Alexa Just Got an AI Makeover
Alexa was due for an upgrade, and now it has gotten one. This week, Amazon held its annual media event where it debuted a slate of new hardware, software, and...
Confessions of a Viral AI Writer
A thought experiment occurred to me at some point, a way to disentangle AI’s creative potential from its commercial potential: What if a band of diverse, anti-capitalist writers and developers...
Palantir’s Reputation Stalks Its Bid for the UK’s National Health Data
These comments were made by Thiel in a private capacity, says Palantir’s McArdle. “Our CEO has made it clear he disagrees with them and that he wishes ‘we had a...
20 Google search tricks, hidden utilities, games and freebies
Remember when talking to yourself got you weird looks? In the air of earbuds, it’s totally normal. Using your voice can make an annoying task like writing up a letter...
School of Engineering welcomes Songyee Yoon PhD ’00 as visiting innovation scholar
Songyee Yoon PhD ’00, an entrepreneur, innovator, investor, and leader in AI and the gaming industry, has been appointed as a School of Engineering visiting innovation scholar for the 2023-24...
Google sued after dad Philip Paxson following navigation app directions drowned after plunging off collapsed bridge
The family of a North Carolina man who died after driving off a collapsed bridge as he followed directions given on Google Maps is suing the tech giant for negligence,...
AI model creator defends beauty standards: same as airbrushing
Don’t blame AI for mainstream beauty standards becoming even more unrealistic before of our very eyes. The creator and agent who represents a popular, artificially intelligent social media influencer is...
CS Disco CEO Kiwi Camara loses $110 million after ‘groping employee’
A tech CEO and Harvard prodigy forfeited a $110 million pay package after he abruptly quit the firm he founded following accusations that he assaulted a female employee and shoved...
What an AI-Generated Medieval Village Means for the Future of Art
Where does art begin and end? The question is at the center of a debate that roiled X (formerly known as Twitter) this month after an AI-generated image of a...
Google raised ad prices without telling advertisers: exec
A current Google executive testified that the company has silently raised ad prices within its search results in order to hit revenue goals — and that the stealth changes resulted...
OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 Is an Art Generator Powered by ChatGPT
This image, rendered by Dall-E 3, shows how using ChatGPT to fill in a prompt produces a more coherent and sophisticated image. It might normally require a huge amount of...
Make Machine Learning Work for You
The enthusiasm for AI and its applications is reaching a nadir, according to an August 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle press release, where generative AI is nearly perched atop the category...
Biden DOJ ‘investigating Elon Musk, Tesla over secret glass house project’
The Justice Department has reportedly expanded an investigation into Tesla CEO Elon Musk to determine whether the company failed to disclose personal benefits that were extended to him, including purported...
Amazon Upgrades Alexa for the ChatGPT Era
When Amazon launched the Alexa virtual assistant nine years ago, its ability to decode voice commands to set a timer or play a song seemed almost magical. Today, the bar...
The deepfake avatars who want to sell you everything
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Writing about China, a question I...
