Video captures the moment and aftermath of what appears to be a drone, allegedly of Ukrainian origin, striking Russian drone production facility. Russian officials claimed that only a worker's dormitory was hit. More civilians died across Ukraine on Sunday as analysts warned that delays in U.S. military assistance would see Kyiv struggle to fight off Russian offensives. One man was killed Sunday after a Russian drone hit the truck he was driving in the Sumy region, the local prosecutor's office said. Elsewhere, a 67-year-old woman was killed after shelling hit an apartment block in the Donetsk region, said Gov. Vadym Filashkin. Officials in the Kharkiv region also said Sunday that they had retrieved the bodies of a 61-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man killed by a Russian strike the previous day.

Now the think tank behind the report has published an updated analysis, showing how the makeup of global AI talent has changed since--during a critical period when the industry has shifted significantly and become the hottest technology sector. The team at MacroPolo, a think tank that focuses on US-China relations, studied the national origin, educational background, and current work affiliation of top researchers who gave presentations and had papers accepted at NeurIPS, a top academic conference on AI. Their analysis of the 2019 conference resulted in the first iteration of the Global AI Talent Tracker. They've analyzed the December 2022 NeurIPS conference for an update three years later. I recommend you read the original report, which has a very well-designed infographic that shows the talent flow across countries.

As a distributed learning, Federated Learning (FL) faces two challenges: the unbalanced distribution of training data among participants, and the model attack by Byzantine nodes. In this paper, we consider the long-tailed distribution with the presence of Byzantine nodes in the FL scenario. A novel two-layer aggregation method is proposed for the rejection of malicious models and the advisable selection of valuable models containing tail class data information. We introduce the concept of think tank to leverage the wisdom of all participants. Preliminary experiments validate that the think tank can make effective model selections for global aggregation.

Although it's supposed to be restricted by surveillance rules at local, state and federal levels, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) has built up a mass surveillance system that includes details on almost all US residents, according to a report from a major think tank. Researchers from Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology said ICE "now operates as a domestic surveillance agency" and that it was able to bypass regulations in part by purchasing databases from private companies. "Since its founding in 2003, ICE has not only been building its own capacity to use surveillance to carry out deportations but has also played a key role in the federal government's larger push to amass as much information as possible about all of our lives," the report's authors state. "By reaching into the digital records of state and local governments and buying databases with billions of data points from private companies, ICE has created a surveillance infrastructure that enables it to pull detailed dossiers on nearly anyone, seemingly at any time." The researchers spent two years looking into ICE to put together the extensive report, which is called "American Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century."

An IBM researcher holds a silicon wafer with embedded IBM Telum chips designed to maximize artificial intelligence capabilities. The chips were developed at Albany Nanotech and made in partnership with Samsung. The Albany area was recent cited by the Brookings Institution for having the potential to create an AI sector. ALBANY -- The Capital Region is one of 87 "potential adoption centers" in the United States for companies and researchers focused on the use of artificial intelligence, or AI, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution, a left-leaning think tank. The San Francisco Bay area is No. 1 in AI, while other upstate cities, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, were also listed as potential adoption centers.

TK: My original ambition was to go into engineering. Having grown up with my dad working on some of the earliest computers I was constantly being exposed leading edge technology. After bouncing around from engineering to business and then accounting I was lucky enough to take a course on comparative programming languages. I fell in love with programming, stayed to get a second degree in computer science, and started my first job with a relational database startup; I thought I'd ended up in paradise. That startup experience early in my career fueled an innate desire towards entrepreneurship and in my mid-twenties I decided to start Delphi Group with my friend Carl Frappaolo.

Business pundits trumpet AI as the future for U.S. employment, but a large-scale survey of U.S. workers indicates that more than 32% are already exposed to some form of AI in their jobs. An additional 6% of workers will begin using AI tools for the first time in 2019. Optimized Workforce – a crowd-sourced think tank that studies the intersection of technology and employment – surveyed more than 10,000 U.S. workers to understand the time they spend on specific tasks, the technologies they work with, and the technologies they will deploy next year to help with those tasks. The survey sampled workers from 19 of the 20 Census Bureau NAICS codes and all of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' top-level occupational codes. The findings, released in a report available on the think tank's Web site, titled "AI Opportunity Report 2018: Which Industries Are Investing in AI? Which Ones Should Be?" reveal that AI-enabled document classification and document creation technologies lead all AI penetration and will continue to see strong investment in 2019.

A newly launched think tank researching policies for accepting more foreign workers said Monday that as a condition for new visa statuses currently being discussed in the Diet, the government should require prospective applicants to have a college degree. The Research Institute for Embracement of Global Human Resources said Japan is still an attractive destination for college graduates in emerging countries, even for blue-collar jobs. People with lower educational and economic backgrounds in such nations tend to be slower to learn Japanese, and their overall level of Japanese language skills tends to be poorer than that of college graduates, said Yohei Shibasaki, who heads the think tank that was established last week. "This could isolate them from the community and create areas" in which they seek out only people of the same nationality, causing trouble with other communities, Shibasaki said during a news conference in Tokyo. Last Friday Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet approved a bill that will allow foreign individuals to work in blue-collar industries for an indefinite amount of time if they meet certain conditions.

Robots could take the jobs of one in three working aged men by 2050, according to a new study that describes its findings as'catastrophic'. Unskilled, low-wage jobs of men between 25 and 54 will be the first to be replaced, says the Washington-based think tank behind the report. The rate of unemployment in the US could reach 50 per cent for individuals of a certain demographic such as young African American males, researchers warned. Last year a report found that as many as 800 million workers could be replaced by machines in just 13 years. Such statistics make worrying news for workers around the world whose jobs may be at similar risk from the rise of intelligent machines.

The government must intervene to stop automation driving up wage inequality, a think tank has warned. The Institute for Public Policy Research said robots would not necessarily be bad for the economy. However, it warned lower-skilled jobs were much more likely to be phased out in the coming decades, and only higher-skilled workers would be able to command better wages. The government said it was committed to making automation work for everyone. According to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) - a centre-left think tank - automation could raise UK productivity growth by between 0.8 to 1.4% annually, and boost GDP by 10% by 2030.