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Boing Boing | January 20, 2020

Electric car maker Tesla said on Monday there was no unintended acceleration in its vehicles, as petition signature-gatherers demanding a federal safety investigation have claimed. On Friday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it would review the petition and released a redacted version that said “Tesla vehicles experience unintended acceleration at rates far exceeding other cars on the roads.” The petition urged the agency to recall all Tesla vehicles, t...

Venturebeat | June 18, 2020

Amazon has yet to adequately address questions about the dangers its facial recognition technology can pose to privacy and civil rights. Amazon plans to submit Rekognition for evaluation by the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards ...

CNBC | February 18, 2020

The meeting comes in the wake of the unveiling of new EU rules governing data and artificial intelligence (AI) - including facial recognition. Facebook is facing regulatory challenges with EU authorities, with increasing public scrutiny over their data prac...

AI TECH

Google | February 22, 2021

Google announced the release of Model Search, an open-source platform designed to help researchers develop ML models efficiently and automatically. Instead of focusing on a specific domain, Google’s Model Search is domain-agnostic, making it capable of finding a model architecture that fits a dataset and problem while minimizing coding time and compute resources. The success of an AI model often depends on how well it can perform across various workloads. But designing a mod...