New book reveals how the whistle got blown on Facebook
On a December afternoon in 2020, Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz drove to Redwood Regional Park, just east of Oakland, Calif., for a mysterious meeting. For months, he’d been...
Are AI faces ‘more human’ than real ones? See if you can tell the difference
Face the facts. AI-generated faces look more “real” than some humans, according to a new study — at least, when it comes to white people. Published in the Psychological Science...
Big Tech companies lose bid to toss lawsuits alleging harm to children
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by major social media companies to dismiss nationwide litigation accusing them of illegally enticing and then addicting millions of children to their platforms,...
AI is at an inflection point, Fei-Fei Li says
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. “This moment in AI is an...
Google DeepMind’s weather AI can forecast extreme weather faster and more accurately
This year the Earth has been hit by a record number of unpredictable extreme weather events made worse by climate change. Predicting them faster and with greater accuracy could enable...
Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard
In September, researchers at Google’s DeepMind AI unit in London were paying unusual attention to the weather across the pond. Hurricane Lee was at least 10 days out from landfall—eons...
How Facebook went all in on AI
The following is excerpted from BROKEN CODE: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff Horwitz. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf...
How Lauren Sánchez makes fiancé Jeff Bezos more interesting
Evangelists for life in outer space, Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos are already living on a different celestial body. Welcome to Planet Ridiculous, population: 2. The December issue of Vogue,...
AI training simulates real conversations to help prevent veteran suicide
Artificial intelligence is working to save the lives of America’s heroes. A new product by ReflexAI called HomeTeam was just released this week, with the goal of preventing veteran suicide. San Diego-based...
