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AI's Controversial Role in Legal Defense, Facial ID in Policing, and Pakistan's Crypto Mining Push

Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations

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• Butler Snow law firm used AI-generated fake citations to defend Alabama prisons, resulting in potential sanctions.
• Inmate at William E Donaldson prison in Alabama alleges being stabbed multiple times, highlighting issues in prison safety and legal defense tactics.

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Valuable tool or cause for alarm? Facial ID quietly becoming part of police's arsenal

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• Facial recognition technology is quietly becoming a part of police operations in England and Wales, with live facial recognition cameras being set up in public areas to compare facial features to a watchlist.
• Artificial intelligence is being used to process digital photographs taken by facial recognition cameras, enabling immediate comparison to watchlist images and triggering alerts that could lead to arrests.

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Pakistan Allocates 2,000-MW Capacity to Power Bitcoin Mining

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• Pakistan has allocated 2,000 megawatts of electricity to support Bitcoin mining and AI data centers in a national effort to legalize cryptocurrency and attract foreign investments.
• This move signifies Pakistan's strategic focus on promoting cryptocurrency mining and AI infrastructure to boost its economy and attract international capital.

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