Elon Musk’s xAI to open-source its Grok chatbot
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI will open-source the code for its snarky Grok chatbot “this week,” its billionaire founder said. The move makes Grok’s source code freely available —...
An OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humans
In the summer of 2021, OpenAI quietly shuttered its robotics team, announcing that progress was being stifled by a lack of data necessary to train robots in how to move...
X to launch app for smart TVs ‘identical’ to YouTube TV: report
Elon Musk’s X is set to launch an app “identical” to YouTube’s TV offering for smart televisions as early as next week, according to a report. Musk’s goal is to...
An AI-Altered Hitler Speech Is Going Viral On X
AI-altered video clips of Adolf Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech at the beginning of World War II have recently gone viral. In the speech, Hitler proclaimed that the upcoming war would...
The Quest to Give AI Chatbots a Hand—and an Arm
Peter Chen, CEO of the robot software company Covariant, sits in front of a chatbot interface resembling the one used to communicate with ChatGPT. “Show me the tote in front...
Potential TikTok sale has Wall Street buzzing as incendiary House bill gains support
Wall Street is buzzing about a TikTok sale as Congress fast-tracks a bombshell bill that would require its China-based owner to unload it – but tech insiders say such a...
Trump raises concerns about TikTok ban as Facebook will ‘double their business’
Presidential candidate Donald Trump raised concerns about banning TikTok ahead of a vote next week by the House that would give TikTok owner ByteDance about six months to divest the popular short...
Instagram’s hidden game is played with your favorite emoji — here’s how
As if anyone needed it, there’s a new way to kill time on social media. Instagram has hidden an emoji-based game within the direct messaging feature of their smartphone app...
Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A team of computer scientists has created a nimbler, more flexible type of machine learning model. The trick: It must...
