How Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI
One evening in early September, T, a 28-year-old actor who asked to be identified by his first initial, took his seat in a rented Hollywood studio space in front of...
To excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds
ChatGPT and other deep generative models are proving to be uncanny mimics. These AI supermodels can churn out poems, finish symphonies, and create new videos and images by automatically learning...
AI can detect diabetes — just by listening to you talk: study
Talk to your robo-doctor. New medical research finds that artificial intelligence can detect type 2 diabetes merely by listening to a patient speak for six to ten seconds. The study...
Elon Musk-owned Tesla profit margins shrink after prices slashed
Tesla’s aggressive price cuts pushed its quarterly gross margin to a more-than four-year low but the electric car maker stuck to its annual production target, a sign that it is creating...
Google executive defends search quality in US antitrust trial, knocks Bing
Alphabet’s Google called its first witness on Wednesday in a once-in-a-generation US antitrust trial, putting on the witness stand an executive who detailed the vast effort the company puts into ensuring search quality....
Netflix hikes prices despite adding whopping 9M subscribers in Q3
Netflix raised subscription prices for some of its streaming plans in the US, Britain and France on Wednesday, a move to boost revenue in a competitive streaming market. Shares of Netflix rose nearly...
Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu Wins A.SK Social Science Award
Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor and the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in MIT’s School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, is the 2023 recipient of the WZB Berlin Social...
Amazon revamps warehouses with robots to reduce delivery times
Amazon will add a slew of new robotics and artificial intelligence-technologies at its warehouses in an effort to reduce delivery times and speed up inventory operations — and limit injuries,...
‘Only way to fight bots’
Elon Musk pushed through a $1 annual fee for new users of his social media site X to unlock basic features such as posting or sharing content – a move...
