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The author of California’s SB 1047, the nation’s most controversial AI safety bill of 2024, is back with a new AI bill that could shake up Silicon Valley. California state Senator Scott Wiener introduced a new bill on Friday that would protect employees at leading AI labs, allowing them to speak out if they think their company’s AI systems could be a “critical risk” to society. The new bill, SB 53, would also create a public cloud computing cluster, called CalCompute, to give researchers and startups the necessary computing resources to develop AI that benefits the public. Wiener’s last AI…

Tonal is a high-tech slab of ambition—a gym in a mirror for those wanting to trade dumbbells for algorithm-powered gains. Tonal 2 is sleeker, sharper, and somehow even more expensive than before. At $4,295 (plus several add-on costs), it’s both a statement piece and a serious financial commitment.I wanted to know if Tonal could change the way I train. After weeks of testing, I analyzed everything from installation to daily performance to see if Tonal 2 could keep me motivated—no small feat given my squirrel-like attention span—or if it would just turn my living room into the set of a…

As flights began picking up early last year, the people who live closest to the drone depot started fuming over the noise. Residents appealed to the city to do something, but Texas lawmakers have essentially banned cities from regulating drones, leaving local officials powerless.Smith, who previously worked as a city public works director in charge of big projects, says the only developments that he had seen attract this amount of opposition were landfills. The drone pushback also attracted international media attention, sparking concerns at city hall.Public records show city officials have suggested numerous options for Amazon’s potential relocation, including a…

As the AI industry focuses on transparency and security, debates around the true meaning of “openness” are intensifying. Experts from open-source security firm Endor Labs weighed in on these pressing topics. Andrew Stiefel, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Endor Labs, emphasised the importance of applying lessons learned from software security to AI systems. “The US government’s 2021 Executive Order on Improving America’s Cybersecurity includes a provision requiring organisations to produce a software bill of materials (SBOM) for each product sold to federal government agencies.” An SBOM is essentially an inventory detailing the open-source components within a product, helping detect vulnerabilities.…

The notion of becoming more “customer-focused” is now a critical business imperative for most ambitious companies. And as they drive for that extra competitive edge, design thinking is growing into an indispensable tool for developers and designers alike. The design thinking process is an iterative methodology that aims to understand end user behavior, challenge existing assumptions, and redefine problems to create solutions that may not be immediately apparent. It helps designers question fundamental assumptions and reframe a problem in a more human-centric way, and it drives more fundamentally user-friendly products.   As put forth in an overview by the Institute of Design at…

Also interesting is the Smart ForcePad trackpad, which has a three-layer illuminated dashboard—you can cycle through these layers to access specific keys. One layer is the numeric keys, for example, and another layer is the media controls.The whole machine is 16.9 inches thick, slightly more than a MacBook Pro. Sadly, Lenovo didn’t say if it’s considering to turn this concept into reality, though it did say this model is specifically powered by Intel’s Core Ultra 7 chip with 32 GB of RAM.Yoga Solar PCIf your laptop tends to sit closed at your desk when you’re not using it, you might…

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Key to its success is Xiaomi’s LaserLink technology. This is a proprietary optical communication module, apparent as a small dot on the back of the phone and the lens where data is transferred as light (near-infrared laser) at speeds of up to 10 Gbps. It’s fast enough to work in concert with Xiaomi’s AI and computational photography on the phone in a way that traditional external lenses cannot.The lens has two pins that connect on the back to draw power from the phone, and Xiaomi says the power draw of the lens is comparable to a built-in camera system. It’s…

It chose a restaurant, but then couldn’t complete the process as the spot it chose required a credit card to confirm a reservation, at which point the user had to take over. You can be flexible in your query—in another example, asking it to book a “highly rated” restaurant meant it would look at reviews with high scores, though the agent doesn’t do any more research than that. It’s not cross-referencing OpenTable reviews with data from other parts of the web, especially since all of this data is processed on device and isn’t sent to the cloud.This kind of agentic…

Artificial intelligence is a deep and convoluted world. The scientists who work in this field often rely on jargon and lingo to explain what they’re working on. As a result, we frequently have to use those technical terms in our coverage of the artificial intelligence industry. That’s why we thought it would be helpful to put together a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases that we use in our articles. We will regularly update this glossary to add new entries as researchers continually uncover novel methods to push the frontier of artificial intelligence while…