AI teddy bears are here
In the not-so-distant future, you could walk in on a teddy bear reading a bedtime story to your child. And it wouldn’t be just any story — it’d be a...
Apple will permanently delete photos in July — how to keep yours safe
A picture is worth a thousand words — as long as it doesn’t get deleted. Apple announced it will permanently do away with the My Photo Stream album next month....
Microsoft works slam CEO Satya Nadella’s ‘landmark’ year claim
Some angry Microsoft employees reportedly blasted their boss Satya Nadella on Thursday after he shared a message touting a “landmark year” at the tech giant — even as executives withheld...
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg fight may happen in Colosseum
For billionaires about to tussle, we salute you! Rome’s famous Colosseum — the site of of gladiator battles and Christians being tossed to lions — may serve as the arena...
Educating national security leaders on artificial intelligence
Understanding artificial intelligence and how it relates to matters of national security has become a top priority for military and government leaders in recent years. A new three-day custom program...
Apple hits $3 trillion in market value as new gadget releases loom
Apple’s market value crossed the $3 trillion mark in early Friday trading as investors look ahead to the highly-scrutinized releases like the iPhone 15 and the Vision Pro mixed-reality headset....
Researchers teach an AI to write better chart captions
Chart captions that explain complex trends and patterns are important for improving a reader’s ability to comprehend and retain the data being presented. And for people with visual disabilities, the...
Advertisers demand billions in refunds from YouTube over skippable ads
YouTube advertisers demanded refunds from the Google-owned video sharing service after a study found viewers were allowed to entirely avoid commercials that play imperceptibly on third-party sites, violating the company’s...
On-device diffusion plugins for conditioned text-to-image generation
Posted by Yang Zhao and Tingbo Hou, Software Engineers, Core ML In recent years, diffusion models have shown great success in text-to-image generation, achieving high image quality, improved inference performance,...
Joonko seemingly lied about working with American Express, PayPal
Joonko, the DEI-focused tech startup whose founder is accused of duping investors, appears to have lied about working with several US corporate icons — even as it raised tens of...
Announcing the first Machine Unlearning Challenge
Posted by Fabian Pedregosa and Eleni Triantafillou, Research Scientists, Google Deep learning has recently driven tremendous progress in a wide array of applications, ranging from realistic image generation and impressive...
Amazon poaching FTC officials ahead of antitrust lawsuit
Amazon is poaching a slew of staffers from the Federal Trade Commission as it gears up for an epic antitrust battle with the US agency, sources told On The Money....
The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code
In June 2021, GitHub announced Copilot, a kind of auto-complete for computer code powered by OpenAI’s text-generation technology. It provided an early glimpse of the impressive potential of generative artificial...
Elon Musk’s dad shares photo amid ‘dwarf adult human’ AI image
The father of tech titan Elon Musk offered up a rare image of his son when he was a kid after an AI-generated photo of the future Tesla mogul made...
Bill Gates’ office asked female job candidates about sex histories: report
Bill Gates’s private office reportedly asked some female job candidates about their sexual histories — including what kind of pornography they liked, whether they ever had extramarital affairs and even...
