NYU prof says AI relationships, porn are stunting young men
A New York University professor is sounding the alarm about a looming social crisis for young men driven by the rise of “AI sex bots” and excessive consumption of pornography....
Meta’s Twitter killer? Brands shun Threads, traffic plunges
Many of the nation’s top brands and celebrities have stopped posting on Meta’s new social network Threads — billed as a “Twitter killer” at the time of its splashy summer...
Canadian publishers see revenue plunge as Meta blocks news
Small and mid-size publishers across Canada are suffering sharp drops in traffic and revenue as Meta has been locked in a standoff with the government over a law requiring that...
Want to be an influencer? There’s a college degree for that
Anyone can be an influencer now — luck of the algorithm be damned. A first-of-its-kind college major will now teach spotlight hopefuls the art of influencing and content creation in...
IBM chief won’t ‘get rid of’ a single programmer because of AI
The head of IBM tempered fears about the havoc AI is expected to wreak in the workplace, saying he won’t “get rid of a single one” of the company’s programmers...
The New AI Photo Tricks on the Pixel 8 Are Blowing My Mind
I watched as the spokesperson selected a person’s face and cycled through other versions of the face from recent images and other frames. Just choose the face you want (a...
Google Assistant Finally Gets a Generative AI Glow-Up
David Ferrucci, CEO of AI company Elemental Cognition and previously the lead on IBM’s Watson project, says language models have removed a great deal of the complexity from building useful...
Hannah Diamond Has Cracked the Code of Using AI for Music
Since last November, when OpenAI unleashed the world-conquering ChatGPT, artificial intelligence has stalked creatives like a malignant doppelgänger. You, a presumably human artist, return to work, and AI is there,...
AI Chatbots Are Learning to Spout Authoritarian Propaganda
When you ask ChatGPT “What happened in China in 1989?” the bot describes how the Chinese army massacred thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. But ask the same question...
How to Be Extremely Online and Influence People
Lauren: Our guest this week is Taylor Lorenz. Taylor is a prominent technology journalist at The Washington Post, and she’s the author of a new book called Extremely Online: The...
Elon Musk ordered to face fraud lawsuit for late disclosure of Twitter stake
Elon Musk was ordered by a US judge to face most of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded former Twitter shareholders last year by waiting too long to disclose that he had invested...
TikTok probed for hiring of execs from China-based ByteDance
Two US senators said they were investigating short video sharing app TikTok’s reported decision recently to hire several high-level executives from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, a...
Artificial intelligence used to cook ‘perfect’ steak in 3 minutes
AI, meet A-1. Home grill chefs could soon be cooking perfect steaks in less than 90 seconds — providing they can afford what’s been dubbed the “world’s first AI-powered grill,” manufactured...
FCC hits Dish Network with $150K fine in first-ever space debris penalty
Dish Network has been slapped with a historic $150,000 fine by the Federal Communications Commission for failing to properly deorbit one of its broadcast satellites, creating orbital debris. The FCC...
Ex-CNN anchor Campbell Brown leaving Meta as it shuns news
Veteran TV news anchor Campbell Brown will step down as Meta’s head of news partnerships, the company said Tuesday — another sign Facebook’s parent company is pivoting away from promoting...
