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(NewsNation) — Global lithium prices have cratered, due in large part to China’s slowing demand for electric vehicles, according to a new report. The price of the commodity has dropped 80% from last year, the Financial Times reported, citing information from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. It’s now at its lowest point since 2020. Lithium is the … Read more
When Aaliyah Iglesias was caught vaping at a Texas high school, she didn’t realize how much could be taken from her. Suddenly, the rest of her high school experience was threatened: being student council president, her role as debate team captain and walking at graduation. Even her college scholarships were at risk. She was sent … Read more
We are all photographers now, with a phone in our pocket ready to capture life, love and everything in between – which, quite often, is incredibly mundane, such as what we had for lunch. But how can you make sure you are taking the best possible pictures? Here, photographers share their top tips. Use what … Read more
(NewsNation) — Cybersecurity researchers say they’ve discovered a supermassive leak of data being dubbed the “mother of all breaches.” The 26 billion records are from “thousands of meticulously compiled and reindexed leaks, breaches, and privately sold databases,” Cybernews reported. The news outlet discovered the exposed records in conjunction with Bob Dyachenko, cybersecurity researcher at SecurityDiscovery.com. … Read more
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Hugging Face is one of the more popular AI model repositories, storing open-sourced foundation models like Meta’s Llama 2 and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion. It also has many databases for model training. There are over 350,000 models hosted on the platform for developers to work with or upload their own models to Hugging Face, much … Read more
A Democratic lawmaker said that artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes are a bipartisan issue in the wake of reports of a recent spread of AI-generated graphic images of pop superstar Taylor Swift on social media. “What’s happened to Taylor Swift is nothing new,” Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) said in a post on X, the platform formerly … Read more
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an inquiry into the investments of Big Tech companies that provide cloud services to smaller AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. The FTC sent letters to Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI, requiring the companies to explain the impact these investments have on the competitive landscape of generative AI. … Read more
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You can all stop calling now — The Pokémon Company’s lawyers are on the case. In a statement posted on the company’s website, The Pokémon Company says it’s aware of a “game released in January 2024” and plans to “take appropriate measures to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property rights related to the … Read more
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Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors, tried to send a 90-second video to regulators of an incident in which one of its driverless cars dragged a pedestrian 20 feet but was hampered by “internet connectivity issues,” according to a report compiled by a law firm investigating the incident. The law firm, Quinn Emanuel … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — General Motors is facing a U.S. Justice Department investigation into a gruesome collision that critically injured a pedestrian and derailed its self-driving car ambitions. The Justice Department inquiry disclosed in a report Thursday is the latest twist in a debacle that began in October after a robotaxi operated by GM’s Cruise … Read more
