
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Paul Atkins to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to crypto outlet Unchained. Assuming Atkins accepts the offer, crypto enthusiasts would have plenty of reason to rejoice.
Atkins may not be as familiar a name to the general public as his predecessor,

Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced a new family of foundation models called Nova to power generative AI applications at its re:Invent 2024 conference on Tuesday.
Amazon is rolling out four Nova models in total: Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier. Each have their own capabilities and sizes. Amazon also introduced a new image generation model, called Nova Canvas; and a video-generation model, Nova Reel.

China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony, and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at U.S. limits on semiconductor-related exports.
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The sale of Americans’ private information by “data brokers” to scammers, foreign adversaries, abusive domestic partners and other unscrupulous actors could face stringent new proposed regulations, the top U.S. consumer agency for financial protect

Lawyers tend to be the butt of jokes about not being human, so perhaps it’s no surprise that AI has been widely embraced in the legal world. Is it going to replace lawyers? Not yet, but AI is automating a lot of the backroom and behind the scenes work of lawyers, from receptions to research and redlining contracts.
Here are 10 tips for lawyers who want to use AI.
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When the celebrity personalized video platform Cameo first launched in 2017, not just anyone could sell custom videos to fans on the platform.
Cameo staff recruited some celebs to the platforms, and existing Cameo video creators were allowed to invite others they thought were successful. And while potential video creators could apply, they generally had to have achieved a certain level of genuine fame—or at least something in the range of 25,000

Noam Shazeer, one of the inventors of the transformer models that caused the current AI boom, is now leading the charge at Google toward artificial general intelligence (that is, AI that’s generally smarter than human beings). Initially, Google was less aggressive than its peers when it came to and releasing generative AI to the world. But the company finally appears t

LinkedIn is covered in unreadable corporate garble. AI could be to blame.
A new study by AI detection startup Originality AI reveals just how thoroughly AI-assisted content has invaded LinkedIn’s feed. According to the study (which was first shared with Wired), more than half of long-length, English-language LinkedIn posts sho

In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, one TikTok content creator is suing another for copying her “neutral, beige, and cream aesthetic.” After a judge ruled the case should go forward last month, the matter now goes to U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas for final disposition.

ChatGPT users are getting error codes every time they type the name “David Mayer” into the generative AI chatbot, leaving many confounded on who it could be and why the platform isn’t recognizing the name.
A Reddit user who posted to the “r/ChatGPT” subreddit six days ago appeared to be the first to notice that ChatGPT wouldn’t (or couldn’t?) generate a response to the name. The user asked “who is david mayer?” The chatbot said