European Union countries have reached an agreement on draft AI rules that propose to classify and regulate high-risk AI systems. EU lawmakers and countries still need to further negotiate the proposed law, which could take effect sometime in 2024. More: - Under the current draft, EU nations agreed to ban so-called "social scoring systems" that gather data on citizens to apply ratings.
- They also settled on a proposal to allow police to utilize biometric identification technologies in public places "when strictly necessary," according to Reuters.
- Critics noted that the draft still does not address the issue of facial recognition use in public spots.
- "High-risk" AI technologies that would face increased regulation include algorithms used for risk assessment, health, and life insurance pricing, as well as AI used to evaluate creditworthiness and insurance premiums.
- The rules, which exclude AI uses for military and defense purposes, were first proposed by the European Commission in 2021.
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The creator of the popular Lensa AI app says people using its latest feature to produce NSFW images are violating its terms of use, TechCrunch reported. The app recently unveiled a "magic avatars" feature that uses the open-source Stable Diffusion model to generate digital art representations of photos. More: - The feature recently pushed Lensa's app, unveiled in 2018, to the top spot on Apple's App Store in the free category for iPhone apps.
- However, TechCrunch recently found that the AI avatar feature is capable of producing NSFW images of people without their consent.
- The CEO of Prisma Lab, Lensa's creator, reached out to TechCrunch, saying that the AI must be intentionally prompted to create the NSFW content.
- "The images are the result of intentional misconduct on the app," said CEO and co-founder Andrey Usoltsev, adding that wide generation and use of the content could lead to legal actions in the U.S. and U.K.
- He noted that Stability AI, the creator of the Stable Diffusion model, trained that program on a large set of unfiltered data scraped from the internet, introducing the model to the "biases of humankind."
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Defense tech startup Anduril Industries Inc., a developer of AI drone-defense technology, received fresh funding of $1.48B, raising its valuation to $8.48B. The Costa Mesa, California-based startup was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, who sold his virtual reality firm Oculus to Meta in 2014. More: - Anduril's Series E funding round was led by Valor Equity Partners, with participation from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, 8VC, Lux Capital, Thrive Capital, and others.
- The startup is known for its AI and ML-enhanced hardware and software that it sells to the defense industry, including the U.S. military.
- This includes underwater surveillance vehicles, anti-drone technology, and autonomous air systems.
- Its Lattice counter-drone system uses AI-enabled sentry towers to detect "hostile" drones in airspace and deploys its own drones to fight back. The autonomous technology relies on computer vision and machine learning.
- Last summer, the company announced a $450M funding round to help change U.S. warfighters and allies into "invincible technomancers" that use autonomous systems, according to Luckey.
- Anduril has raised more than $2B to date.
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Brain-chip company Neuralink is now under investigation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Inspector General Office for alleged violations involving animal welfare. The neurotechnology company, co-founded and owned by Elon Musk, has used animals during its testing process. More: - According to Reuters, an estimated 1,500 rats, mice, and other animals have been killed at Neuralink since 2018, including more than 280 sheep, pigs, and monkeys.
- Many of the deaths were attributed to errors made during the testing process caused by a hurried work environment, current and former employees said.
- Employees said they faced pressure under Musk, who expressed concerns about the company not moving fast enough.
- Last year, Neuralink installed a brain-computer interface into a monkey that enabled it to play video games with its mind. It recently demonstrated another monkey typing characters on a screen using a brain implant.
Zoom-out: - During a recent event, Musk said Neuralink hopes to begin human trials of its brain-computer interface within six months.
- The devices aim to allow people with debilitating conditions, such as ALS, to communicate using their thoughts.
- Musk also revealed two new products under development, which are a device intended to improve or restore human vision and an implant that goes into the human spinal cord.
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AI hardware company NeuReality brought in $35M in new funding for its AI inferencing solutions. The company, which has partnerships with AMD and IBM, is working on a system architecture to make AI processing more efficient and less costly. More: - AI inferencing is the deployment process after a neural network has been trained, when the model is capable of making predictions and delivering insights.
- NeuReality's Network Attached Processing Unit (NAPU) is designed for AI inference applications, such as natural language processing, computer vision, and recommendation engines.
- The system is designed to be deployed in data centers and near-edge on-premises locations.
- The technology is expected to improve upon deep learning use cases of inference by improving efficiencies and lowering power consumption and cost.
- The startup's Series A round, announced today, was led by Samsung Ventures, Cardumen Capital, Varana Capital, OurCrowd, and XT Hi-Tech.
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 |  | Beth is a writer and editor at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily technology news. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 and 1972 Fords. | |
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