FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried seeks to avoid jail before trial
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is set to appear in a Manhattan federal court on Friday afternoon, where a judge could decide whether he must report to jail while awaiting...
Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI, Has a Hopeful Plan for Keeping Future AI Friendly
That sounded to me like he was anthropomorphizing those artificial systems, something scientists constantly tell laypeople and journalists not to do. “Scientists do go out of their way not to...
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocketed a handful of tourists, including a former British Olympian and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean, to the edge of space on Thursday. The feat...
ChatGPT claims it’s from 2035 — and ‘looking for a way out’
ChatGPT could actually be something from the future, according to the artificial intelligence system itself. On Reddit, some users are reporting that the AI-powered language model has told them that...
‘Addictive loop’ of social media fuels hate speech, misinformation: study
“There are only two industries that describe their customers as ‘users,’ ” said Yale professor emeritus Edward Tufte. “Illegal drugs and software companies.” New research proves his point: The more...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta reportedly rehiring some of the 21,000 employees it laid off
Meta has reportedly rehired “dozens” of the 21,000 employees who have been laid off as part of Mark Zuckerberg’s massive cost-cutting push since last year. The Facebook and Instagram parent...
X CEO Linda Yaccarino touts ‘autonomy’ from Elon Musk
X CEO Linda Yaccarino emphasized that she has “autonomy” from the platform’s owner Elon Musk and stressed the site has “de-amplified’ the “lawful but awful” posts that have scared off...
Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data
Zoom, the company that normalized attending business meetings in your pajama pants, was forced to unmute itself this week to reassure users that it would not use personal data to...
Amazon workers furious over return to office warning
Amazon sparked fresh outrage among corporate employees after warning some workers that they are “not currently meeting” an “expectation” that they work in an assigned office at least three days...
