African Development Bank

EOI - Two consultants to support Data Ecosystem Diagnostic and implementation of Open Data principles - ECST

The AfDB is recruiting consultants to help national statistical offices assess their data ecosystems’ readiness for establishing a Data Innovation Lab (DIL) and identify the conditions for its ...
Homeland Security Today

Interoperability 2.0: Governance, Standard Operating Procedures, and Training in the Age of Emerging Technologies

Cal OES engines prepositioned, and now responding, to the multiple fires impacting Southern California. (Photo: California Governor's Office of Emergency Services via X) In 2007, I wrote in Homeland ...
Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...
TechCrunch

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...
CNN

Dept. of Labor launches investigation into data collection process at BLS

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant ...
The Robot Report

RealMan launches robotics data training center in Beijing

RealMan Robotics, a Beijing-based developer of robotic arms and mobile manipulators, this week launched a robotics data training center in Beijing. The company said the hub brings together core ...
iapp.org

A view from Brussels: The implementation challenges of the EU Data Act

Editor's note: The IAPP is policy neutral. We publish contributed opinion and analysis pieces to enable our members to hear a broad spectrum of views in our domains. Brussels has enacted a package of ...
Business Wire

Pink Bows Foundation to Host Showstop® Procedure Training Across North America

In response to recent crowd safety incidents at large-scale events, the Foundation is scaling its program after certifying over 260 event professionals in the U.S. and Europe. In response to ...
TechRepublic

Cisco Talos Researcher Reveals Method That Causes LLMs to Expose Training Data

Cisco Talos Researcher Reveals Method That Causes LLMs to Expose Training Data Your email has been sent In this TechRepublic interview, Cisco researcher Amy Chang details the decomposition method and ...
The New York Times

Cuts to Data Collection May Erode Reliability of Economic Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...