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...
Google at ACL 2023
Posted by Malaya Jules, Program Manager, Google This week, the 61st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), a premier conference covering a broad spectrum of research areas...
Elizabeth Holmes gets prison term shortened by 2 years
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes’s prison sentence has been slashed by two years, according to updated Bureau of Prisons records According to Holmes’ inmate information on the Bureau of Prisons’...
Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
Stand-up comic Sarah Silverman has failed separate lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta, claiming copyright infringement after their AI models allegedly used her content for training without her permission. Silverman, along...
How AI Can Make Gaming Better for All Players
When Google revealed Project Gameface, the company was proud to show off a hands-free, AI-powered gaming mouse that, according to its announcement, “enables people to control a computer’s cursor using...
Meta’s Threads surpasses 100 million users in 5 days
Threads, the new “Twitter killer” app rolled out by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has surpassed 100 million users in less than a week while Elon Musk’s micro-blogging site has seen...
Meta Ran a Giant Experiment in Governance. Now It’s Turning to AI
Late last month, Meta quietly announced the results of an ambitious, near-global deliberative “democratic” process to inform decisions around the company’s responsibility for the metaverse it is creating. This was...
