Flock Tests Police AI That Turns Driving Patterns Into Names and Addresses
1. Flock Tests Police AI That Can Identify Drivers by Driving Patterns and Link Them to Names and Addresses Flock Safety is testing an artificial intelligence tool that lets police start with a place, time period and pattern of driving, then find people whose vehicles match.
2. Google Discover Will Let Users Retune Its Recommendation Feed With Chat Instructions Google is adding a conversational way to customize Discover, the feed of recommended articles based on a person’s activity across Google Search and the company’s apps.
3. In Two Six-Day Tests, AI Agents Completed Research Engineering but Produced No Top-Conference-Caliber Results AI agents completed much of the practical work needed for two artificial-intelligence research projects but failed to produce results worthy of a top machine-learning conference, according to a new
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