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As Early Midterm Voting Looms, a Glitch Delays 600,000 Texas Voter Registrations

Par : John Yoon
15 octobre 2026 à 05:05
Voting rights groups sued the Texas Department of Public Safety and the secretary of state over delayed voter registrations that overwhelmed local election workers.

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Because of a software glitch, the data of people who requested voter registration when they applied for driver’s licenses was not recorded.

OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis

14 octobre 2026 à 22:27
The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.

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The San Francisco offices of OpenAI. According to a court filing, a thumb-size recording device wrapped in toilet paper was found plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room.

In Age of Online Ads, Supreme Court Weighs Videotape-Era Privacy Law

14 octobre 2026 à 15:23
The justices will consider how the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 applies in the digital age of streaming videos, email newsletters and targeted advertisements.

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Judge Robert H. Bork during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1987.

Ransomware Attacks Have Swept Japan. A.I. May Be Making Them Easier.

13 octobre 2026 à 17:22
Critical infrastructure has been targeted in a wave of cyberattacks, which experts say are rising because of artificial intelligence.

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Japan has been hit by a wave of cyberattacks that have affected businesses and government.

OpenAI Says It Changed Systems After Australia Hacking

6 octobre 2026 à 04:58
A top executive was questioned by lawmakers about the breach of a government health care data portal, as the company has faced public outrage and questions of liability.

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The chief strategy officer for OpenAI, Jason Kwon, center, at the Parliament of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday.

Trump’s Voluntary A.I. Policing Echoes What Biden Did. But Is It Enough Today?

30 septembre 2026 à 21:29
President Trump’s plan to let A.I. companies police themselves comes amid mounting examples that they are failing to put safeguards on the technology.

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President Trump embraces Elon Musk while standing with other tech leaders outside the White House on Tuesday.

Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models

29 septembre 2026 à 09:55
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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“To be clear,” Christopher Olah told me, “we don’t know if A.I. models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain. The thing that I care about is that we get to the right answer, whatever it is.”

As A.I. Panic Grows, Javier Milei Is Pitching Argentina As a Rules-Free Haven

29 septembre 2026 à 05:03
Mr. Milei wants to go all in on artificial intelligence even as other leaders struggle to get a handle on a technology many fear poses existential threats.

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President Javier Milei at the United Nations last week where he asserted Argentina’s “commitment to not preemptively regulate A.I.”

Australia Investigates OpenAI Hack on Public Health Care Site

24 septembre 2026 à 01:32
Australia is exploring potential legal action after an artificial intelligence agent accessed nonpublic information on the country’s universal health care system.

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Australian ministers at a news conference in Sydney on Thursday after it was revealed an A.I. agent developed by OpenAI had infiltrated a government website in June.
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