Wall Street Steps Up Political Spending

Many companies are cutting costs, which affect those at the very bottom of the AI supply chain who are often highly vulnerable: data labelers. In dusty factories, cramped internet cafes and makeshift home offices around the world, millions of people sit at computers tediously labeling data.

The storm also may trigger northern lights as far south in the U. S. as the lower Midwest and Northern California. A severe solar storm is headed to Earth that could stress power grids even more as the U. S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes, space weather forecasters said Wednesday.

The influential VC told Andreessen Horowitz employees he “personally” supports Harris, but still believes Trump is less likely to regulate AI startups. Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy.

The FTC and 49 states ran parallel investigations into three data breaches, which took place between 2014 and 2020. Marriott International has agreed to pay $52 million and make changes to bolster its data security to resolve state and federal claims related to major data breaches that affected more than 300 million of its customers worldwide.

Some professors argue that Geoffrey Hinton’s physics prize win was questionable. The award this week of Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics to a small number of artificial intelligence pioneers affiliated with Google has stirred debate over the company’s research dominance and how breakthroughs in computer science ought to be recognised.

The agency will begin notifying recipients about their new benefit amount by mail starting in early December. Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 2.5% cost-of-living increase to their monthly checks beginning in January, the Social Security Administration announced Thursday. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for retirees translates to an average increase of more than $50 for retirees every month, agency officials said.