BREAKING NEWS: The measure, SB 1047, would have held companies legally liable for harms caused by AI and even enabled a "kill switch" if systems went rogue.
The measure, known as SB 1047, was one of the nation’s most far-reaching regulations on the booming AI industry. It divided Silicon Valley over the balance between artificial intelligence safety and tech innovation.
When Jeff Flake was in the Senate he was one of the 2 or 3 most conservative members. This is quite something.
I've mentioned before that whooping cough was the sickest I've ever been. At 23. I'm you can't breath after coughing jags for 5-10 seconds or more. I have myself black eyes coughing. Burst blood vessels in both eyes. You don't want it. You SUPER don't want kids or infants to get it.
Antivaxxerism is on the rise. So is whooping cough. Over the past decade, there's been a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases: measles, mumps &now pertussis—whooping cough. Pertussis was once on the brink of elimination. Now it's rebounding thanks to wackos www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Clear and respectful communication is key to preventing outbreaks like this
So this is paywalled ; but, I’m betting “officials” are wary of letting go of that sweet, sweet drug-war money is the real headline here.
Some heavy duty supply chain risk in Helene:
I always thought the mines in Spruce Pine, NC made kitchen countertops. TIL they made the Palomar Observatory, and pretty much every modern computer chip:
The processor that makes your laptop or cell phone work was fabricated using quartz from this obscure Appalachian backwater.
I can show you untold wonders like THE MIRACLE OF THE WOLVES, in which ladies annihilate the boys with hatchets, arrows and, well, wolves. But I can't get anywhere if all anyone wants to talk about is some Snidely Whiplash fantasy that was never really a mainstream thing in serious pictures.
When Trump first chose "America First" as his slogan American Historians were like "um, yeah, that seems kinda bad." Now that he's moved on to praising "the late great Charles Lindbergh" I think we can dispense with the qualifications.
I feel "Unearthed audio, JD Vance says..." has reached meme level.
CBS News Says It Will Be Up To Vance And Walz To Fact-Check Each Other In Veep Debate In other words, Vance will be allowed to spew a firehose of lies with no pushback from “moderators,” who won’t actually moderate anything because CBS is scared of the right wing reaction.
CBS News says it will be up to the candidates, not the moderators, to fact-check each other.