Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2
When Meta released Llama 2, a powerful artificial intelligence model similar to the one behind ChatGPT, last month, it made it possible for developers, startups, and researchers to play with...
AI chip giant Nvidia’s profit surge makes CEO $4.2B richer overnight
Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang became $4.2 billion richer overnight after his software company crushed Wall Street’s second-quarter earnings expectations by billions, sending its stock surging by as much as...
Brain Implants That Help Paralyzed People Speak Just Broke New Records
Ann, a stroke survivor, can communicate using a digital avatar that decodes her intended speech. Photograph: Noah Berger/UCSF There are trade-offs to both group’s approaches. Implanted electrodes, like the ones...
AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
Imagine you want to carry a large, heavy box up a flight of stairs. You might spread your fingers out and lift that box with both hands, then hold it...
Nvidia rides AI, ChatGPT boom as Q2 sales skyrocket: ‘Drop the mic moment’
Nvidia far exceeded expectations with its quarterly revenue forecast on Wednesday as an artificial-intelligence boom fueled demand for its chips and said it would buy back $25 billion in stock, sending...
Elon Musk slams Facebook for ‘manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth’
X owner Elon Musk on Wednesday accused Facebook of “manipulating the public” in the latest escalation in the ongoing war of words with his possible “cage match” foe Mark Zuckerberg....
Controversial new AI app allows you to text with Jesus – and Satan
It’s not every day that the spiritual realm intersects with smartphone tech. But in the era of chatbots and AI, even the biblical figures aren’t immune. Welcome to the world of...
SMART launches research group to advance AI, automation, and the future of work
The Singapore MIT-Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, has launched a new interdisciplinary research group aimed at tackling key social and institutional challenges around the...
Amazon workers quit instead of moving to ‘central hub’: report
Amazon employees who have been working from home are reportedly deciding to quit rather than comply with the Big Tech firm’s demand they relocate to one of the company’s “central...
Kids Are Going Back to School. So Is ChatGPT
Last winter, the unveiling of OpenAI’s alarmingly sophisticated chatbot sent educators into a tailspin. Generative AI, it was feared, would enable rampant cheating and plagiarism, and even make high school...
Elon Musk’s ‘escalated’ ketamine use could be causing erratic behavior, New Yorker exposé suggests
Elon Musk’s allegedly “escalated” use of the drug ketamine could explain his penchant for erratic decision-making at X and his other companies, according to a New Yorker exposé about the...
Microsoft looks to ease UK antitrust worries over Activision deal
Microsoft said it will allow Ubisoft Entertainment to distribute Activision Blizzard games — a move intended to win approval from British antitrust regulators who have held up the company’s $75...
Elon Musk to hide headlines, text from news articles shared on X to ‘improve the esthetics’
News articles posted to Elon Musk’s X will no longer display headlines or text, the billionaire confirmed Tuesday — the latest overhaul to the platform formerly known as Twitter. Musk...
Google sued for information over rights to NFL’s ‘Sunday Ticket’ package
Alphabet’s Google has been hit with a lawsuit in US federal court seeking information about its multibillion-dollar deal with the National Football League to exclusively hold the broadcast rights for the “Sunday...
Machine-learning system based on light could yield more powerful, efficient large language models
ChatGPT has made headlines around the world with its ability to write essays, email, and computer code based on a few prompts from a user. Now an MIT-led team reports...
