ChatGPT Now Has an iPhone App
In March, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple had rejected an email app’s generative-AI-infused update until the developer gave the app a 17+ restriction, expressing concerns that AI tools could generate...
Apple’s $3,000 mixed-reality headsets to hit the market, far cry from sleek eyeglasses tech
Apple is set to release long-awaited mixed-reality headsets for $3,000 a pop — three times the price of what rival Meta charges for a similar product. The high-tech specs will...
Montana becomes 1st state to ban TikTok as battle over free speech looms
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte on Wednesday signed legislation to ban the Chinese-owned TikTok from operating in the state, making it the first state to ban the popular short video app. Montana will...
Is medicine ready for AI? Doctors, computer scientists, and policymakers are cautiously optimistic
The advent of generative artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT has prompted renewed calls for AI in health care, and its support base only appears to be broadening. The second annual...
Elizabeth Holmes will begin prison sentence on May 30
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes to report to prison on May 30 to begin her 11-year sentence after she lost a last-minute appeal to...
Cognitive scientists develop new model explaining difficulty in language comprehension
Cognitive scientists have long sought to understand what makes some sentences more difficult to comprehend than others. Any account of language comprehension, researchers believe, would benefit from understanding difficulties in...
Strengthening electron-triggered light emission
The way electrons interact with photons of light is a key part of many modern technologies, from lasers to solar panels to LEDs. But the interaction is inherently a weak...
How Humanity Can Avoid an AI Takeover
We talk to MIT professor Daron Acemoglu about his book Power and Progress and unpack why making direct human-to-AI comparisons isn’t necessarily helpful in determining our relationship with technology. Source
Simulating discrimination in virtual reality
Have you ever been advised to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes?” Considering another person’s perspective can be a challenging endeavor — but recognizing our errors and biases is...
