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Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) and Madeline Dean (D-PA) filed the No AI FRAUD Act building on themes in an earlier bill introduced in October. If passed, the bill will protect individual likenesses and voices at a unified federal level instead of a patchwork state-level one, giving people the right to control who can use their image and fight against AI-generated impersonation.
And yes, it cites AI Drake and Weeknd’s “Heart on My Sleeve.”
[Representative Maria Salazar]
It’s new Snapdragon processor day everyone! The Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 is the successor to last year’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, and is destined for phones costing between $400 and $600.
AnandTech has a thorough breakdown of all the changes, but the headline improvements are an up to 50 percent boost to CPU performance, and a GPU that’s two times faster.
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