Elon Musk’s xAI startup targets valuation as high as $20B: sources
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI — which powers the snarky Grok chatbot — is aiming to raise billions of dollars in the coming weeks in a private funding round...
New York AG Letitia James opens probe into AT&T wireless outage
New York Attorney General Letitia James said Thursday her office is investigating the cause of last week’s AT&T wireless outage for up to 12 hours as well as the telecom...
Facebook parent Meta targeted in privacy complaints by EU groups
Meta Platforms was hit with privacy complaints on Thursday as eight EU consumer groups asked watchdogs to act against the Facebook owner for alleged breaches of the bloc’s privacy rules when it collects user data. The complaints by consumer groups in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France,...
The AI Culture Wars Are Just Getting Started
Google apologized after its Gemini model caused offense by being too “woke.” Expect political fights over AI’s values to worsen as the technology becomes more capable. Source
SEC reportedly probing whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman misled investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating internal communications sent by OpenAI chief Sam Altman as part of a probe into whether the tech whiz misled investors. The federal...
How Nvidia Came to Rule AI
[Break] Lauren Goode: All right, Will. What is your recommendation? Will Knight: My recommendation is this application called WhisperKit, which is from a company called Argmax, which was founded by...
Google DeepMind’s new generative model makes Super Mario-like games from scratch
OpenAI’s recent reveal of its stunning generative model Sora pushed the envelope of what’s possible with text-to-video. Now Google DeepMind brings us text-to-video games. The new model, called Genie, can...
Generative AI: Differentiating disruptors from the disrupted
Generative AI, though still an emergent technology, has been in the headlines since OpenAI’s ChatGPT sparked a global frenzy in 2023. The technology has rapidly advanced far beyond its early,...
Think your spouse is cheating? There’s a way to check on Wi-Fi
Messing with their home Wi-Fi settings could be causing couples to lose their connection. A TikTok snoop has shared a tech trick that can shed light on a partner’s internet...
