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...
Military AI’s Next Frontier: Your Work Computer
It’s probably hard to imagine that you are the target of spycraft, but spying on employees is the next frontier of military AI. Surveillance techniques familiar to authoritarian dictatorships have...
Responsible AI at Google Research: AI for Social Good
Posted by Jimmy Tobin and Katrin Tomanek, Software Engineers, Google Research, AI for Social Good Google’s AI for Social Good team consists of researchers, engineers, volunteers, and others with a...
FTC sues Amazon over Prime sign-up and cancellation process
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging the e-commerce behemoth illegally deceived customers into signing up for its Prime program and then “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel. The...
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son had a crisis of confidence that left him in tears for days
SoftBank’s billionaire CEO Masayoshi Son admitted he “had a big cry” after soul-searching last year — because he realized that he would never be able to live out his dream...
Microsoft workers willing to leave for rival firm: survey
Microsoft employees are reportedly eyeing the exits in the wake of mass layoffs and other unpopular moves at the tech giant. Just 47% of Microsoft employees said they would remain...
