Apple CEO Tim Cook makes $41M after dumping 511,000 shares
Apple CEO Tim Cook — who is making $49 million in salary this year — cashed in $41 million in stock as the iPhone maker’s stock slips from recent highs,...
Google puts ‘AI in your hand’ with release of new Pixel, plans to upgrade Bard
Google on Wednesday unveiled a next-generation Pixel smartphones lineup that will be infused with more artificial intelligence tools capable of writing captions about photos that can be altered by the...
Apple releases software update to fix iPhone 15 overheating
Apple released an update to its iOS 17 software on Wednesday to resolve an overheating issue related to its latest iPhones. The iPhone 15 series, encased in a titanium shell, was...
Judge denies 3rd trial in ex-Tesla worker’s race-bias lawsuit
A black former factory worker for Tesla lost his bid on Wednesday for a third trial in his race discrimination lawsuit against the electric carmaker, after a California federal judge...
NYU prof says AI relationships, porn are stunting young men
A New York University professor is sounding the alarm about a looming social crisis for young men driven by the rise of “AI sex bots” and excessive consumption of pornography....
Meta’s Twitter killer? Brands shun Threads, traffic plunges
Many of the nation’s top brands and celebrities have stopped posting on Meta’s new social network Threads — billed as a “Twitter killer” at the time of its splashy summer...
Canadian publishers see revenue plunge as Meta blocks news
Small and mid-size publishers across Canada are suffering sharp drops in traffic and revenue as Meta has been locked in a standoff with the government over a law requiring that...
Want to be an influencer? There’s a college degree for that
Anyone can be an influencer now — luck of the algorithm be damned. A first-of-its-kind college major will now teach spotlight hopefuls the art of influencing and content creation in...
IBM chief won’t ‘get rid of’ a single programmer because of AI
The head of IBM tempered fears about the havoc AI is expected to wreak in the workplace, saying he won’t “get rid of a single one” of the company’s programmers...
The New AI Photo Tricks on the Pixel 8 Are Blowing My Mind
I watched as the spokesperson selected a person’s face and cycled through other versions of the face from recent images and other frames. Just choose the face you want (a...
Google Assistant Finally Gets a Generative AI Glow-Up
David Ferrucci, CEO of AI company Elemental Cognition and previously the lead on IBM’s Watson project, says language models have removed a great deal of the complexity from building useful...
Hannah Diamond Has Cracked the Code of Using AI for Music
Since last November, when OpenAI unleashed the world-conquering ChatGPT, artificial intelligence has stalked creatives like a malignant doppelgänger. You, a presumably human artist, return to work, and AI is there,...
AI Chatbots Are Learning to Spout Authoritarian Propaganda
When you ask ChatGPT “What happened in China in 1989?” the bot describes how the Chinese army massacred thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. But ask the same question...
How to Be Extremely Online and Influence People
Lauren: Our guest this week is Taylor Lorenz. Taylor is a prominent technology journalist at The Washington Post, and she’s the author of a new book called Extremely Online: The...
Elon Musk ordered to face fraud lawsuit for late disclosure of Twitter stake
Elon Musk was ordered by a US judge to face most of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded former Twitter shareholders last year by waiting too long to disclose that he had invested...
