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European Lawmakers Pave the Way: Landmark Regulation Passed to Govern Artificial Intelligence

European lawmakers passed the world’s first significant regulation aimed at overseeing artificial intelligence (AI), a technology crucial in today’s tech investment landscape. The EU AI Act, introduced in 2021, categorizes AI into different risk levels, from "unacceptable" to high, medium, and low hazards, with corresponding regulatory measures. Expected to come into force in May after final checks and European Council endorsement, this landmark regulation sets a global precedent for AI governance. Despite achieving political consensus and parliamentary approval, the main challenge lies in effectively implementing these regulations, as emphasized by lawmaker Dragos Tudorache.

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One of the concerns around the AI models — the kind that underpin applications like ChatGPT — is that the data they are trained on could contain biases or misinformation.

One of the most anticipated and ambitious projects in this field of AI is Neuralink, a brain-computer interface company founded by Elon Musk, the visionary entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX. Neuralink aims to create a wireless device that can be implanted in the brain and connect it to a computer or a smartphone, allowing users to control devices, access information, and communicate with others just by thinking. Imagine controlling prosthetic limbs or enhancing cognitive abilities just by thinking.

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Stillwater, Minnesota is hosting the third annual World Snow Sculpting Championship with artists from eight countries.

The event, sanctioned by the Association Internationale de Sculpture sur Neige et Glace based in Finland, will feature world-class snow sculpting teams from Turkey, Finland, France, Wales, Canada, Mexico, Ecuador, and the U.S. competing to create the most compelling snow sculptures.

“We are thrilled to be hosting this event again in its third year, and to be bringing the beauty and excitement of snow sculpting to Stillwater,” said Robin Anthony, President of the Greater Stillwater Chamber of Commerce and Co-Director of the World Snow Sculpting Championship.

Read more here: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/third-annual-world-snow-sculpting-championship-in-stillwater/

China Great Wall

For centuries, soldiers stood guard along the Great Wall of China, defending the heartland of the North China Plain from nomadic invaders like the Huns, and the ancestors of the Mongols.

Now, a new kind of protector stands stalwart on the wall, even as the unfinished parts of the great monument crumble away: biological soil crusts.

These mixes of lichen, moss, and cyanobacteria form a crusty surface atop loose soil, and play a major role in arid ecosystems, but in Northern China, they are protecting sections of the wall from wind and water erosion.

Read more here: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/protecting-the-great-wall-of-china-from-erosion-lichen-soil-crust-shields-monument-from-weather-damage/

As is so often the case, the surpassing of a billion in personal net worth acts as the catalyst for charitable donations of land and capital, and Guy Laliberté is the most recent to follow the path of Rockefeller.

The founder of Cirque du Soleil, Laliberté is donating all the money required for his hometown to protect a large piece of natural riparian woodland and wetlands that sits adjacent to it.

A suburb of Montreal on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville received $5 million from Mr. Laliberté, their most famous resident, for the purchase.

reed more here: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/the-billionaire-and-founder-of-cirque-du-soleil-guy-laliberte-is-donating-a-5-million-piece-of-land-to-his-city/