Making sense of all things data
Data, and more specifically using data, is not a new concept, but it remains an elusive one. It comes with terms like “the internet of things” (IoT) and “the cloud,”...
Chipotle rolls out new robot called Autocado to take on avocados
Chipotle is trying out a new worker that’s angling to prepare the chain’s famed avocado twice as fast as the current pace. The Mexican grill on Wednesday introduced Autocado, a...
How an “AI-tocracy” emerges
Many scholars, analysts, and other observers have suggested that resistance to innovation is an Achilles’ heel of authoritarian regimes. Such governments can fail to keep up with technological changes that...
Model Lisa Opie uses AI to create Glamour Bulgaria Barbie-inspired cover
She’s a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world — kind of. A model used artificial intelligence to create, for the first time ever, an entire magazine cover shoot — in...
H&R Block shared taxpayers data with Meta: lawmakers
Three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over the course of at least two years, a group of congressional...
Elon Musk’s xAI Might Be Hallucinating Its Chances Against ChatGPT
In April, Elon Musk told right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson that he was starting a project to compete with ChatGPT and build “a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the...
Fired Twitter workers demand Elon Musk pay $500M in severance
Twitter on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk...
Generative AI imagines new protein structures
Biology is a wondrous yet delicate tapestry. At the heart is DNA, the master weaver that encodes proteins, responsible for orchestrating the many biological functions that sustain life within the...
Elon Musk launches artificial intelligence firm xAI
Elon Musk launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team made up of engineers from the same big US technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his...
