GM reaches tentative deal with UAW, ending widespread six-week strike

October 30, 2023

The United Autoworkers reached a tentative agreement Monday with General Motors, wrapping up a six-week strike that affected the Big three U.S. automakers and sent nearly 50,000 workers to the picket lines.  The deal, which has yet to be officially announced, came two days after the UAW expanded its strike against GM to its Spring […]

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Japan’s MagicPod takes its no-code testing platform global

October 30, 2023

Tokyo-based MagicPod is a no-code test automation platform for web and mobile apps that, until now, almost exclusively focused on the Japanese market. There, it counts Line, Japan’s most popular messaging app, among its over 500 customers. Today, the company is launching version 1.0 and with that, it is making a push for the global […]

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Governments are getting their AI-regulating boots on

October 30, 2023

We’re looking at a massive earnings week, the Biden administration’s order regarding AI, Web Summit’s new CEO, and more.

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Meta to offer ad-free subscription in Europe in bid to keep tracking other users

October 30, 2023

Meta is to offer an ad-free subscription version of Facebook and Instagram in the European Union, EEA (European Economic Area) and Switzerland, confirming the core of a report in the WSJ earlier this month. The new ad-free subscription will be available from next month, per a Meta blog post. The move follows years of privacy […]

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President Biden issues executive order to set standards for AI safety and security

October 30, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an executive order (EO) that seeks to establish “new standards” for AI safety and security, including requirements for companies developing foundation AI models to notify federal government and share results of all safety tests before they’re deployed to the public. The fast-moving generative AI movement, driven by the likes […]

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The Download: Joy Buolamwini on AI, and Meta’s beauty filter lawsuit

October 30, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Joy Buolamwini: “We’re giving AI companies a free pass” AI researcher and activist Joy Buolamwini is best known for a pioneering paper she co-wrote with Timnit Gebru in 2017 which exposed how commercial…

Video app Detail’s new feature helps you record multi-camera podcasts using iPhones

October 30, 2023

Detail, a startup with video recording and editing apps for Mac and iPhone, has released a new multiplayer feature that lets users easily record a multi-camera podcast through two iPhones (or iPads) wirelessly. The multiplayer feature, launched as an update to Detail for iOS,  also automatically syncs video and audio feeds between two devices to […]

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Why Meta is getting sued over its beauty filters

October 30, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. Dozens of states sued Meta on October 24, claiming that the company knowingly harms young users. The case is a pretty big deal and will almost certainly have…

We need to focus on the AI harms that already exist

October 30, 2023
This is an excerpt from Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini, published on October 31 by Random House. It has been lightly edited.  The term “x-risk” is used as a shorthand for the hypothetical existential risk posed by AI. While my research supports the…