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MIT Technology Review - AI
- A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
2025-07-18
Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found. Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were found in a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a major AI training set for image generation scraped from… - The Download: how to run an LLM, and a history of “three-parent babies”
2025-07-18
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to run an LLM on your laptop In the early days of large language models, there was a high barrier to entry: it used to be impossible to run anything useful on… - A brief history of “three-parent babies”
2025-07-18
This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that involves DNA from three people. The approach was used to prevent women with genetic mutations from passing mitochondrial diseases to their children. You can read all about the results, and the reception to them, here. …
TechCrunch - Artificial Intelligence
- Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers
2025-06-04
American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs -- a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon. - Breakneck data center growth challenges Microsoft’s sustainability goals
2025-06-02
Microsoft's sustainability goals are imperiled by its push into AI and cloud services. - Gridcare thinks more than 100 GW of data center capacity is hiding in the grid
2025-05-27
Gridcare raised $13.3 million for its data platform that finds underutilized capacity on the electrical grid.