Google’s GenAI Bots Are Struggling. But so Are Its Humans
The last few months have been rough for Google. Company executives have been in the hot seat because of some embarrassing missteps, the most awkward of which was the bungled...
Elon Musk deletes X post blasting Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott
Elon Musk blasted Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott for her charitable donations in an X post that he deleted a short time after it went online Wednesday evening. “‘Super rich...
The Fear That Inspired Elon Musk and Sam Altman to Create OpenAI
Elon Musk last week sued two of his OpenAI cofounders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, accusing them of “flagrant breaches” of the trio’s original agreement that the company would develop...
Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination
Hall says when she has access to an interpreter, they are rotated throughout the week, forcing her to repeatedly explain some technical concepts. “Google is going the cheap route,” Hall...
How a new, promising treatment may help veterans with PTSD
Combining virtual reality exposure with low electrical brain stimulation offers promising results for people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, a study published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry found. Although it...
5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance
San Francisco made history in 2019 when its Board of Supervisors voted to ban city agencies including the police department from using face recognition. About two dozen other US cities...
Ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding accused of stealing AI tech while secretly working with China-linked companies
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the...
Apple blocks ‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games’s app store plans in Europe
Apple blocked “Fortnite” maker Epic Games from launching its own third-party app store for iPhone and iPad customers in Europe – a stunning escalation of the long-running legal feud between...
Microsoft’s Copilot Designer makes ‘sexual, violent content’: AI engineer
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence imaging tool — powered by technology from Sam Altman’s OpenAI — produces sexually explicit and violent images that could cause harm to the public, according to a...
