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english.elpais.com
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

ChatGPT chief says artificial intelligence should be regulated by a US or global agency

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law hearing on artificial intelligence, on May 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.Patrick Semansky (AP) The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems.
www.kvue.com
1 year ago
Marketing

Congress moves to ban TikTok from US government devices

WASHINGTON  TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a government spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday, the latest push by American lawmakers against the Chinese-owned social media app.The $1.7 trillion package includes requirements for the Biden administration to prohibit most uses of TikTok or any other app created by its owner, ByteDance Ltd.
Engadget
1 year ago
Marketing

Lawmakers press TikTok about China and user data in Senate hearing | Engadget

Top executives from Meta, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok just wrapped up a three-hour hearing in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
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republicans
www.mercurynews.com
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

ChatGPT chief says AI should be regulated by US, global agency

By Matt O'Brien | Associated Press The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems.As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live.
www.cnn.com
11 months ago
US politics

I don't intend to support him': GOP senators push back on Trump's controversial town hall claims

A number of GOP senators pushed back on controversial claims made by Donald Trump at Wednesday night's CNN town hall, telling CNN they disagreed with him on a range of issues in a sign of the divisions within the Republican party over the former president.John Cornyn, a member of Senate Republican leadership, told CNN after the town hall that Trump's inability to appeal to voters outside of his base is a problem.
The Verge
1 year ago
Marketing

Sen. Rand Paul becomes latest lawmaker opposing TikTok ban

On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) came out in opposition to a bipartisan effort to ban TikTok, condemning Republicans and Democrats for a move he said could chill First Amendment-protected speech."I hope saner minds will reflect on which is more dangerous: videos of teenagers dancing, or the precedent of the US government banning speech," Paul said on the Senate floor Wednesday.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

Senate Dems confident they can repeal Iraq war authorizations - despite absences

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who sponsored the measure along with Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), was still confident Tuesday that the measure would pass."We feel like we're gonna have well north of 60 votes," he said in a brief interview.On its face, the math looks good for the legislation, with 12 Republicans backing the bill - enough to hit the necessary 60 votes, provided Democrats hang together.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

House Republicans introduce Parents Bill of Rights' aimed at oversight in education

House Republicans have introduced a bill aimed at increasing so-called parental rights in the classroom, continuing to emphasize an issue that has emerged as a central party platform.Among other things, H.R. 5, also known as the Parents Bill of Rights Act, would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require schools to provide parents with a list of books and reading materials available in the school library as well as posting curriculum publicly.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

Senators warn Big Tech on Section 230: Reform is coming'

US senators said Wednesday that bipartisan support is growing for revising a federal immunity law for tech platforms and websites known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a warning aimed squarely at large social media platforms.Here's a message to Big Tech: Reform is coming, said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chaired a technology subcommittee hearing to consider changes to the law.
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social-media
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
LGBT

Trans Tennesseans fear violent backlash as trans identity blamed for school shooting

Transgender people in Tennessee fear retaliatory violence after Nashville police said that a recent school shooter may have been trans.After Audrey Hale allegedly killed three children and three adults in a Monday shooting at the Covenant School, a private Presbyterian elementary school in Nashville, local police said they thought that Hale was transgender.
Advocate
1 year ago
LGBT

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley Seems to Think There's Only One Gender

As life seems to imitate art in an ever-increasing way, it has become a part of our collective consciousness that Missouri senator and ultra-MAGA, anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Josh Hawley seems to have abandoned gender as a construct.
moresocial-media
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www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Key takeaways from the Senate hearing on the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment

A powerful Senate panel is holding a hearing Thursday on the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle call for answers and action in the wake of the disaster.The hearing is taking place after the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train on February 3 that released toxic chemicals into the air, water and soil of East Palestine.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Classified documents found at second Biden office: reports

A second set of classified documents has been found at an office used by President Biden after he left the vice presidency, according to multiple reports published Wednesday.Neither the location of the office nor the contents of the documents were reported.The White House did not immediately comment.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

Seth Meyers Is Thrilled by G.O.P.'s New Treatment of Trump

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep  and lets us get paid to watch comedy.Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.The Republican Party and Fox News seem to be turning on former President Donald J. Trump after his negative influence on the midterm elections.
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New York Daily News
1 year ago
Marketing

TikTok to be banned on government devices under omnibus spending bill

Say goodbye to dance videos on government phones.The popular app TikTok will be banned on federal government devices once a shutdown-averting $1.7 trillion spending bill is signed into law by President Biden.Though the bipartisan legislation was largely focused on funding the government, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
www.mediaite.com
1 year ago
Marketing

Senate Votes to Ban TikTok on Government Devices

Mario Tama/Getty Images The Senate passed on Wednesday a bill to ban TikTok on U.S. government devices.The No TikTok on Government Devices Act, introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), passed by unanimous consent, meaning no senator objected to it being passed without a roll-call vote.Tonight the Senate unanimously passed my bill to BAN TikTok on all government devices, tweeted Hawley.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

