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Elon Musk’s xAI highlights societal impact with Nevada incorporation: report

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” xAI also noted that it is guided by its mission to “advance our collective understanding of the universe.” ” Unlike traditional corporations solely focused on shareholder value, xAI’s legal structure as a benefit corporation formalizes its commitment to positive societal and environmental outcomes.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers. DOT, NHTSA and the University of Michigan. So far, permits have been issued to Google, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Delphi, and Audi.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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It served cell service and tech companies with geofence warrants—search warrants demanding details on every device and app active within a specified geographic area. The legal documents suggest that about 35 rioters were identified this way, without first being named by witnesses. on 6 January. “The The FBI did not use anything new.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wendy is a Professor of Political Science and Principles Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. A lot of companies that keep data, big tech, like a lot of the companies we know and are familiar with, like Google and Meta , they’re going to have to decide what to do with all these data about people once they physically die.

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Deploying Data Science and AI to Fight Wildlife Trafficking

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She is joining together with Jennifer Jacquet, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU College of Arts and Science; Gohar Petrossian, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at CUNY; and Sunandan Chakraborty, Assistant Professor of Data Science at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis.

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