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Meta is taking an unusual approach to keeping minors off its platforms — using artificial intelligence to analyze users' bone structure and height from images to estimate whether they might be underage. The system is already running in select countries, with a broader rollout planned, and the company is extending its teen account detection tools to Facebook as well. It's a technically ambitious move, though questions about accuracy and privacy are already surfacing.
Shifting to the AI governance space, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to let the US government review their frontier AI models before public release. The Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation will conduct pre-deployment evaluations to assess capabilities and risks. It's a notable step toward oversight in an industry that has largely set its own rules.
And in a story that sounds almost like science fiction, a startup called Panthalassa has raised one hundred forty million dollars to build wave-powered offshore AI data centers. Backed by Peter Thiel, the company wants to run compute nodes at sea, using ocean energy for both power and cooling. It's an unconventional answer to one of tech's most pressing infrastructure problems.
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