LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they’re false

New research on so-called “negation neglect” finds that LLMs in a roughly analogous situation don’t behave that way. They ...
Reuters

International testing agency explores power data passport to sharpen anti-doping efforts

PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - Cycling's anti-doping authorities are working towards a possible 2028 launch of a "power data passport" that would use riders' performance files to help target testing and ...
CNBC

Trump admin moves further into AI oversight, will test Google, Microsoft and xAI models

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation announced agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and Elon Musk's xAI to evaluate their AI models before they are publicly available. CAISI will "conduct ...
Gizmodo

Ambitious Experiment Aims to Test Tiny Nuclear Reactors for AI Data Centers

As if the U.S. grids weren’t stressed enough, AI data centers threaten to overwhelm them further with their massive energy demands. To address these challenges, researchers in Utah are entertaining ...
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Futures put on hold amid investigation into Detroit Training Center

Police body-camera video released in connection with the drunken-driving case against a Warren judge shows his arrest after officers say he rear-ended a SMART bus, and a breathalyzer test showed his ...
TechCrunch

Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models

Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the mouse movements and keystrokes of its own staff in its pursuit to build ...
The New York Times

New PEPFAR Data Show Worrying Declines in Testing and Treatment for H.I.V.

The numbers are the first to quantify the effect of the Trump administration’s shutdown and restarting of a program that has saved millions of lives worldwide. By Apoorva Mandavilli The United ...
Forbes

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. When Shanna Johnson was winding ...
TechSpot

GitHub Copilot will use your data for AI training by default, but you can opt out

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.
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Integrating Data and Computing into K-12 Education Is Critical and Requires Coordinated Approach To Be Effective, Says New Report

WASHINGTON — While computing and data shape nearly every aspect of modern life, efforts to expand data and computing education in K-12 settings have grown rapidly but unevenly, says a new report from ...
Financial Planning

How data security and stress-testing can build AI trust

Blair duQuesnay, lead advisor at Ritholtz Wealth Management in New Orleans, right, interviews Azish Filabi, executive director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics in Financial Services at The ...