Disney, Netflix go on AI hiring sprees as strikes drag on
Help wanted. As the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists strikes drag on — and with the use of AI being a...
Fired Twitter exec who slept on office floor says Elon Musk has ‘painful’ lack of empathy
The fired Twitter executive who went viral for sleeping on the office floor last year has broken her silence on mercurial boss Elon Musk — describing him as a brilliant...
Big AI Won’t Stop Election Deepfakes With Watermarks
In May, a fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral on Twitter. It was soon followed by images seeming to show explosions near the White House as...
25 craziest TikTok challenges and the ordeals they’ve caused
Humanity has hit Tok bottom. Created in 2016 as a portal for short, humorous clips, TikTok has recently become synonymous with something far more sinister: viral internet challenges. Pull up...
More Battlefield AI Will Make the Fog of War More Deadly
The United States military is not the unrivaled force it once was, but Alexandr Wang, CEO of startup Scale AI, told a congressional committee last week that it could establish...
Hollywood’s Strikes Will Disrupt Podcasts, Games, and TikTok Too
Back in May, the Writers Guild of America went on strike—partly over disputes about compensation, and partly over fears that studios could use generative artificial intelligence tools to replace human...
Meta’s Reality Labs has lost over $21B since start of 2022
Meta’s second-quarter earnings showed that Reality Labs, its virtual and augmented reality development business, has lost a staggering $21.3 billion since January 2022 — and executives warned the bleeding will...
To Watermark AI, It Needs Its Own Alphabet
Only a few months ago, AI content was easy to spot: unnatural inflections in speech, weird earlobes in photos, bland language in writing. This is no longer the case. In...
Galaxy Z Flip 5, Fold 5
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled two foldable smartphones as it continues to bet on devices with bending screens, a budding market that has yet to fully take off because of...
GM, BMW, Honda, Mercedes to launch EV charging network in challenge to Tesla
Seven major automakers say they’re joining forces to build a North American electric vehicle charging network that would rival Tesla’s and nearly double the number of fast-charging plugs in the...
Twitter X logo will evolve over time after debut
X owner Elon Musk is already tinkering with the platform’s updated black-and-white logo design — days after he abandoned Twitter’s iconic blue bird symbol. Musk, 52, briefly unveiled a version...
Meta expects higher ad spending after Q2 of $32B in revenue
Meta Platforms forecast third-quarter revenue above market expectations on Wednesday, sending shares up on the suggestion that it anticipated higher ad spending as a result of an improving macroeconomic environment. The company...
In search of a generalizable method for source-free domain adaptation
Posted by Eleni Triantafillou, Research Scientist, and Malik Boudiaf, Student Researcher, Google Deep learning has recently made tremendous progress in a wide range of problems and applications, but models often...
This new tool could protect your pictures from AI manipulation
Remember that selfie you posted last week? There’s currently nothing stopping someone taking it and editing it using powerful generative AI systems. Even worse, thanks to the sophistication of these...
Twitter fact-check disappears from Elon Musk post linking Bronny James cardiac arrest to COVID vaccine
A Twitter message fact-checking Elon Musk after he raised the prospect that the COVID vaccine may have played a role in USC basketball standout Bronny James suffering cardiac arrest appeared...
