Elon Musk pictured for first time with Shivon Zilis and their twins
Elon Musk was photographed for the first time with his twins alongside their mother Shivon Zilis, who also works for the mogul at his brain chip company Neuralink. The image...
Roku shares surge after plan to cut 10% of workforce, limit hiring
Roku is cutting about 10% of its workforce, or 360 people, and it will limit new hiring as it cuts costs to stem a series of quarterly losses. The streaming...
China bans government officials from using iPhones for work: report
China ordered officials at central government agencies not to use Apple’s iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work or bring them into the office, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people...
Elon Musk borrowed $1B from SpaceX in same month he bought Twitter
Elon Musk borrowed a whopping $1 billion from SpaceX back in October — the same month he purchased the social media platform then known as Twitter in a $44 billion...
AI Can Be An Extraordinary Force For Good—if It’s Contained
In a quaint Regency-era office overlooking London’s Russell Square, I cofounded a company called DeepMind with two friends, Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg, in the summer of 2010. Our goal,...
Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
It’s easy to trick the large language models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. In one experiment in February, security researchers forced Microsoft’s Bing chatbot to behave like...
Chinese AI chatbots want to be your emotional support
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. Chinese ChatGPT-like bots are having a...
Ex-Google exec says humans can use AI to create ‘more lethal pandemics’
A former Google executive who helped pioneer the company’s foray into artificial intelligence fears the technology will be used to create “more lethal pandemics.” Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and former head...
Amazon facing FTC antitrust lawsuit later this month: report
The Federal Trade Commission may file a lawsuit later this month against Amazon after the company did not offer concessions to settle antitrust claims, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing...
Meta’s return-to-office edict is here: employees back to work
Meta’s mandate for employees to return to the office for a minimum of three days a week went into affect on Tuesday — a reversal from the tech giant’s remote...
Sergey Brin, Kimbal Musk at Burning Man amid muddy exodus
Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal were reportedly among the tech moguls who were caught up in the chaos of the mad scramble to escape deadly conditions...
You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say.
In the past year, kids, teachers, and parents have had a crash course in artificial intelligence, thanks to the wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. In a knee-jerk reaction, some schools,...
Apollo the humanoid robot starts ‘moving boxes in warehouses’
A creepy robot — featuring arms, legs and two eyes, but no other facial features — has stepped up alongside actual workers in warehouses for the first time to lift heavy boxes...
Apple reportedly mulls low-cost MacBook to rival Chromebooks
Apple is reportedly working on a low-cost MacBook to compete with Google’s Chromebook — which costs a fraction of the price of the Apple device and has come to dominate...
X boss Elon Musk vows to sue ADL for $22B for ‘falsely accusing it and me of being antisemitic’
X owner Elon Musk threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League for “roughly $22 billion” after accusing the civil rights group of chasing away advertisers since he bought the social media...
