China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security have outlawed the use of facial recognition without consent. The two orgs last Friday published new rules on facial recognition and an explainer that spell out how orgs that want to use facial recognition must first conduct a “personal information protection impact Read more…
Countries must develop their own artificial intelligence infrastructure or risk significant economic losses as the technology transforms global economies. “It will have an impact on GDP of every country in the double digits in the coming years,” Mensch told the A16z podcast, warning that nations without domestic AI systems would Read more…
Scientists are developing biomarkers to objectively measure pain, addressing a fundamental medical challenge that has contributed to the opioid crisis and led to consistent underestimation of pain in women and minorities. Four research teams funded by the Department of Health and Human Services are developing technologies to quantify pain like Read more…
23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Sunday, leaving the fate of millions of people’s genetic information up in the air as the company deals with the legal and financial fallout of not properly protecting that genetic information in the first place. The filing shows how dangerous it is to provide Read more…
CERN faces a pivotal decision about its future as the Large Hadron Collider approaches the end of its usefulness by the early 2040s. Management proposes building the Future Circular Collider (FCC), a machine with a 90-kilometer circumference that would smash particles at eight times the energy of the LHC. This Read more…
Worries over China’s “3D” problem — that deflation, debt and demographics are structurally hampering growth — are melting away. Instead, investors are talking about how the world’s second-largest economy can take on the US and challenge its technological dominance. There is the prevailing sense that China’s “engineer dividend” is finally Read more…
Microsoft is expanding its Security Copilot platform with six new AI agents designed to autonomously assist cybersecurity teams by handling tasks like phishing alerts, data loss incidents, and vulnerability monitoring. There are also five third-party AI agents created by its partners, including OneTrust and Tanium. Microsoft’s six security agents will Read more…