EU lawmakers have reached a deal over the AI Act, the world’s first sweeping AI law, which aims to mitigate harm in areas where using AI poses the biggest risk to our rights. Meanwhile, a new study shows that brain organoids, clumps of human brain cells grown in a dish, can be hooked up to an electronic chip and carry out simple computational tasks, including some rudimentary speech recognition. This could potentially overcome some challenges of silicon-based computers and usher in a new age of biocomputing.
Key takeaways:
- Google has lost its antitrust trial, with the jury unanimously deciding that Google's Play app store is a monopoly. The judge will now decide the appropriate remedies Google should face.
- EU lawmakers have reached a deal over the AI Act, which will be the world's first sweeping AI law. The law is designed to mitigate harm in areas where using AI poses the biggest risk to our rights and ban uses that pose an "unacceptable risk."
- Chinese dissident Xu Wanping and five other former political prisoners are suing Yahoo for providing information on certain email accounts to Chinese law enforcement, which led to their arrest and imprisonment.
- A new study shows that brain organoids, clumps of human brain cells grown in a dish, can be hooked up to an electronic chip and carry out simple computational tasks, including some rudimentary speech recognition.