The U.S. and China are locked in a determined race to dominate the future of artificial intelligence. But, with hundreds of billions of dollars and geopolitical supremacy at stake, Europe is moving to block any untrammeled triumph by the two.
What's happening: Experts call AI a transformative technology in the same league as electricity, and say the two big great powers — the U.S. and China — are positioned to dominate it as it creeps into consumer, business and military use. But in recent weeks, the U.K. and EU have announced an explicit aim to grab part of the commanding heights of AI.
Americans received an estimated 3.4 billion automated scam calls last month, per The New York Times. That's over 900 million more calls than the same month last year.
What's happening: The FTC and FCC recently examined policies to clamp down on illegal caller ID spoofing — when spam callers mimic the target's own phone number — and lawmakers in Congress have introduced or passed legislation to curb the surge. However, the FCC recently rolled back Obama-era guidance on what constitutes an "auto-dialer," which some consumer advocates warn could open the floodgates for more spam callers.
The United Kingdom's data privacy watchdog is demanding that Cambridge Analytica turn over all the information it collected on American citizen David Carroll, who used British law to request his personal information from the now-defunct data firm, Reuters reports.
Why it matters: Carroll's legal success "sets a precedent that would enable millions of other U.S. voters to request information that the company had collected on them," according to Reuters.
