Marvel’s ‘Secret Invasion’ AI Scandal Is Strangely Hopeful
Like many fans this week, you may have noticed something odd about the opening credits of Secret Invasion, Marvel’s new show. Amidst all the Skrull green, there is something very...
Robotaxis are here. It’s time to decide what to do about them
In some San Francisco neighborhoods, at certain hours of the night, it seems as if one in 10 cars on the road has no driver behind the wheel. These are...
Gov. Abbott weighs in on Zuckerberg Musk cage match
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took to Twitter to weigh in on a potential battle of the billionaires between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. What began as banter on Twitter between Musk,...
Deepfake Porn Reveals a ‘Pervert’s Dilemma’
April 10 was a very bad day in the life of celebrity gamer and YouTuber Atrioc (Brandon Ewing). Ewing was broadcasting one of his usual Twitch livestreams when his browser...
I’m a money expert — my clever hacks for free iCloud storage
There are apps for that. TikTok user Sarah Adekola, who often shares money-saving tips, is advising Apple product users to never pay for additional iCloud storage as there are cheaper,...
Samuel L. Jackson refuses to be replaced by AI in movies after he dies
The ghost of Samuel L. Jackson will not be haunting a theater near you. The 74-year-old actor recently shared in a wide ranging interview, that he does not approve of...
Facebook ending news sharing in Canada as new law forces payment to publishers
Meta Platforms said Thursday it would end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada after parliament approved legislation designed to compel internet giants to pay publishers for news....
Ex-Disney powerhouse Zenia Mucha hired by TikTok
Disney’s former longtime communications chief Zenia Mucha was hired by TikTok on Thursday as the Chinese-owned social media platform seeks to fend off political pressure to ban the app. TikTok...
Ina Garten’s Facebook hacked — to post Olive Garden recipe
Chef Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Facebook page was hacked last week, and it was kinda a big dill. Instead of the recipe for the 75-year-old culinarian’s signature “engagement chicken” or...
MIT-Pillar AI Collective announces first seed grant recipients
The MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced its first six grant recipients. Students, alumni, and postdocs working on a broad range of topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science...
SoundStorm: Efficient parallel audio generation
Posted by Zalán Borsos, Research Software Engineer, and Marco Tagliasacchi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research The recent progress in generative AI unlocked the possibility of creating new content in...
TikTok Chief Operating Officer V Pappas stepping down
TikTok Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas is stepping down after five years with the short-video company owned by China’s ByteDance, according to an email seen by Reuters on Thursday. In an email to staff, Pappas said they...
The Last AI Boom Didn’t Kill Jobs. Feel Better?
If ChatGPT and generative AI live up to even a tenth of the hype surrounding them, wide-scale job losses might seem inevitable. But new economic data shows that the last...
The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI
A significant proportion of people paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new study has found. It takes an incredible amount of data...
Mark Zuckerberg accepts Elon Musk’s cage fight: ‘Send me the location’
Mark Zuckerberg is ready for a throwdown. After Twitter owner Musk, 51, challenged the Facebook founder — who recently won his first amateur Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament — to a “cage match” this...
