Sam Altman Officially Returns to OpenAI—With a New Board Seat for Microsoft
Sam Altman marked his formal return as CEO helm of OpenAI today in a company memo that confirmed changes to the company’s board including a new non-voting seat for the...
What does the future hold for generative AI?
Speaking at the “Generative AI: Shaping the Future” symposium on Nov. 28, the kickoff event of MIT’s Generative AI Week, keynote speaker and iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks warned attendees against...
An AI Dreamed Up 380,000 New Materials. The Next Challenge Is Making Them
The robotic line cooks were deep in their recipe, toiling away in a room tightly packed with equipment. In one corner, an articulated arm selected and mixed ingredients, while another...
Google DeepMind’s new AI tool helped create more than 700 new materials
From EV batteries to solar cells to microchips, new materials can supercharge technological breakthroughs. But discovering them usually takes months or even years of trial-and-error research. Google DeepMind hopes to...
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets
You don’t need to know how to code to create your own AI chatbot. Since the start of November—shortly before the chaos at the company unfolded—OpenAI has let anyone build...
Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don’t Want to Join OpenAI’s All-Male Board
“It’s repulsive to me,” says Gebru. “I honestly think there’s more of a chance that I would go back to Google—I mean, they won’t have me and I won’t have...
Amazon’s Answer to ChatGPT Is a Workplace Assistant Called Q
Q uses a range of different artificial intelligence models under the hood, including Amazon’s own Titan large language model and LLMs built by Cohere and Anthropic, two well-funded startups competing...
Amazon looks for more Miami office space after Bezos’ Florida move
Amazon is reportedly eyeing more office space in Miami after Jeff Bezos announced earlier this month that he’d be leaving his longtime Seattle home and decamping to the Sunshine State....
I used to work at Apple — every iPhone user should know these hacks
As much time as Americans spend staring at our devices — 44 years of our lives, reportedly — we should at least know how to use all its features. Lucky...
Sports Illustrated scrubs AI-generated content after being called out for using deep fakes
Sports Illustrated scrubbed its site of AI-generated content that included bylines and photos for authors that don’t exist, according to a report. The publication — once home to authors like...
Mark Zuckerberg vetoes proposal to ban plastic surgery filters: lawsuit
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg allegedly rejected a proposal to ban filters from his social media sites that simulate the effects of plastic surgery despite the harm the body-altering technology poses...
This quick fix will make a Wi-Fi router give your device ‘VIP treatment’
Here’s a quick fix for your lagging Wi-Fi woes. Tired of your favorite TV show lagging on its stream? Or perhaps you’re always the one dropping out of conference calls...
Millions of underage Instagram users are an ‘open secret’ at Meta: lawsuit
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other top brass at the social media giant were well aware that millions of users on Instagram are underage, according to newly released claims in...
Ex-Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao ordered to stay in US for time being
Former Binance chief Changpeng Zhao cannot leave the US for the time being, a federal judge said Monday, after the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange pleaded guilty to...
iPhone iOS17 NameDrop feature sparks safety concerns
Apple customers have been slowly figuring out the newest features from the iOS17 update — including one that has raised safety concerns. Similar to AirDrop, the new-to-iPhone feature NameDrop allows...
