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ACLU files first formal complaint over wrongful facial recognition arrest

The Verge

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a formal complaint against Detroit police over what it says is the first known example of a wrongful arrest caused by faulty facial recognition technology. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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How Hebbia is building AI for in-depth research

Fast Company Tech

For instance, if an investor asks a RAG-powered system whether a particular company looks like a good investment, the search process might surface parts of the business’s financial filings using that kind of language, like favorable quotes from the CEO, rather than conducting an in-depth analysis based on criteria for picking a stock.

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Macro raises $9.3 to layer intelligence on top of digital documents

TechCrunch

Jacob Beckerman, a former investment logic engineer at Bridgewater Associates, grew frustrated using standard document apps like Acrobat and Microsoft Office to print out and mark up documents. Using AI, the editor — called Macro — pulls out key terms, sections and equations to make documents interactive and hyperlinked.

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Business Canvas, a Korea-based document management SaaS company, closes $2.5M seed round

TechCrunch

Business Canvas , the South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5 The seed round will be used for accelerating product development and the global launch of an open beta for its AI-powered document management platform. These are primarily B2C users,” Kim told TechCrunch. “As

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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

TechCrunch

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). ” Can the law be copyrighted? Nine days after Judge Marrero’s ruling on May 27, however, the ICC filed another lawsuit against UpCodes and the Reynolds brothers.

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Leaked Uber Files reveal history of lawbreaking, lobbying and exploiting violence against drivers

TechCrunch

Thousands of leaked confidential files reveal a treasure trove of sketchy and unlawful behavior from Uber. The damning leak of more than 124,000 documents, now known as the Uber Files, spans a five-year period between 2013 and 2017. During that year, Macron worked with Uber to rewrite France’s laws governing its services.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The digital text can be accessed, but there is impaired access to the structure of the document. Textbooks in IDEA, the United States K-12 special education law The issue of TPMs is the biggest future-proofing question in the Treaty. In both cases, it’s about circumvention for accessibility, not circumvention for breaking the law.

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