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Four investors explain why AI ethics can’t be an afterthought

TechCrunch

We’re widening our lens, looking for more investors to participate in TechCrunch surveys , where we poll top professionals about challenges in their industry. Government policies are also taking aim at AI: The EU has passed machine learning laws , and the U.S. How would the U.S.

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Federal agencies use facial recognition from private companies, but almost nobody is keeping track

The Verge

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has revealed near-total lack of accountability from federal agencies using facial recognition built by private companies, like Clearview AI. But after an internal poll, the unnamed agency learned that employees had run such facial recognition searches more than 1,000 times.

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Samsung billionaire heir Jay Y. Lee gets parole, will be released from prison Friday

The Verge

That public opinion includes recent polls that show South Koreans mostly favored Lee’s release from prison, as did business leaders and members of President Moon Jae-in’s government, the Associated Press reported. Moon has not commented on Lee’s release, but his office has said such a decision would be up to the justice ministry.

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Judge’s refusal to let Elon Musk out of his SEC settlement notes the limits of his right to free speech

The Verge

One of the things Musk wanted — but didn’t get — was for the court to stop a subpoena from the SEC for information to determine if a tweet last fall with a poll about selling 10 percent of his stock had been vetted first, per the consent agreement he is under.

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Israel’s political crisis has activated its apolitical tech industry — and there’s no turning back

TechCrunch

As unease spread amongst a handful of entrepreneurs, alarmed at radical “reforms,” proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, to the independence of the judiciary, WhatsApp groups were fired up, and were quickly flooded with volunteers from the tech industry. But the delay looks like being only temporary.

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Elon Musk tells a judge the SEC’s ‘endless’ investigation is stifling his free speech

The Verge

Musk and Tesla for unrelenting investigation largely because Mr. Musk remains an outspoken critic of the government,” the letter states, “the SEC’s outsized efforts seem calculated to chill his exercise of First Amendment rights rather than to enforce generally applicable laws in evenhanded fashion.”.

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Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter: here’s everything you need to know

The Verge

Musk immediately set about soliciting suggestions about ways to improve Twitter by — what else — tweeting a poll. Musk has a tendency to shoot from the hip, but several corporate governance experts told us they doubt he actually thought this whole thing out. At first, he said yes. Then he changed his mind and said no.

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