Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works

Surveillance technology startup Flock announced a series of new policies and tools on Thursday, claiming they will help curb abuse of its automated license plate camera reader systems and help keep its law enforcement customers accountable. Flock is now recommending police departments retain data for seven days rather than the previous 30 days. Along with…

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Private plasma donation clinic says it is pausing all collection in Canada

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A for-profit plasma donation clinic says it has temporarily paused collection at all Canadian clinics amid “unfounded attention.” Grifols told Global News in a statement that the company voluntarily decided to pause collection and has communicated the decision to Health Canada. The announcement of the closure comes…

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The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI

OpenAI’s leaders are rallying workers to respond to one of the largest crises in the company’s history—which spans across its AI safety, cybersecurity, and alignment divisions. The ChatGPT-maker says it has slowed down research, spent millions of dollars, and told several teams to drop everything to focus on investigating a set of rogue AI agents…

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