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Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly being used in financial services — but they come with some serious risks around discrimination. Sadik Demiroz | Photodisc | Getty Images AMSTERDAM — Artificial intelligence has a racial bias problem. From biometric identification systems that disproportionately misidentify the faces of Black people and minorities, to applications of voice recognition
In this article BABA BABA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CEO of Alibaba Group Daniel Zhang Yong delivers speech at Hangzhou International Expo Centre on May 31, 2018 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. Wei Zhiyang/Zhejiang Daily Press Group | Visual China Group | Getty Images Outgoing Alibaba CEO and Chairman Daniel Zhang sent
Singapore’s Marina Bay waterfront. Nicky Loh | Bloomberg | Getty Images As governments deliberate on whether artificial intelligence poses risks or dangers and whether it needs regulating, Singapore is taking more of a wait-and-see approach. “We are currently not looking at regulating AI,” Lee Wan Sie, director for trusted AI and data at Singapore’s Infocomm
In this article PLTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. On Sunday, the Ohio Department of Health reported a total of 298,096 cases in Ohio since the pandemic began, leading to 5,722 deaths and 22,265 hospitalizations. Photographer: Dustin Franz/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg
In this article ETL-FR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT PARIS — Eutelsat is one of the biggest satellite companies in the world, but has faced declining revenue in its traditional businesses at a time when it is handling a huge acquisition and facing disruption from billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Eutelsat CEO Eva
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks with CNBC on May 16th, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Twitter suspended the accounts of Plainsite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prolific Tesla and Elon Musk critic, on Tuesday afternoon. Plainsite is an online database that makes state and federal court filings and other public records available
In this article ATVI Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Activision Blizzard’s new Diablo video game broke $666 million in global sales in the span of five days, the company said Wednesday. Diablo IV, which launched June 6, has become Activision subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment’s fastest-selling game ever, the