FTC opens probe into ChatGPT maker OpenAI
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, on claims it has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and...
‘We’re all going to die’
A prominent Silicon Valley researcher is sounding the alarm over the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, saying that the consequences for humans could be dire. “I think we’re not ready,...
Lina Khan interrogated by GOP over Big Tech regulation
The chair of the Federal Trade Commission defended her aggressive legal strategy toward the country’s biggest technology companies Thursday as House Republicans charged that the agency has become overzealous and...
A new way to look at data privacy
Imagine that a team of scientists has developed a machine-learning model that can predict whether a patient has cancer from lung scan images. They want to share this model with...
Dukaan CEO fires 90% of support staff in favor of AI chatbot
The CEO of an India-based e-commerce company said it was “absolutely” necessary to fire 90% of his customer support team because an artificial intelligence-backed chatbot outperformed them — slashing response...
‘American Psycho’-inspired app to nab table at hotspots sparks fear
A restaurant-booking app that allows both the well-heeled and the wannabe-seen to score a table at some of the most coveted restaurants comes with a high price – and plenty...
NBA, Apple have ‘Vision’ for how to watch games in the future
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Thursday said the league is working with Apple to bring a tech-enhanced viewing experience to its $3,499 Vision Pro virtual reality headset. During an exclusive...
Symbol tuning improves in-context learning in language models
Posted by Jerry Wei, Student Researcher, and Denny Zhou, Principal Scientist, Google Research A key feature of human intelligence is that humans can learn to perform new tasks by reasoning...
Twitter asks federal judge to terminate FTC settlement
Twitter wants a federal court to terminate a $150 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that was struck last year after Lina Khan’s agency accused the tech giant of...
Mark Zuckerberg looks ripped in photo alongside MMA fighters
Mark Zuckerberg showed off his ripped physique in his latest Instagram post alongside two of today’s most successful MMA fighters. The 39-year-old Meta boss flexed his six pack while standing...
Making sense of all things data
Data, and more specifically using data, is not a new concept, but it remains an elusive one. It comes with terms like “the internet of things” (IoT) and “the cloud,”...
Chipotle rolls out new robot called Autocado to take on avocados
Chipotle is trying out a new worker that’s angling to prepare the chain’s famed avocado twice as fast as the current pace. The Mexican grill on Wednesday introduced Autocado, a...
How an “AI-tocracy” emerges
Many scholars, analysts, and other observers have suggested that resistance to innovation is an Achilles’ heel of authoritarian regimes. Such governments can fail to keep up with technological changes that...
Model Lisa Opie uses AI to create Glamour Bulgaria Barbie-inspired cover
She’s a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world — kind of. A model used artificial intelligence to create, for the first time ever, an entire magazine cover shoot — in...
H&R Block shared taxpayers data with Meta: lawmakers
Three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over the course of at least two years, a group of congressional...
