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The Italian watchdog, known as Garante - one of the European Unions most proactive in assessing AI platform compliance with the blocs data privacy regime - last year briefly banned ChatGPT over the alleged breach of EU privacy rules.

With nearly 10,000 drivers already on board, Namma Yatri plans to add 1 lakh drivers in the next 6 months in Chennai. It also plans to expand to other cities in the state.

The programme, which received little attention after it was announced on a Pentagon website in October, is part of Washingtons broader efforts to jumpstart US production of critical minerals used in weapons manufacturing and the energy transition.

Problems of racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train large language models like ChatGPT have drawn attention. However, these issues also arise in social robots, a subfield of robotics called socially assistive robotics. These robots, designed to interact with diverse groups of people, are already being utilized to help individuals with autism, special needs children, and stroke patients.

Researchers have developed a predictive model using tweets from 2009-2021 to detect extremist users and content related to ISIS. The model can help social media companies identify and restrict such accounts. The study used AI techniques, including machine learning and natural language processing, to differentiate users sharing ISIS-related content. The researchers also developed an image classifier to identify the most frequent categories of images attached to ISIS-related tweets.

Netflix expresses concerns about generative AI in its annual report, stating that it could negatively impact its operations and ability to compete. The company warns that the use of generative AI by competitors may give them an advantage and result in intellectual property claims. The availability of copyright protection for AI-generated material is uncertain. Generative AI has already been used in the production of the film Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) recently brainstormed with nearly 15 domain experts from EY to PwC to stay in step with sweeping technology shifts and plan future public service delivery models using AI.

Binny Bansal has resigned from the board of Flipkart which he cofounded in 2007 with Sachin Bansal, sources said. Bansal, who is now based in Singapore, told the board about his resignation earlier this week, citing a conflict with his new venture OppDoor in the ecommerce sector.

Swifts ardent fanbase of "Swifties" quickly mobilised, launching a counteroffensive on the platform formerly known as Twitter and a #ProtectTaylorSwift hashtag to flood it with more positive images of the pop star. Some said they were reporting accounts that were sharing the deepfakes.

This month, Elon Musk, who has since bought Twitter and rebranded it X, echoed several of Trumps claims about the U.S. voting system, putting forth distorted and false notions that American elections were wide-open for fraud and illegal voting by noncitizens. This time, there were no fact checks. And the X algorithm -- under Musks direct control -- helped the posts reach large audiences, in some cases drawing many millions of views.