Teachers Are Going All In on Generative AI
Past research shows that large language models are capable of generating text harmful to some groups of people, including those who identify as Black, women, people with disabilities, and Muslims....
Arm shares soar in Nasdaq debut, valuing chip designer at $60B
Shares of SoftBank’s Arm Holdings soared 25% above their offer price in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday, giving the chip designer a valuation of $65 billion in its return to...
Apple video on climate change featuring Octavia Spencer is slammed
A short film by Apple that cast Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer as Mother Nature in which she scolds CEO Tim Cook was met with scorn and derision for “greenwashing” the tech...
Elon Musk blew out disc in neck after fighting 350-pound sumo wrestler
Elon Musk blew out a disc in his neck after trying to perform a “judo throw” on a 350-pound sumo wrestling champion during a Japanese-themed birthday party for the billionaire,...
Elon Musk appears to ‘make nice’ with Bill Gates following 18-month feud: sources
Is Elon Musk finally trying to make nice with Bill Gates? That may be the hottest speculation coming out of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s AI summit this week. Tesla’s CEO has...
Caesars Entertainment paid about $15M to hackers who stole customer Social Security numbers, other info: report
Caesars Entertainment reportedly paid roughly $15 million in an attempt to placate hackers who threatened to leak the sensitive customer data stolen during a summer cyberattack. The Las Vegas casino...
Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson says mogul ‘can burn fast and flame out’
Walter Isaacson, who has authored bestselling biographies of Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, and Albert Einstein, speaks with On The Money about his new book on Elon Musk. Isaacson, 71, gives...
Google wanted to ‘manipulate choices’ to become default search engine: behavioral expert Antonio Rangel
Google fought hard to be the default search engine on smartphones and browsers so it “can manipulate your choices,” an expert on human behavior testified for the government at the...
Sam Bankman-Fried pushed for his dad to get cast in FTX’s Larry David Super Bowl ad: report
Sam Bankman-Fried pushed for his dad to get cast in an FTX commercial featuring Larry Davif that aired during the Super Bowl — because his father was a big fan...
Battery-free flying robots use origami to change shape in midair
These could be the stuff of nightmares — if they weren’t so damn cute. Scientists at the University of Washington have developed adorable little electronic “microfliers,” the size of a...
billionaire Ken Griffin freaks out ahead of Friday film release
Ken Griffin has a few bones to pick when it comes to “Dumb Money” – among them the way the star-studded flick depicts his habits when it comes to expensive...
Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites
While all the CEOs, union bosses, and civil rights advocates were asked to raise their hands, one flaw with muzzling senators, according to critics on both sides of the proverbial...
AI just beat a human test for creativity. What does that even mean?
AI is getting better at passing tests designed to measure human creativity. In a study published in Nature Scientific Reports today, AI chatbots achieved higher average scores than humans in...
Elon Musk to meet Benjamin Netanyahu in Silicon Valley to discuss AI
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet X owner Elon Musk on Monday in Silicon Valley, an official in Netanyahu’s office said Thursday, and Musk said their talks would focus on artificial intelligence technology. Netanyahu was already scheduled...
Don’t Count on Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer to Jump-Start an AI Revolution
You’d have to be pretty brave to bet against the idea that applying more computing power and data to machine learning—a recipe that birthed ChatGPT—won’t lead to further advances of...
