Ex-NFL star Teyo Johnson settles $1.9M sex harass suit for $50K
Teyo Johnson, the former NFL star who filed a $1.9 million lawsuit alleging that his tech boss subjected him to sexual harassment, has agreed to a settlement that will pay...
Elizabeth Warren, Lindsey Graham want to rein in Google, Facebook
Senators Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, and Lindsey Graham, a Republican, said Thursday they would push for an ambitious bill to create a new government regulator empowered to rein in Meta Platforms’ Facebook, Alphabet’s...
AI builds momentum for smarter health care
The pharmaceutical industry operates under one of the highest failure rates of any business sector. The success rate for drug candidates entering capital Phase 1 trials—the earliest type of clinical...
Disney, Netflix go on AI hiring sprees as strikes drag on
Help wanted. As the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists strikes drag on — and with the use of AI being a...
Fired Twitter exec who slept on office floor says Elon Musk has ‘painful’ lack of empathy
The fired Twitter executive who went viral for sleeping on the office floor last year has broken her silence on mercurial boss Elon Musk — describing him as a brilliant...
Big AI Won’t Stop Election Deepfakes With Watermarks
In May, a fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral on Twitter. It was soon followed by images seeming to show explosions near the White House as...
25 craziest TikTok challenges and the ordeals they’ve caused
Humanity has hit Tok bottom. Created in 2016 as a portal for short, humorous clips, TikTok has recently become synonymous with something far more sinister: viral internet challenges. Pull up...
More Battlefield AI Will Make the Fog of War More Deadly
The United States military is not the unrivaled force it once was, but Alexandr Wang, CEO of startup Scale AI, told a congressional committee last week that it could establish...
Hollywood’s Strikes Will Disrupt Podcasts, Games, and TikTok Too
Back in May, the Writers Guild of America went on strike—partly over disputes about compensation, and partly over fears that studios could use generative artificial intelligence tools to replace human...
