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ICE just launched a $2.4M contract with a secretive data surveillance company that tracks you in real time — Newsweek

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has signed a $2.4 million contract with a little-known surveillance company that mines communications data and provides “real-time” tracking, writes Chantal Da Silva in Newsweek.

Here is the link: http://www.newsweek.com/ice-just-signed-24m-contract-secretive-data-surveillance-company-can-track-you-962493

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AI-controlled drone goes rogue, kills human operator in USAF simulated test — Vice

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California State Assembly votes to ban driverless trucks — FreightWaves

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OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight A.I. ‘hallucinations’ — CNBC

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The FDA will apparently let Elon Musk put a computer in a human’s brain — The Verge

Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink says it has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to launch its first in-human clinical study, writes Sean Hollister and Jay Peters.

Sam Altman says OpenAI will leave the EU if there’s any real AI regulation – Gizmodo

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