Teen drains family’s savings of $64K — by buying mobile games
It’s not all fun and games. A teen in China drained her family’s life savings on video games, buying a whopping $64,000 worth of pay-to-play mobile entertainment. Gong Yiwang, mom to...
Mark Walters suing ChatGPT for embezzled ‘hallucination’
OpenAI has been slapped with its first-ever defamation lawsuit after a ChatGPT “hallucination” generated a bogus embezzlement complaint against a Georgia radio host, according to a lawsuit. Mark Walters was...
GameStop fires CEO, names Ryan Cohen executive chairman
GameStop fired CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appointed billionaire Ryan Cohen as executive chairman, sending the company’s shares down 20% in extended trading. A former executive at...
Apple ‘jumped the shark’ with Vision Pro headset: Tony Fadell
Apple officially “jumped the shark” with its release of the $3,499 “Vision Pro” mixed-reality headset, according to a former company executive widely credited as the “father of the iPod.” Tony...
Evaluating speech synthesis in many languages with SQuId
Posted by Thibault Sellam, Research Scientist, Google Previously, we presented the 1,000 languages initiative and the Universal Speech Model with the goal of making speech and language technologies available to...
ChatGPT may know more than your doctor about smoking, suicide and sex
Doctor ChatGPT will see you now — and you might like it better than your human doctor. Recent studies suggest that many people find chatbot programs like ChatGPT more caring...
OpenAI’s Sam Altman complained chip shortage is ‘delaying’ ChatGPT plans
OpenAI boss Sam Altman admitted a computer chip shortage is hindering ChatGPT’s progress during an off-the-record meeting in London last month – the details of which surfaced after one attendee...
Volvo unveils affordable EX30 electric SUV in move to compete with Tesla
Volvo launched its EX30 fully-electric small SUV on Wednesday with two battery options and a starting price of around $38,500, as carmakers compete with Tesla to make electric vehicles more affordable. The...
Deepmind’s AI Is Learning About the Art of Coding
In the field of computer science, there is perhaps no more fundamental task than to sort. Bubble, heap, merge—take your pick. The methods for reordering data inside a computer have...
