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Colorado governor vetoes block on surveillance pricing as other states push for bans

Consumer advocates decry Democrat Jared Polis for ‘choosing to side with dominant corporations’ over workers

Colorado’s governor vetoed a bill on Tuesday that would have banned companies from using surveillance pricing to set workers’ wages and prices for consumer goods.

The measure would have been the strongest in the nation against algorithmic pricing. While Maryland became the first state to approve a law banning surveillance pricing in grocery stores in April, Colorado’s proposed measure was more expansive.

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After cooperation on SMILE mission, ESA and China chart parallel but separate paths

ESA and China recently launched the joint SMILE magnetosphere mission after a decade of cooperation, but despite similar goals, another collaboration appears distant.

The post After cooperation on SMILE mission, ESA and China chart parallel but separate paths appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Labour MP sues Elon Musk’s xAI company over fake sexualised images

Jess Asato was portrayed wearing a bikini in Grok-generated images after she criticised creation of such non-consensual pictures

A Labour MP has taken legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI company after saying its Grok tool helped a user produce fake sexualised pictures of her, part of a wave of such images that flooded the social media platform X earlier this year.

Jess Asato, the MP for Lowestoft, said in January that seeing herself portrayed by the AI tool as wearing a bikini without her consent was “violating”.

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Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK

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Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews and prevent it from being used for the "fine-tuning" of Google's AI models.

"In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews," the CMA announced. "This will put publishers, like news organizations, in a stronger position to negotiate co …

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Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released "to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure."

The order says the US AI industry has succeeded in part "because we refuse to stifle this innovation with overly burdensome regulation," but that it also recognizes new AI capabilities come with security risks. Accordingly, it directs several federal agencies to come up with a framework to "assess the advanced cyber capabilities of AI models" before they're releas …

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World War III and Coming Depression

The Federal Reserve has now stopped quantitative tightening (QT), and moved to credit creation, quantitative easing (QE) once again. This signals global expansion of war as the only hope against the desperate condition of global finances, leading to a great depression.

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Antichrist President Donald Trump Sees Himself as Jesus Christ

President Donald Trump portrayed himself on his own Truth Social platform as Jesus Christ, but as both a warmonger and a healer of the sick. In reality he is antichrist. Perhaps he was possessed of Lucifer on March 19th as expected by some Jewish rabbis as their Messiah.

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Missing the Mark Is Sin But Christians Have No Idea, Especially Their Leaders

Sin abounds in the world today and the majority of Christians do not recognise it. Satan is out in the world and his deceptions are in full sway over the nations especially the evangelicals in the US states supporting wars against innocent civilians who did nothing to America.

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Rabbi Elhanan Beck | “Netanyahu is Amalek”

Rabbi Elhanan Beck is a Jerusalem-born anti Zionist Jew who discusses with a Muslim reporter why he says that Netanyahu is Amalek. It is a discussion on Muslims and Jews peacefully coexisting in Palestine, the politics of the Zionist state and the religious beliefs of Torah Jews in regards to Israel.

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The Human Genome Has Been Contaminated With a Gene That Has Never Existed in the History of Humanity Causing Skyrocketing Cancer Rates

Dr. Daniel Nagase raises alarms about the dangers of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, from DNA contaminants that could permanently alter the human genome. The rising cancer rates among Australians is due to these mRNA injections which are part of a coordinated effort to use bioweapons for global depopulation.

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