GOP senators call for postponing leadership elections

They propose to postpone leadership elections until after all the Senate races are called, which will take nearly a month as the Georgia runoff election looms in early December."Holding leadership elections without hearing from the candidates as to how they will perform their leadership duties and before we know whether we will be in the majority or even who all our members are violates the most basic principles of a democratic process," the letter reads.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

THE TRASH REPORT: Josh Hawley Jogs, Biden Takes a Break (Not), and Arnold Says "He'll Be Back"... To Fart On You

Whaddup, sluts!* Welcome to another edition of THE TRASH REPORT, where I, Elinor Jones, am back on my bullshit, and you can read along.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

THE TRASH REPORT: Josh Hawley Jogs, Biden Takes a Break (Not), and Arnold Says "He'll Be Back"... To Fart On You

Whaddup, sluts!* Welcome to another edition of THE TRASH REPORT, where I, Elinor Jones, am back on my bullshit, and you can read along.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
LGBT

Josh Hawley accused of transphobic line of questioning during sharp exchange with law professor

Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri was accused by a law professor of engaging in a line of transphobic questioning during a hearing Tuesday on the legal consequences of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade.
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New York Daily News
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence must be regulated, testifies CEO behind ChatGPT

Government regulation is "critical" to keep risks down with artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT, the CEO of the company behind the bot testified Tuesday.Speaking at a Senate hearing in Washington, OpenAI honcho Sam Altman addressed public concerns about the fast-growing technology and called for the creation of an agency to license leading artificial intelligence.
SecurityWeek
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

ChatGPT's Chief Testifies Before Congress, Calls for New Agency to Regulate Artificial Intelligence

The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention "will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful" AI systems."As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

Black Caucus presses Senate Dems to blow up tradition on judges

So the Black Caucus, joined by a coalition of progressive groups, is turning up the heat on Senate Democrats in what's becoming the most consequential battle over chamber rules since Democrats tried last year to weaken the filibuster."I don't know why anyone, let alone Senate Democrats, would hold up a Jim Crow practice," Black Caucus Chair Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) said in an interview on Wednesday, describing the GOP's use of blue slips against judicial nominees as a civil rights issue.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

New GOP senator irks colleagues with Judiciary committee push

"This is something the Missouri senators need to work out," Blackburn said in an interview."I'm the only Republican woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee and I don't intend to come off the committee," she added.Blackburn joined the panel after the GOP drew heat for having no female members during the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

Hawley aims to reshape Senate GOP with Vance and Masters

Josh Hawley doesn't just want to flip the Senate by electing fellow Republicans Blake Masters and J.D. Vance.He wants to bend the entire GOP conference with a bloc of like-minded senators.The Missouri senator, who helped convince both candidates to run, will go to Arizona on Friday for Masters, Ohio for Vance on Saturday and then finish the campaign on Monday in Missouri for GOP candidate Eric Schmitt.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Conservatives are seething because Joe Biden mocked Josh Hawley's Nashville shooting theory

President Joe Biden cracked a joke about Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and the right is outraged.Since Nashville chief of police John Drake revealed that investigators believe the Nashville school shooter was transgender, many on the right have been trying to paint the shooting as proof that LGBTQ+ people, and particularly transgender people, have declared an existential war against Christians.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
LGBT

Tucker Carlson says trans people are Christians' "natural enemies" in doomsday rant

Just weeks after a Daily Wire host called for " eliminating transgenderism," Fox News host Tucker Carlson described in apocalyptic terms that transgender people are the "natural enemy" of Christianity on his show last night in a rant about the Nashville school shooter, who is possibly transgender.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
LGBT

Josh Hawley mocked for telling his supporters there is only one gender

People are laughing at Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for implying that he believes there is only one gender.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Por que varios paises intentan prohibir TikTok?

En los ultimos meses, legisladores de Estados Unidos, Europa y Canada han intensificado sus esfuerzos por restringir el acceso a TikTok, la popular aplicacion de videos breves propiedad de la empresa china ByteDance, al alegar amenazas a la seguridad.El 27 de febrero, la Casa Blanca comunico a los organismos federales que disponian de 30 dias para eliminar la aplicacion de sus dispositivos.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

TikTok won't commit to stopping US data flows to China

(CNN Business)TikTok repeatedly declined to commit to US lawmakers on Wednesday that the short-form video app will cut off flows of US user data to China, instead promising that the outcome of its negotiations with the US government "will satisfy all national security concerns."
Advocate
1 year ago
Music

Randy Rainbow Gets Grammy Nom, Up Against Dave Chapelle & Louis CK

Randy Rainbow has received a Grammy nomination for his first full-length studio album, A Little Brains, a Little Talent.Rainbow is known for his parodies of show tunes and pop classics, and his work often carries a political message - although he has told The Advocate his primary goal is to make people laugh.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Stephen J. Lyons: Russian opposition leader exhibits bravery while Cruz and Hawley offer profiles in cowardice

The most courageous man in the world is locked up in a Moscow prison - his life in the balance.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Clarence Page: Jan. 6 hearings make great TV, but will it matter?

In the long-running talkfest known as the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, Attack on U.S. Capitol, we haven't seen too many made-for-TV moments.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Controversial Cop Body Cams, Pickathon Freshens Up, and Monkeypox... Not Just for the Gays!

GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY!It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week!
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