Fired Twitter workers demand Elon Musk pay $500M in severance
Twitter on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk...
Generative AI imagines new protein structures
Biology is a wondrous yet delicate tapestry. At the heart is DNA, the master weaver that encodes proteins, responsible for orchestrating the many biological functions that sustain life within the...
Elon Musk launches artificial intelligence firm xAI
Elon Musk launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team made up of engineers from the same big US technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his...
Shari Redstone, Sheryl Sandberg at Sun Valley resort, Idaho
SUN VALLEY, Idaho – The festivities are underway at Allen & Co.’s annual “summer camp for billionaires” at swank Sun Valley resort in Idaho, where business moguls kicked off their...
‘Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning’ Is the Perfect AI Panic Movie
American action movie villains have always acted as a sort of paranoia litmus test, capturing a snapshot of the particular anxieties plaguing the country and its citizens at any given...
Altman, Zaslav jet into Sun Valley for ‘summer camp for billionaires’
SUN VALLEY, Idaho – OpenAI kingpin Sam Altman and WarnerBros. Discovery boss David Zaslav joined dozens of the nation’s power players who jetted into this resort town Tuesday ahead of...
Bill Gates isn’t too scared about AI
Bill Gates has joined the chorus of big names in tech who have weighed in on the question of risk around artificial intelligence. The TL;DR? He’s not too worried, we’ve...
Microsoft’s $69B deal to buy Activision can go forward: judge
A US judge ruled on Tuesday that Microsoft may go forward with its planned acquisition of videogame maker Activision Blizzard, turning aside antitrust enforcers’ request for a preliminary injunction to temporarily stop...
An open-source gymnasium for machine learning assisted computer architecture design
Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, and Vijay Janapa Reddi, Visiting Researcher, Google Research Computer Architecture research has a long history of developing simulators and tools to evaluate and shape...
Twitter saw ‘largest usage day’ despite users flocking to Threads
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted on Monday that the social media site last week “had our largest usage day since February” despite reports that traffic has been cratering as users...
Weather forecasting is having an AI moment
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Killer Robots’ warns of AI arms race
A new kind of cold war is here. Military forces around the globe are in a covert arms race to develop terrifying new AI weaponry, a new documentary exploring the...
Meta’s new Threads app ‘murderous’ for phone batteries
Users of Meta’s new “Twitter killer” Threads gripe that the app — which has amassed more than 100 million users in less than a week since it went online —...
Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’ on tap after tough year
Fourth of July has come and gone — and that means the swanky Sun Valley ski resort in Idaho is set to host A-list moguls from across tech, media and...
3 Questions: Honing robot perception and mapping
Walking to a friend’s house or browsing the aisles of a grocery store might feel like simple tasks, but they in fact require sophisticated capabilities. That’s because humans are able...
