How to use TikTok without handing over personal data to China
I’ve been saying it for months: Get TikTok off your phone. It’s not the only China-based app you need to worry about. Temu, the app that lets you “shop like...
Elon Musk Seeks Support Against Rules on Free Speech Online
When Elon Musk arrived at VivaTech, a leading technology conference in France, his presence had an immediate effect, as event founder Maurice Levy of Publicis Groupe was quick to point...
Humans may be more likely to believe disinformation generated by AI
Disinformation generated by AI may be more convincing than disinformation written by humans, a new study suggests. The research found that people were 3% less likely to spot false tweets...
7 hidden features you can use on your computer mouse to make work way easier
No matter how long you’ve been using computers, it feels great to discover a new shortcut that makes life easier. The Windows key is a relative newcomer to keyboards, where...
FTX begins talks to relaunch international crypto exchange: report
Bankrupt FTX is moving ahead with efforts to revive its flagship international cryptocurrency exchange, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday citing CEO John Ray. The company “has begun the process of soliciting...
Gamifying medical data labeling to advance AI
When Erik Duhaime PhD ’19 was working on his thesis in MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, he noticed his wife, then a medical student, spending hours studying on apps that...
Empowering Asia’s citizens: The generative AI opportunity for government
In a recent speech, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella evoked the lofty power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate progress, prosperity, and standards of living. “This technology reaches everyone in the...
Musk trains with Lex Fridman ahead of fight with Zuckerberg
Martial arts rookie Elon Musk was pictured Tuesday sparring during an “impromptu” training session for his potential cage match with Mark Zuckerberg. Podcaster, AI researcher and Brazilian jiujitsu black belt...
How to Tackle AI—and Cheating—in the Classroom
This past spring, as I closed out my 18th year of teaching, I felt anxiety that I’d never before felt at the end of a school year. By the time...
Marc Jacobs uses AI, ChatGPT for NYC fashion show
It was over and done with in a New York minute — or three. The Marc Jacobs fall 2023 runway show took over the New York Public Library on Monday...
Richard Branson’s $450K ‘space tour’ under fire amid Titan sub tragedy
Virgin Galactic’s first commercial spaceflight, expected to launch Thursday, is drawing comparison to last week’s Titan submersible tragedy. The company, a part of billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, announced this...
Unifying image-caption and image-classification datasets with prefix conditioning
Posted by Kuniaki Saito, Student Researcher, Cloud AI Team, and Kihyuk Sohn, Research Scientist, Perception Team Pre-training visual language (VL) models on web-scale image-caption datasets has recently emerged as a...
Law targeting organized retail crime takes effect, but how much will it help?
The Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces (INFORM) for Consumers Act – a law designed to make it more difficult for organized retail crime groups to sell illicit goods through...
Elon Musk microdoses ketamine to treat depression: report
Elon Musk uses small doses of ketamine to treat depression and occasionally takes full doses of the popular club drug known as Special K when he attends parties, according to...
SBF loses bid to toss criminal charges over FTX’s collapse
A US judge on Tuesday denied Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid to have criminal charges against him thrown out, paving the way for the founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to face trial starting Oct....
