Google removes guidelines barring its AI from being used in surveillance and weapons: report

by Chris DeMunbrun | Feb 5, 2025 | AI News

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US Postal Service suspends packages from China and Hong Kong until further notice

by Chris DeMunbrun | Feb 5, 2025 | AI News

Postal Service will temporarily suspend only international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong Posts until further notice. The flow of letters and flats from China and Hong Kong will not be impacted. This is part of Trump’s tariff...

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons, surveillance

by Chris DeMunbrun | Feb 5, 2025 | AI News

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford’s 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google has removed a pledge to abstain from using AI for potentially harmful applications,...

Why OpenAI Says China’s DeepSeek Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

by Chris DeMunbrun | Feb 5, 2025 | AI News

The OpenAI ChatGPT logo. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Within the United States, San Francisco-based OpenAI, which released ChatGPT in 2022, is at the leading edge of AI technology. Until very recently the U.S. was seen as the clear global leader in...

Google owner Alphabet drops promise over ‘harmful’ AI uses

by Chris DeMunbrun | Feb 5, 2025 | AI News

Google drops pledge on AI use for weapons 35 minutes ago Lucy Hooker BBC Business reporter Getty Images Alphabet, the parent company of technology giant Google, is no longer promising that it will never use artificial intelligence (AI) for purposes such as developing...