… Then came news that OpenAI had fired a safety executive — who had raised concerns about the launch of erotic content on ChatGPT — on grounds of sexual discrimination, and disbanded its mission alignment team. …
… Waymo recently admitted it occasionally uses remote workers in the Philippines, which led to questions on safety and security — questions that Chinese self-driving cars are also facing. …
… The focus on age checks diverts attention away from the more pressing concerns around social media platforms, Apar Gupta, founder-director of Internet Freedom Foundation, a digital rights organization in India, told Rest of World . “Effective child safety online doesn’t require identifying every in…
… Meanwhile, Chinese cloud providers have also made some inroads in the region, but they face limitations as Gulf states have prioritized high-stakes partnerships with U.S. tech firms due to the implications for national security, experts said. “Technology is a strategic sector for regional governmen… …
… Both systems will tap the country’s digital public infrastructure, including the Aadhaar citizen ID, the UPI payment gateway, the DigiLocker verification system, and the ONDC digital commerce platform. “It’s about decentralization and democratization of AI,” Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at… …
… Data centers, until recently, were treated as commercial assets rather than national security concerns. “A theoretical scenario has become a concrete precedent,” Kristian Alexander, a senior fellow at the Rabdan Security and Defence Institute in Abu Dhabi, told Rest of World . “This does not necess… …
… Users can choose not to support companies that ignore safety or exacerbate inequality . …
… Some states, including Coahuila, Chiapas, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Quintana Roo, Michoacán, Morelos, Sonora, and Tamaulipas, rejected our records requests, citing public security concerns and ongoing investigations into contracts that had been issued. …
… Businesses can insist on transparency about other tenants, including the military, but with demand for data center capacity outstripping supply, operators have the upper hand, as do militaries that can insist on access for national security purposes. …