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In charts: How AI companies' data hunt is sparking copyright wars
2 weeks, 1 day ago

In charts: How AI companies' data hunt is sparking copyright wars

Live Mint  

Last month, news agency ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, alleging unauthorized use of its content to train the generative artificial intelligence chatbot. AI companies, however, largely argue that their language models are built on publicly available data, which they contend is protected under fair use policy. Read this | OpenAI vs ANI: Why ‘hallucinations’ are …

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How technology, data, and marketing-tech is becoming even more desirable
2 months, 4 weeks ago

How technology, data, and marketing-tech is becoming even more desirable

The Independent  

In recent years, the business landscape has undergone a huge transformation driven by the acceleration of technology and the increasing importance of data-driven decision-making. Encompassing a broad range of skills, including digital marketing, marketing automation, customer relationship management, and data analytics, martech has seen vast investment too. This shift towards technological marketing not only enhances efficiency but also drives better …

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AI regulation is coming. Fortune 500 companies are bracing for impact.
3 months, 3 weeks ago

AI regulation is coming. Fortune 500 companies are bracing for impact.

Live Mint  

The state of artificial intelligence regulation in the U.S., or the lack of it, is a pressing matter for Fortune 500 companies as they launch AI projects. For Motorola Solutions, complying with existing and new AI and data usage laws may be “onerous and expensive," and inconsistencies in regulation from jurisdiction to jurisdiction could increase costs and liability, the communications …

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More than half of the companies use data for decision-making
4 months ago

More than half of the companies use data for decision-making

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: Around 54 per cent of Indian organizations across different sectors report being data-driven in their decision-making, finds a research by Capgemini. Further, 55 per cent of Indian organizations surveyed were able to introduce new business models in 2024 by harnessing activated data. 63 per cent of Indian organizations surveyed can easily store, retrieve, and analyse data across their value …

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Texas electricity demand could nearly double in six years, grid operator predicts
6 months ago

Texas electricity demand could nearly double in six years, grid operator predicts

Associated Press  

The state’s main electric grid operator has sharply increased its prediction for how much power demand will increase in coming years. The new estimates raise crucial questions, such as whether large power users that can ramp up and down need greater state oversight, the committee’s chair, state Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, said in an interview. “But I think the most …

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Activists seek SC-monitored probe into electoral bonds
9 months ago

Activists seek SC-monitored probe into electoral bonds

The Hindu  

A day after the entire data on electoral bonds were made public, activists and petitioners said on Friday that an independent Special Investigation Team should be formed to probe all aspects of the now-scrapped scheme. Claiming that electoral bonds had emerged as the biggest scam of Independent India, lawyer Prashant Bhushan said at a press conference: “There were no money …

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Govt Rejects EU FTA's 'Data Exclusivity' Ask To Protect Generic Drug Companies' Interest
10 months, 1 week ago

Govt Rejects EU FTA's 'Data Exclusivity' Ask To Protect Generic Drug Companies' Interest

ABP News  

The government announced on Thursday that it has decided to reject the demand from the four European nations in the European Free Trade Association bloc to include a 'data exclusivity' provision in proposed Free Trade Agreements. Commerce Secretary Sunil Barthwal stated that India will not enter into any FTA that compromises the interests of the generic drug industry. In fact, …

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Alert first, act fast: Diktat on data breaches soon
11 months, 1 week ago

Alert first, act fast: Diktat on data breaches soon

Live Mint  

Organizations that notice breaches of personal data may have to immediately alert users and flag them to the Data Protection Board, followed by a detailed filing within 72 hours. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, India’s first law on data protection, took effect in August, and upcoming rules under the Act will lay the ground for compliance by technology companies. …

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US seizes more illegal e-cigarettes, but thousands of new ones are launching
11 months, 3 weeks ago

US seizes more illegal e-cigarettes, but thousands of new ones are launching

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Federal officials are seizing more shipments of unauthorized electronic cigarettes at U.S. ports, but thousands of new flavored products continue pouring into the country from China, according to government and industry data reviewed by The Associated Press. “FDA whacks one product and then the manufacturers get around it and the kids get around it,” said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a …

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AI a worryingly insatiable guzzler of water
1 year ago

AI a worryingly insatiable guzzler of water

China Daily  

Google's 2023 environmental report shows that the company's water consumption increased by 20 percent year-on-year last year, reaching 5.6 billion gallons, which is equivalent to one-fourth of the world's daily water consumption. The resource consumption cost of the artificial intelligence technology revolution attracted widespread attention, as the water consumption required for cooling large data models far exceeds people's imagination. In …

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Google is now warning its employees how they use chatbots including Bard
1 year, 6 months ago

Google is now warning its employees how they use chatbots including Bard

India Today  

Alphabet Inc is cautioning employees about how they use chatbots, including its own Bard, at the same time as it markets the program around the world, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Google told Reuters it has had detailed conversations with Ireland's Data Protection Commission and is addressing regulators' questions, after a Politico report Tuesday that the company …

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The industry more damaging to the environment than airlines
1 year, 6 months ago

The industry more damaging to the environment than airlines

The Telegraph  

In the insurance industry, for example, data accounts for as much as 30pc of its total carbon emissions, says von Bieberstein. “And they do this on an individual level – for your car insurance, for your health insurance – all the way up to companies and countries.” But while tech’s emissions pose a bigger problem than the airline industry, it …

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Nation to witness quick AI expansion, experts say
1 year, 8 months ago

