Who Is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s New Interim CEO?
Mira Murati was elevated from OpenAI’s CTO to its interim leader after CEO Sam Altman was ousted Friday. Like all the company’s leaders she believes that artificial general intelligence is...
Google search antitrust judge admits he has ‘no idea’ how he will rule
The federal judge who will determine the fate of Google’s online search empire admitted that he still has “no idea” how he expects to rule in the landmark antitrust trial....
Tesla gigafactory in New York infested with bed bugs
Tesla workers at a gigafactory in South Buffalo, NY, claim the plant is infested with bed bugs — and that management has sprayed the facility with toxic chemicals that are...
Amazon cutting ‘several hundred’ jobs at Alexa unit: report
Amazon on Friday announced it is trimming jobs at its Alexa voice assistant unit, citing shifting business priorities and a greater focus on generative artificial intelligence. The cuts affect several hundred...
YouTube’s new AI tool creates music with vocals of popular artists
YouTube announced a new AI tool that generates music tracks sung by a popular artists like John Legend and Demi Lovato — although some critics bashed it as the latest...
The Case for Using AI to Log Your Every Living Moment
People know Otter.ai as one of the AI-driven transcription services that have popped up over the past few years, automatically converting spoken words in interviews and meetings into text. The...
iPhone hack for ‘unlimited’ battery life: ‘Never run out’
Everyone knows the stress of hoping you have enough battery life on your phone to last you the day. Once you get that “low power” pop-up, it’s practically game over....
Google DeepMind’s AI Pop Star Clone Will Freak You Out
Even if you didn’t watch last weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, you still probably saw it. You may already even know what “it” I’m talking about: Timothée Chalamet, and...
Text-to-image AI models can be tricked into generating disturbing images
Popular text-to-image AI models can be prompted to ignore their safety filters and generate disturbing images. A group of researchers managed to get both Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s...
Elon Musk backpedals after calling antisemitic X post ‘the actual truth’
Elon Musk faced new accusations of being antisemitic after endorsing a post on his social media platform X that claimed Jewish communities promote “hatred against whites.” “You have said the...
IBM suspends ads on X after ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content: ‘Unacceptable situation’
IBM said Thursday it had immediately suspended all advertising on Elon Musk-owned X after a report found its ads were placed next to content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The...
How Lina Khan may have screwed up Amazon antitrust case
Lina Khan has gotten sloppy with her big antitrust case against Amazon, according to critics – and some fear her alleged screwups will enable Jeff Bezos’s e-commerce giant to wiggle...
Why video gaming isn’t always a red flag in a partner
ESC + R = Escape the red flag. Emily Cooper, a licensed clinical social worker based in Utah and Washington, has revealed that dating video gamers isn’t always a red...
Hyundai cars to be sold on Amazon starting next year
Amazon will begin selling Hyundai vehicles online in the US starting next year, the two companies said Thursday. Customers will be able to shop for, equip and buy a car at Amazon.com and...
TikTok shredded as Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ gets viral praise: ‘Terrorist propaganda’
The text of an inflammatory “letter to America” from 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden has gone viral on TikTok and drawn praise from young users – and US lawmakers from...
