AI ‘MomVerse’ bot can write poems for Mother’s Day
Those who dread signing cards need not fear, a flower delivery service has launched an AI bot that can write poems and songs for Mother’s Day. Dubbed the “MomVerse,” 1-800-FLOWERS.COM...
Artist sues AI generators for allegedly using work to train image bots
AI-generated images that mimic an artist’s style is a form of identity theft and compete with the very creatives whose work was used to train the models, a fine artist...
Google to label AI-generated images as viral Trump deepfake
Google is adding features that will help users identify pictures that were generated through artificial intelligence — a move that came after deepfake images of Pope Francis in a Balenciaga...
Tesla shouldn’t call driving system Autopilot, Pete Buttigieg says
Tesla shouldn’t be calling its partially automated driving system Autopilot because the cars can’t drive themselves, the top US transportation official says. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he’s concerned about Tesla’s marketing of the...
Elon Musk to tap NBCU ad boss Linda Yaccarino as new Twitter CEO: report
Billionaire Elon Musk revealed Thursday that he has hired a female executive to replace him as CEO of Twitter. Musk’s pick reportedly will be NBCUniversal’s head of advertising Linda Yaccarino,...
How the Blackberry became indispensable — and then disappeared
Back in the 1990s, long before the pandemic made remote work the new normal, a few tech geeks at a Canadian company named Research In Motion, working out of a...
I was a victim of ‘pig butchering’ — I got scammed out of $450K
Step aside, Tinder Swindler — meet the latest Hinge Cringe. A 37-year-old tech executive from Philadelphia claims she fell for an online romance scam known as “pig butchering” — a...
Passenger planes could have AI pilots: airline president
This is your AI-generated pilot speaking. Tim Clark, president of the airline Emirates, believes artificial intelligence could replace real-life pilots in passenger airplanes — but not in his lifetime. “You might...
Elon Musk’s Twitter CEO pick Linda Yaccarino leaving NBCUniversal ‘effective immediately’
NBCUniversal announced Friday that its head of advertising, Linda Yaccarino, is leaving her post “effectively immediately” as the long-tenured executive reportedly engages in advanced talks with Elon Musk to take...
