Open-sourcing generative AI
The views expressed in this video are those of the speakers, and do not represent any endorsement or sponsorship. Is the open-source approach, which has democratized access to software, ensured...
Google cracks down on internal message board over Israel-Gaza debate
Google will crack down on posts to its popular internal messaging board to cool the heated debate by employees over the ongoing Israel-Gaza war. The Silicon Valley-based tech giant’s Memegen...
Taking AI to the next level in manufacturing
Few technological advances have generated as much excitement as AI. In particular, generative AI seems to have taken business discourse to a fever pitch. Many manufacturing leaders express optimism: Research...
Snapchat walks back friend-ranking feature blamed for ruining relationships
Snapchat demoted a controversial feature that ranks friends based on their relationship to the user after concerns that it was fueling insecurity among its teen-heavy audience. The social media site...
Elon Musk ‘may have done more to financially impair’ X than to help it
Outspoken X owner Elon Musk admitted that his social media posts “may have done more to financially impair the company than to help it” in a lawsuit lodged against the...
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
Students have submitted more than 22 million papers that may have used generative AI in the past year, new data released by plagiarism detection company Turnitin shows. A year ago,...
Donald Trump’s stake in Truth Social parent drops to $3B after shares continue to plummet
Shares of Donald Trump’s media and technology firm fell as much as 12% on Monday, extending a selloff that has now reduced the value of his stake in the operator...
Tesla settles case over fatal 2018 crash of Apple engineer involving Autopilot
Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a car crash which killed an Apple engineer in 2018 after his car veered off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday....
Extracting hydrogen from rocks
It’s commonly thought that the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen, exists mainly alongside other elements — with oxygen in water, for example, and with carbon in methane. But...
Elon Musk predicts AI will be smarter than the smartest human by next year
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday predicted development of artificial intelligence that was smarter than the smartest human probably by next year, or by 2026. In a wide-ranging interview on...
TSMC to boost computer chip production in Arizona with $11.6 billion in federal grants, loans
The US government will dole out $11.6 billion in CHIPS Act funds to Taiwan Semiconductor in order to get the world’s largest chipmaker to boost its production of the critical...
When an antibiotic fails: MIT scientists are using AI to target “sleeper” bacteria
Since the 1970s, modern antibiotic discovery has been experiencing a lull. Now the World Health Organization has declared the antimicrobial resistance crisis as one of the top 10 global public...
Gen Z ‘falling for’ ChatGPT dark alter ego DAN, ‘naughty’ fantasies
Gen Z is “falling for” ChatGPT’s dark alter ego DAN. DAN — an acronym for Do Anything Now — is a version of ChatGPT that has been jailbroken to allow...
Paddy Cosgrave back as Web Summit CEO, no comment on Israel ‘war crimes’ remarks
Paddy Cosgrave has returned to his role as CEO of the major European tech conference Web Summit – less than six months after he resigned after sparking outrage by accusing...
Tackling AI risks: Your reputation is at stake
Forget Skynet: One of the biggest risks of AI is your organization’s reputation. That means it’s time to put science-fiction catastrophizing to one side and begin thinking seriously about what...
