How AI Protects (and Attacks) Your Inbox
When Aparna Pappu, vice president and general manager of Google Workspace, spoke at Google I/O on May 10, she laid out a vision for artificial intelligence that helps users wade...
European Space Agency’s first-ever Mars livestream interrupted by rain
A European spacecraft’s historic first-of-its-kind livestream from the red planet was constantly interrupted by rain — from Earth. The European Space Agency broadcast the livestream of stunning views of Earth’s...
AI blamed for 3,900 people losing their jobs in May: report
Nearly 4,000 Americans lost their jobs in May because they were replaced by artificial intelligence — the first time that AI has been blamed for workers being unemployed, according to...
Robots could go full ‘Terminator’ after scientists create realistic, self-healing skin
Robots could soon be cloaked in human-like synthetic skin, similar to the cyborg assassin of the “Terminator” movie franchise, after Stanford University researchers developed an ultra-realistic, self-healing material. Researchers have been...
AVFormer: Injecting vision into frozen speech models for zero-shot AV-ASR
Posted by Arsha Nagrani and Paul Hongsuck Seo, Research Scientists, Google Research Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a well-established technology that is widely adopted for various applications such as conference...
Twitter’s executive A.J. Brown to leave
Twitter’s head of brand safety and ad quality, A.J. Brown, has decided to leave the company, according to a source familiar with the matter on Friday, the second safety leader...
Amazon in talks to offer mobile services to Prime members
Amazon is in talks with several telecom providers to offer low-cost or possibly free mobile phone service to US Prime subscribers, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The...
Meta orders workers back to office 3 days per week after layoffs
Facebook parent Meta is ordering most of its employees to work on site at least three days per week beginning this fall — the latest move in Mark Zuckerberg’s ongoing...
The Instagram Founders’ News App Artifact Is Actually an AI Play
The invasion of chatbots has disrupted the plans of countless businesses, including some that had been working on that very technology for years (looking at you, Google). But not Artifact, the...
