The UN General Assembly will turn its attention to artificial intelligence on Thursday, weighing a resolution that lays out the potentially transformational technology's pros and cons while calling for the establishment of international standards.
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EU agrees first law combatting violence against women
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Meta wants industry-wide labels for AI-made images
Meta on Tuesday said it is working with other tech firms on standards that will let it better detect and label artificial intelligence-generated images shared with its billions of users. This will be done with companies Meta already works with on AI standards, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Midjourney and other firms involved in the fierce race to lead the nascent sector, Clegg said.
West Bank Palestinians 'exhausted' by omnipresent Israeli surveillance
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Plan for Europe's huge new particle collider takes shape
Europe's CERN laboratory revealed more details Monday about its plans for a huge new particle accelerator that would dwarf the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ramping up efforts to uncover the underlying secrets of the universe. Running under France and Switzerland, it would be more than triple the length of CERN's LHC, currently the largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
UK trial opens into bitcoin 'inventor' claims
The trial of Craig Wright began in London on Monday, seeking to determine whether the Australian computer scientist invented bitcoin, the world's most popular cryptocurrency. The enigmatic programmer describes himself as "Creator of Bitcoin" on social media platform X. "I conceived bitcoin, and I unveiled it to the world," he wrote last month in a posting on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Cascading light and 'wobbling' orbs at new Tokyo art museum
It's immersive, interactive and, of course, Instagrammable -- and now the digital art of Japanese collective teamLab, a major tourist draw, has a new home in the country's tallest skyscraper.
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