Oklahoma bill banning AI-generated child pornography passes House, Senate
Oklahoma bill banning AI-generated child pornography passes House, Senate
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A bill that could ban TikTok is now all but certain to become law. The Senate approved a measure that requires ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban.
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The US House of Representatives on Saturday passed a revised version of the bill that could ban TikTok. The bill was included with a package on foreign aid. It'll now go on to Senate, which is likely to vote on it very soon.
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Florida's 6-week abortion ban takes effect May 1. Here's how the law will affect access to the procedure in the Southeast.
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SafeBase taps AI to automate software security reviews
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NIST launches a new platform to assess generative AI
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops and tests tech for the U.S. government, companies and the broader public, on Monday announced the launch of NIST GenAI, a new program spearheaded by NIST to assess generative AI technologies including text- and image-generating AI. NIST GenAI will release benchmarks, help create "content authenticity" detection (i.e.
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