Instacart reveals revenue surge in IPO filing
Grocery delivery app Instacart on Friday revealed a 31% jump in revenue for the first half of the year as it made public its filing for a stock market flotation in New...
Europe Union is cracking down on Big Tech
Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online lives change. People in the 27-nation European Union can alter some of what shows up when they search, scroll, and share on the biggest social...
AI Can’t Read Books. It’s Reviewing Them Anyway
Now that we’ve all had experience with large language models, their limitations are all too visible. Yes, they can write. But their prose doesn’t explode in the mind like the...
Scientists found 1,140 AI bots on X creating fake profiles
Scientists revealed in a study last month that X, formerly known as Twitter, has a real bot problem, with about 1,140 artificial intelligence-powered accounts that “post machine-generated content and steal...
How to compare a noisy quantum processor to a classical computer
Posted by Sergio Boixo and Vadim Smelyanskiy, Principal Scientists, Google Quantum AI Team A full-scale error-corrected quantum computer will be able to solve some problems that are impossible for classical...
Roblox ‘illegally facilitated child gambling’: lawsuit
Roblox, the online video game maker of popular hits such as “Murder Mystery 2,” “Adopt Me,” and “Slap Battles” is being sued by the parents of two minors who allege...
Supporting sustainability, digital health, and the future of work
The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology has selected three new research projects that will receive support from the initiative. The research projects aim to accelerate progress...
Teaching language models to reason algorithmically
Posted by Hattie Zhou, Graduate Student at MILA, Hanie Sedghi, Research Scientist, Google Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-3 and PaLM, have shown impressive progress in recent years, which...
Why Sam Bankman-Fried likely won’t get Adderall while locked up in Brooklyn jail
Jailed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will likely have to survive without access to Adderall while behind bars at the infamous Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, according to federal prison guidelines....
Nvidia Chip Shortages Leave AI Startups Scrambling for Computing Power
Cloud computing providers are very aware that their customers are struggling for capacity. Surging demand has “caught the industry off guard a bit,” says Chetan Kapoor, a director of product...
How to help high schoolers prepare for the rise of artificial intelligence
Should artificial intelligence be allowed to make care decisions for patients? Though the future of AI may conjure up doomsday visions of robots and computers intent on rendering human existence...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX sued by DOJ over asylees, refugees hiring
The Justice Department sued Elon Musk-owned rocket and satellite company SpaceX on Thursday for allegedly discriminating against asylum seekers and refugees in hiring. “The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018...
You Are Not Responsible for Your Own Online Privacy
In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg told the audience at a TechCrunch awards ceremony that young people—especially social media users—no longer cared about privacy. “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing...
T-Mobile US to slash 5,000 jobs as cheaper plans weigh on costs
T-Mobile US said Thursday it would reduce its workforce by about 7% by cutting 5,000 jobs in the US as the wireless carrier grapples with rising costs related to adding more subscribers...
The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI
A new analysis shows that “open source” AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways. Source
