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The companies with the most powerful AI models, such as GPT-4 and Gemini, will face more onerous requirements, such as having to perform model evaluations and risk-assessments and mitigations, ensure cybersecurity protection, and report any incidents where the AI system failed. Companies that fail to comply will face huge fines or their products could be banned from the EU.  It’s also worth noting that free open-source AI models that share every detail of how the model was built, including the model’s architecture,…

K-pop band Tomorrow X Together announced on Tuesday that they’ll be embarking on a U.S. leg of their Act: Promise tour this spring. The trek, which launches in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, on May 3, promises to be “grander” than its 2023 predecessor Act: Sweet Mirage. The U.S. portion of their world tour kicks off May 14 in Tacoma, Washington, and features 11 total shows across eight cities including Oakland, Los Angeles, Houston, and New York. According to a press release, Act: Promise “embodies the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ten years ago, the United States passed into federal law the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), broadening the mandate of state vocational rehabilitation agencies to facilitate successful school-to-work transitions for student populations. Among its many provisions, the measure provided an unparalleled opportunity to expand the scope of available experiences and training to help…

‘Who prefers our earlier work?” Yard Act frontman James Smith asks the audience, and it’s a question you get the sense he has been asking himself of late too. A crowd member is brought up on stage to spin a wheel, offering a one-time-only chance to hear a randomly selected song from the band’s 2021 debut EP Dark Days. It lands on the title track and the band dutifully bash out the kind of jagged post-punk that led to their rapid ascent during lockdown.Three years on, with the band seemingly feeling restricted by their own…

“Norwich! We wanna consume you! Do you wanna consume us?” drawls singer James Smith with a grin on the first night of Yard Act’s latest UK tour. It’s a very Yard Act thing to do, drawing the audience’s attention to the transactional nature of gig-going; of band as product, of paying your money to jump around on a Wednesday night. Smith may also be hinting at the carnivorous aspects of fandom, the parasocial nature of the exchange that has always existed but feels even more acute in the internet age, where bands can…

The EU has officially adopted the AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive rulebook for artificial intelligence. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) overwhelmingly endorsed the regulation on Wednesday. The law passed with 523 votes in favour, 46 against, and 49 abstentions. “Europe is NOW a global standard-setter in AI,” Thierry Breton, the bloc’s commissioner for the internal market, wrote on X. Breton’s claim was echoed across the tech world — although not always with praise. Supporters…

The Star Wars Collection is on sale for only $19.49 at Fanatical until tomorrow, March 12 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET. This bundle contains 14 games from the Star Wars franchise, all of which will unlock immediately after purchase as Steam keys. Essentially, you're only paying $1.39 for each game--and the Star Wars Collection features a few of the very best Star Wars games. This offer is one of the latest flash deals in Fanatical's massive Spring Sale. As an added bonus, you'll get a free bonus game…

Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, speaking on a panel this afternoon at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The panel focused on the “healthcare crisis in Post-Roe America” and featured women who had both sued and spoken out about the need to have doctors, not politicians,…

As the world's biggest tech companies revamp their core online services to comply with the European Union's landmark Digital Markets Act, the changes could give some smaller rivals and even peers a competitive edge.The DMA is Europe's attempt to rein in Alphabet's Google, Amazon, Apple, TikTok owner ByteDance, Meta Platforms and Microsoft and create a level playing field for smaller rivals and ultimately more competition for Europeans.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

A novel written by the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez in the last years of his life has been published – against his instruction that it be destroyed. Until August, written when the author had dementia, comes a decade after his death, on what would have been his 97th birthday. It has been described by his sons as “the fruits of one last effort to carry on creating against all odds”, and tells the story of a woman who makes a yearly pilgrimage to her mother’s grave on a Caribbean island, a trip that…