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Weekly News Digest
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May 23, 2024 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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CNET Reports on Global Tech Companies' AI Summit
Ian Sherr writes the following for CNET:World governments and leading tech companies … made a series of pledges at a summit in Seoul, South Korea, focused on artificial intelligence, promising investments in research, testing and safety. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Samsung were among the companies that made the voluntary, nonbinding commitments to steer AI away from working on bioweapons, disinformation or automated cyberattacks, according to statements from the summit and reporting from Reuters and AP. The companies also agreed to build a ‘kill switch’ into their AIs, effectively allowing them to shut down their systems in the case of a catastrophe. For more information, read the article.
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