Nation to witness quick AI expansion, experts say

China Daily  

Tech heavyweights step up development efforts as concerns voiced over new problems Artificial intelligence technology is expected to witness speedy growth in China and inject fresh momentum into a new round of industrial development, experts said. Pan Helin, co-director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center at Zhejiang University's International Business School, said, "Compared with its foreign counterparts, …

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10 Important Data Protection Practices To Keep In Mind For A Startup In India
1 year, 9 months ago

10 Important Data Protection Practices To Keep In Mind For A Startup In India

Live Law  

Recent years have seen a digital boom worldwide resulting in the explosion of digital data collection and distribution. In this regard, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 has been proposed which will ensure fair use and disposal of digital personal data collected online and offline in India and also outside India by companies offering goods and services to individuals …

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Ad spending on Twitter falls by over 70% in December 2022
1 year, 11 months ago

Ad spending on Twitter falls by over 70% in December 2022

The Hindu  

Advertising spending on Twitter Inc. dropped by 71% in December, data from an advertising research firm showed, as top advertisers slashed their spending on the social-media platform after Elon Musk's takeover. Most of the companies had stopped spending in November, estimates by another research firm Pathmatics showed, the same month that Musk restored suspended accounts and released a paid account …

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Cyberinsurance has been around for 25 years. It’s still a bit of a mess.
2 years, 3 months ago

Cyberinsurance has been around for 25 years. It’s still a bit of a mess.

Slate  

This essay is excerpted from Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks. This involvement in auditing and monitoring insurance customers’ security systems would, by necessity, dissipate in the later years of cyberinsurance sales, as the volume of customers grew and so too did the number of firms selling policies—many of which did …

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The Rise Of Edtech: Why We Need To Regulate?
2 years, 4 months ago

The Rise Of Edtech: Why We Need To Regulate?

Live Law  

Given the circumstances of virtuality after COVID-19, one industry that has seen considerable growth and investment has been that of the EdTech companies. India serves a great market for these companies and start-ups, according to the data provided by IBEF, "the Indian EdTech industry was valued at US$ 750 million in 2020 and is expected to reach US$ 4 billion …

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Google, MapMyIndia announce 3D maps for Indian cities
2 years, 4 months ago

Google, MapMyIndia announce 3D maps for Indian cities

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI :Google launched its Google Street View mapping product in India on Wednesday, capitalizing on the government’s new geospatial policy. Shortly after Google’s announcement, homegrown MapMyIndia, unveiled a product called Real View Maps, which provides “360-degree panoramic street view" and also includes a 3D Metaverse Maps Service. Though India is one of the top markets for Google Maps, its …

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China was seen as a gold mine for Western tech companies but now they are leaving there empty-handed
2 years, 5 months ago

China was seen as a gold mine for Western tech companies but now they are leaving there empty-handed

ABC  

For years, the US business community has fixated on a quote from Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, on the future of China's market. New wave of Western tech brands leaving China In May, Airbnb's co-founder and China chair, Nathan Biecharczyk, told Chinese consumers on WeChat that the company would shut down its domestic businesses on July 30 …

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School Surveillance Will Never Protect Kids From Shootings
2 years, 5 months ago

School Surveillance Will Never Protect Kids From Shootings

Wired  

If we are to believe the purveyors of school surveillance systems, K-12 schools will soon operate in a manner akin to some agglomeration of Minority Report, Person of Interest, and Robocop. “Military grade” systems would slurp up student data, picking up on the mere hint of harmful ideations, and dispatch officers before the would-be perpetrators could carry out their vile …

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Chip Shortages Result in Record Wire Fraud Reports by Desperate Buyers
2 years, 5 months ago

Chip Shortages Result in Record Wire Fraud Reports by Desperate Buyers

News 18  

WASHINGTON D.C: A severe semiconductor shortage has resulted in record wire fraud cases last year reported by desperate buyers, a company that tracks counterfeit and fraud in the chip industry said on Tuesday. ERAI Inc said in 2021 there were 101 wire fraud cases reported to the U.S.-based firm, up from 70 in 2020 and 17 five years ago. Companies …

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How technology has created new avenues for digital financial inclusion
2 years, 8 months ago

How technology has created new avenues for digital financial inclusion

Firstpost  

The number of active internet users in India is expected to increase by 45 per cent in the next five years and touch 900 million by 2025 from around 622 million in 2020 Financial inclusion is one of the key drivers of economic growth. With an exponential increase in mobile and internet usage and a relatively faster rate of technology …

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Digital extortion gang Lapsus$ hacks data of large tech companies: Microsoft
2 years, 9 months ago

Digital extortion gang Lapsus$ hacks data of large tech companies: Microsoft

Live Mint  

A digital extortion gang Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for a string of compromises against some of the world’s largest technology companies including Okta, Nvidia, Samsung, Microsoft The group said in a series of public posts on the messaging app Telegram this week that it had accessed Okta Inc., the San Francisco-based identity-management firm that provides authentication tools for an array …

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The Unnerving Rise of Video Games that Spy on You
2 years, 10 months ago

The Unnerving Rise of Video Games that Spy on You

Wired  

Tech conglomerate Tencent caused a stir last year with the announcement that it would comply with China’s directive to incorporate facial recognition technology into its games in the country. The move was in line with China’s strict gaming regulation policies, which impose limits on how much time minors can spend playing video games—an effort to curb addictive behavior, since gaming …

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