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• US pushes to weaken international human rights treaty on use of AI software

  12-03-2024 21:44
  
  The US government is lobbying Council of Europe members to weaken an international treaty on human rights and AI software by exempting private vendors from compliance.Diplomats are meeting in Strasbourg, France, this week to create a final version of the treaty, which would require organizations using AI to respect human rights and adhere to democratic principles. But the US, a non-voting observer of the Council of Europe, appears to be close in its efforts to water down the treaty, Politico re
  
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• EC's use of Microsoft 365 violates data-privacy rules, watchdog group says

  12-03-2024 18:57
  
  The European Commission (EC) has violated several key data protection rules in its use of Microsoft 365 regarding the transfer of people's personal data from Europe to other regions not covered by EU data-protection laws, a key European privacy watchdog found.The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) on Tuesday chastized the EC after finding it did not take proper protective measures when sending personal data outside the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) when using the cloud-based app.T
  
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• Apple tweaks its DMA compliance strategy in Europe

  12-03-2024 17:51
  
  In what perhaps reflects ongoing backroom discussion between Apple’s App Store team and EU regulators policing the new Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple has once again modified its approach to supporting third-party software sellers on iOS devices.Starting later this spring, some EU developers will be able to offer iPhone apps directly from their websites. The second major change since Apple introduced DMA compliance suggests the company is more open to negotiation than some
  
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• OpenAI rebuts Musk’s ‘fictional’ claims over Founding Agreement

  12-03-2024 11:20
  
  In a strongly worded reply to Elon Musk, OpenAI has described the claims of the X-owner as fictitious, accusing him of attempting to take credit for the “remarkable technological advances” achieved by OpenAI.Musk’s earlier filing at the San Francisco State Court claimed that Open AI had entered into a Founding Agreement stating that it would be open-source and would not keep its technology closed and secret for proprietary commercial reasons.In its latest filing, the ChatGPT o
  
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• Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI — right idea, wrong messenger

  12-03-2024 11:00
  
  Loose cannon, always-looking-for-attention Elon Musk has again thrust himself into the public eye, this time by suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for breaching its founding agreement by turning the company away from its non-profit roots and cashing in on the billions of dollars available in the generative AI (genAI) gold rush.At stake in the suit is Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in the company. Musk claims that OpenAI was originally founded to share its wares with the world by open sou
  
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• Meta sues former executive over alleged AI theft

  12-03-2024 08:32
  
  Meta is suing its former vice president of infrastructure over allegations that he stole proprietary human resources data about the company’s top performers, and key information about its data center supply chain partners to bring to his new employer.In a complaint filed in late February in a California State Court, the software giant alleged that Dipinder Singh Khurana breached contractual agreements, loyalty, and fiduciary duties by taking proprietary, information related to Meta’
  
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• Truecaller executive’s mom explores India, calls it ‘ideal holiday destination’ - News9 LIVE

  12-03-2024 08:00 via news.google.com
  Truecaller executive’s mom explores India, calls it ‘ideal holiday destination’  News9 LIVE
  
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