could crush free society, researchers warn The recommendatio
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The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation is challenging the United Kingdom’s online safety rules in court over concerns they may enable “vandalism, disinformation, or abuse” to go unchecked on its Wikipedia platform. Wikimedia announced on Thursday that its legal challenge specifically targets the Online Safety Act’s (OSA) categorization regulations, which the foundation says are written broadly enough to hold Wikipedia to the strictest duties that websites can be subject to. OSA is a set of safety
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Wikipedia legally challenges 'flawed' online safety rules 3 hours ago Share Save Chris Vallance Senior Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images Wikipedia is taking legal action against new Online Safety Act regulations it says could threaten the safety of its volunteer editors and their ability to keep harmful content off the site. The Wikimedia Foundation - the non-profit which supports the online encyclopaedia - is seeking a judicial review of rules which could mean Wikipedia is subjecte
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The government of Singapore released a blueprint today for global collaboration on artificial intelligence safety following a meeting of AI researchers from the US, China, and Europe. The document lays out a shared vision for working on AI safety through international cooperation rather than competition. “Singapore is one of the few countries on the planet that gets along well with both East and West,” says Max Tegmark, a scientist at MIT who helped convene the meeting of AI luminaries last mon
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I learned a new software development term from Scott Hanselman: "stringly typed". Scott describes "stringly typed" as follows: [whenever] you are passing strings around when a better type exists. An application is "stringly typed" when type information is available, yet you're calling other systems or functions based on strings or stringified data. Unsurprisingly, most API calls are "stringly typed" because request and response bodies are often stringified JSON data. const response = await f
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Andy Walker / Android Authority Tracking my health has become a natural part of my daily life. It gives me peace of mind and gradually encourages me to improve my overall physical condition. I primarily rely on my Wear OS smartwatch to monitor my daily activity, stress levels, and sleep quality. However, in certain instances, I wish it could do more to bring any issues to my attention. One such example would be during safety-critical activities, like driving. Do you want Android Auto and Wear
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 17:02:51
Washington, DC CNN — Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston. On Thursday, autonomous trucking firm Aurora announced it launched commercial service in Texas under its first customers, Uber Freight and Hirschbach Motor Lines, which delivers time- and temperature-sensitive freight. Both companies conducted test runs with Aurora, including safety drivers to monitor the self-driving technology dubbed “Aurora Driver
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Washington, DC CNN — Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston. On Thursday, autonomous trucking firm Aurora announced it launched commercial service in Texas under its first customers, Uber Freight and Hirschbach Motor Lines, which delivers time- and temperature-sensitive freight. Both companies conducted test runs with Aurora, including safety drivers to monitor the self-driving technology dubbed “Aurora Driver
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 13:52:03
A recently released Google AI model scores worse on certain safety tests than its predecessor, according to the company’s internal benchmarking. In a technical report published this week, Google reveals that its Gemini 2.5 Flash model is more likely to generate text that violates its safety guidelines than Gemini 2.0 Flash. On two metrics, “text-to-text safety” and “image-to-text safety,” Gemini 2.5 Flash regresses 4.1% and 9.6%, respectively. Text-to-text safety measures how frequently a mode
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FRIEDERIKE NIEDTNER, Principal Technical Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers: The following talk combines two projects that both harness the LLM’s capabilities to understand and produce code. Both aim to help developers tackle the difficulties of safe low-level programming. One to ensure memory safety in legacy C code; the other presents RustAssistant, a tool for developers to automatically fix compilation errors in Rust. ASEEM RASTOGI: Hi, my name is Aseem Rastogi, and I’
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The path to Vision Zero requires reducing severe crashes and improving the safety of those most at risk. Our latest research paper shows that the Waymo Driver is making significant strides in both areas. By reducing the most dangerous crashes and providing better protection for pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable road users, Waymo is making streets safer in cities where it operates. The paper, accepted to be published in the Traffic Injury Prevention Journal, expands on our Safety Impac
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 12:06:02
Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies. Woven by Toyota will also join the potential collaboration as Toyota’s strategic enabler, contributing its strengths in advanced software and mobility innovation. This potential partnership is built on a shared vision of improving road safety and delivering increased mobility for all. Toyota and Waymo
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Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies. Woven by Toyota will also join the potential collaboration as Toyota’s strategic enabler, contributing its strengths in advanced software and mobility innovation. This potential partnership is built on a shared vision of improving road safety and delivering increased mobility for all. Toyota and Waymo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-31 19:00:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is supposed to help improve the accuracy of enterprise AI by providing grounded content. While that is often the case, there is also an unintended side effect. According to surprising new research published today by Bloomberg, RAG can potentially make large language models (LLMs) unsafe. Bloomberg’s paper, ‘RAG LLMs are Not Safer:
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Highly anticipated: A new player in the American automotive industry is making waves with a radically different approach to vehicle design, manufacturing, and ownership. Slate Auto, a Michigan-based startup, is preparing to launch its first product: the Slate Truck. This compact, electric pickup challenges many conventions that have come to define modern vehicles. The Slate Truck stands out for its
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk made sweeping promises during the company's earnings call on Tuesday, vowing that there would be "thousands" of humanoid Optimus robots roaming Tesla's factories by the "end of this year" and that it would be "selling fully autonomous rides in June in Austin" in "maybe ten or 20 vehicles on day one." "There will be millions of Teslas operating fully autonomously in the second half of next year," Musk vowed. While investors were seemingly satisfied simply by having Musk hint
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed he wants to “Make America Healthy Again,” but pretty much everything he’s done since taking over as head of the Department of Health and Human Services seems destined to make Americans sicker and less healthy. Reuters reports that, under Kennedy, the Food and Drug Administration has announced it will suspend a quality control program that tests milk and other dairy products. The outlet cites emails from the FDA’s Division of Dairy Safety to report that the shut
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The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth since 1998, housing groups of astronauts in the microgravity environment around 250 miles above the surface of the planet. All of that time in space has taken a toll on its aging hardware, and the space station is due to retire within the next few years. Until then, however, safety experts are warning of long-running issues that threaten the safety of the ISS, and the crew on board. During a meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory P
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 09:33:28
Geoff Ralston, well-known in the startup community for his years at Y Combinator, is back in the formal investing ring, he announced Thursday. His new fund is called Safe Artificial Intelligence Fund, or SAIF, which is both an explanation of its thesis and a play on words. Ralston is specifically looking for startups that “enhance AI safety, security, and responsible deployment,” as his fund’s website describes. He plans to write $100,000 checks as a safe, “pun intended,” he says, with a $10 m
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New Jersey's Attorney General Matthew Platkin is suing Discord over the chat company's child safety features. The lawsuit claims that Discord has "misled parents about the efficacy of its safety controls and obscured the risks children faced when using the application." The Office of the Attorney General and the state's Division of Consumer Affairs concluded that Discord violated New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act after a multiyear investigation into the company. The details of the lawsuit are cur
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