Nissan, Kia ‘collect data about drivers’ sexual activity’
Your car may be keeping tabs on your “sex drive.” Car makers Nissan and Kia can collect data on their drivers’ “sexual activity” and “sex lives” — and may sell...
Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted
An award-winning piece of AI art cannot be copyrighted, the US Copyright Office has ruled. The artwork, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, was created by Matthew Allen and came first in last...
Elon Musk pictured for first time with Shivon Zilis and their twins
Elon Musk was photographed for the first time with his twins alongside their mother Shivon Zilis, who also works for the mogul at his brain chip company Neuralink. The image...
Roku shares surge after plan to cut 10% of workforce, limit hiring
Roku is cutting about 10% of its workforce, or 360 people, and it will limit new hiring as it cuts costs to stem a series of quarterly losses. The streaming...
China bans government officials from using iPhones for work: report
China ordered officials at central government agencies not to use Apple’s iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work or bring them into the office, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people...
Elon Musk borrowed $1B from SpaceX in same month he bought Twitter
Elon Musk borrowed a whopping $1 billion from SpaceX back in October — the same month he purchased the social media platform then known as Twitter in a $44 billion...
AI Can Be An Extraordinary Force For Good—if It’s Contained
In a quaint Regency-era office overlooking London’s Russell Square, I cofounded a company called DeepMind with two friends, Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg, in the summer of 2010. Our goal,...
Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
It’s easy to trick the large language models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. In one experiment in February, security researchers forced Microsoft’s Bing chatbot to behave like...
Chinese AI chatbots want to be your emotional support
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Chinese ChatGPT-like bots are having a...
