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U.S. Will Impose Restrictions on Investments in Sensitive Technologies in China

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, issued a presidential order directing the departments of Treasury and Commerce to formulate regulations that will impose limitations on American investments in technology companies and ventures in China, specifically those related to artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and semiconductors.

According to officials, the primary objective of Biden’s executive order is not to curtail ...

Google and OpenAI Were Hit with Lawsuits on the Use of AI

American Comedian Sarah Silverman and writers Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey are jointly suing OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, in a federal court in California. They assert that OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence research organization, infringed copyrights when it used copyrighted works to train its advanced language model, GPT. The lawsuit seeks class action certification.

According to the plaintiffs, OpenAI ...

The European Court of Human Rights Says Facial Recognition Violates Freedom of Expression and Privacy

The Israeli Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, will establish a governmental investigation commission to examine the Israeli police’s use of NSO’s Pegasus spyware. The committee will be headed by retired Judge Moshe Drori, who is recognized as a supporter of the Israeli government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary. Judge Drori will be joined by the former chief of public defenders, ...

Facebook Will Seek User Consent to Process Personal Data for Targeted Ads

Meta (formerly Facebook) announced that in the coming months, it will seek the consent of users in the European Economic Area and Switzerland to the use of their personal information for targeted advertising. Meta’s announcement follows judicial and regulatory decisions in Europe, which invalidated the company’s practice of relying on “legitimate interest” as the legal basis to justify processing personal ...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Finalizes Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules requiring that public companies disclose material cybersecurity incidents. The rules also require periodic disclosure of a public company’s cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance in annual reports.

According to the rules, new forms will require public companies to disclose any cybersecurity incident they determine to be material. The forms also seek ...

Artificial Intelligence Companies will Implement Safeguards in AI tools

Seven leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies based in the United States have agreed to voluntarily implement safeguards in AI development. The companies are Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Meta (formerly Facebook), Inflection, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Their announcement came after a meeting with President Biden at the White House, where the companies pledged to implement new measures for safety, security, and trust in ...

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