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Federal court blocks Texas law banning ‘viewpoint discrimination’ on social media

The Verge

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that aimed to limit large social platforms’ ability to moderate content on the grounds that it is likely to violate the First Amendment. The law’s disclosure rules are “inordinately burdensome given the unfathomably large numbers of posts on these sites and apps,” the order says.

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Daily Crunch: PayPal Ventures leads $50M Series B for Egyptian fintech Paymob

TechCrunch

I fought the law and … well, the jury is still out, actually : Swedish startup PocketLaw — a contract automation software-as-a-service legal tech platform that is mainly focused on SMEs — has pocketed $11 million in Series A funding to fuel expansion in Europe. And it raised $68 million to get deeper into the science. Like all this car talk?

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CASE STUDY: Marine Conservation Group Wins Victory with Care2 - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

The Marine Fish Conservation Network (MFCN), a coalition of over 190 organizations dedicated to ocean conservation, wanted to educate members of Congress and ask them to reject proposals that might do irreparable harm to several fish species.

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Pre-training generalist agents using offline reinforcement learning

Google Research AI blog

Scaled Q-learning: Multi-task pre-training with conservative Q-learning To provide a general-purpose pre-training approach, offline RL needs to be scalable, allowing us to pre-train on data across different tasks and utilize expressive neural network models to acquire powerful pre-trained backbones, specialized to individual downstream tasks.

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Saving the California Condor: A Collective Impact Story

ASU Lodestar Center

Meanwhile, the condor’s habitat was improved due to work done by government agencies and environmental groups to protect ranging lands and enact laws against lead bullets. An ornithologist and manager at the San Diego Zoo, he was involved in the conservation effort for many years and was a proponent of captive breeding. Get another!

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Care2 Petition Helps Prevent National Park Service Changes - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

In response , more than 50,000 people commented on the proposed changes in the management style of the National Park Service, including a petition from Care2 and The Wilderness Society that was signed by over 11,000 people. These outcries put an end to the possibility of any radical changes.

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How to Contribute to Theoretical Reward Learning Research

The AI Alignment Forum

Can we create some special conservative optimisation methods that yield provable guarantees? For example, much of the existing work on conservative optimisation makes no particular assumptions about how the reward function is misspecified. This then raises the question of how we should optimise reward functions, in light of this fact.