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White House pushes tech industry to shut down market for sexually abusive AI deepfakes

President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology. New generative AI tools have made it easy to transform someone’s likeness into a sexually explicit AI deepfake and share those realistic images across chatrooms or social media.…

STL Transportation Plan

The City of St.Louis has announced an initiative to develop a Transportation and Mobility plan designed to help both residents and visitors to the city. Mayor Tishaura Jones says work on the plan has begun, and that it is the 1st city-wide mobility plan in St.Louis in decades. She says everyone deserves to feel safe…

DED Awards in STL Region

The Missouri Department of Economic Development has awarded $6 million in 50% tax credits to 37 organizations through the Youth Opportunities Program.  24 of those organizations are here in the St.Louis region…they range from non-profits,to educational and faith-based organizations,to local governments and businesses that work on youth development or crime-prevention projects. Recipients here include Big…

House panel advances Garland contempt after White House blocks access to Biden special counsel tape

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee voted to move forward with an effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress hours. This comes after the White House blocked access to an audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with the special counsel who oversaw an investigation into his handling of classified…

Surveillance Technology in St.Louis

  The St.Louis Mayor’s Office has released it’s first annual report on the use of surveillance technology in the City. Just hours before her State of the City address on Tuesday, Mayor Tishaura Jones issued a press release stating that this first report will help the STL community see that concerns the public has about…

Updating MO Statutes 

  The Missouri House has unanimously passed a bill designed to improve the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development. HB 2650 passed with 147 votes and no opposition. Bill sponsor Willard Haley says the goal is to modernize existing statutes in order to meet the needs of MO’s educational and workforce landscape. He says…