Netflix starts password sharing crackdown in US
Streaming giant Netflix on Tuesday began its planned crackdown on password sharing in the United States, alerting users that their accounts cannot be shared for free with people outside of their...
Google Will Soon Show You AI-Generated Ads
Google has spent the past few weeks promoting generative AI tools that can summarize search results for users, help them draft essays, and swap out overcast skies for sunshine in otherwise perfect family...
Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages
Meta has built AI models that can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages—a tenfold increase on what’s currently available. It’s a significant step toward preserving languages that...
Apple inks multibillion-dollar deal with chipmaker Broadcom
Apple on Tuesday said it has entered a multibillion-dollar deal with chipmaker Broadcom to use chips made in the United States. Under the multi-year deal, Broadcom will develop 5G radio frequency...
The Dire Defect of ‘Multilingual’ AI Content Moderation
Three parts Bosnian text. Thirteen parts Kurdish. Fifty-five parts Swahili. Eleven thousand parts English. This is part of the data recipe for Facebook’s new large language model, which the company claims...
Suddenly, everyone wants to talk about how to regulate AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It feels as though a switch has...
Researchers use AI to identify similar materials in images
A robot manipulating objects while, say, working in a kitchen, will benefit from understanding which items are composed of the same materials. With this knowledge, the robot would know to...
Black Wolf ride-sharing app has armed drivers
The surge in violent crime nationwide has inspired a former bodyguard to launch a ride-sharing app that features armed drivers — with plans for a Big Apple launch within the...
TikTok sues Montana after state bans app
TikTok on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the state of Montana’s new ban on use of the Chinese-owned short-video app. ByteDance-owned TikTok argues the ban, which would take effect on...
Author uses AI generators, including ChatGPT, to write nearly 100 books in less than a year
A science fiction author has used artificial intelligence generators, including ChatGPT, to write and illustrate nearly 100 books in less than a year. Tim Boucher said he utilized the smart...
AI-generated photo of fake Pentagon explosion sparks brief stock selloff
A purportedly AI-generated photo of a fake explosion at the Pentagon spread rapidly on social media on Monday – prompting mass confusion among users and a brief selloff in the...
EU slaps Meta with $1.3 billion fine over data privacy concerns
The European Union on Monday fined Meta a record $1.3 billion for transferring European users’ data to the US. The penalty marks the largest since the EU implemented harsher data...
Supercharge Your ChatGPT Prompts With Auto-GPT | WIRED
Next, you need to download Auto-GPT from GitHub: Follow the link to the latest release and download the zip file you find there. When you’ve unzipped the archive, duplicate the...
Using data to write songs for progress
A three-year recipient of MIT’s Emerson Classical Vocal Scholarships, senior Ananya Gurumurthy recalls getting ready to step onto the Carnegie Hall stage to sing a Mozart opera that she once...
Smart tech tips to make summer travel cheaper and less stressful
Travel prices are up about 18% compared to pre-pandemic costs. Then there are the flight cancellations and extra-long waits to contend with. To help, I put together a list of...
