Facebook, Instagram down worldwide as Meta faces global outage
Facebook and Instagram users were met with a message that the online services were down on Tuesday. Meta’s signature social media platforms informed users of a “failure to load” on...
I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too
Thirteen years ago, as an assignment for a journalism class, I wrote a stupid short story about a man who eats luxury cat food. This morning, I sat and watched...
Nobody knows how AI works
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I’ve been experimenting with using AI...
Using generative AI to improve software testing
Generative AI is getting plenty of attention for its ability to create text and images. But those media represent only a fraction of the data that proliferate in our society...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin admits company ‘messed up’ on Gemini
Google co-founder Sergey Brin admitted the tech giant “definitely messed up on the image generation” function for its AI bot Gemini, which spit out “woke” depictions of black founding fathers...
Ex-Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for over $128M in severance: report
Four former top Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, have sued Elon Musk for over $128 million in severance, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The other plaintiffs are Ned Segal,...
EU slaps Apple with $2B antitrust fine after complaint from Spotify
European Union regulators slapped Apple with a whopping $2 billion antitrust fine on Monday for “abusing a dominant position” in the music streaming industry through its App Store practices. The European...
Red Sea cables damaged, disrupting global internet traffic
Undersea cables in the Red Sea have been damaged, causing “significant” disruption to global telecommunications networks, according to reports. Though it wasn’t immediately clear how the cables were marred, Yemeni...
JPMorgan’s AI-driven cashflow tool slashes manual work by 90%
JPMorgan has been using cashflow management software that runs on artificial intelligence — and it has reportedly slashed manual work for some of its corporate customers by almost 90%. The...
