AI copilot enhances human precision for safer aviation
Imagine you’re in an airplane with two pilots, one human and one computer. Both have their “hands” on the controllers, but they’re always looking out for different things. If they’re...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta cutting jobs in Reality Labs division
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is planning to lay off employees on Wednesday in the unit of its metaverse-oriented Reality Labs division focused on creating custom silicon, two sources familiar with the matter...
TikTok owner ByteDance’s revenue growth has slowed sharply: report
TikTok parent ByteDance — the privately-held Chinese company behind the wildly popular short-form video app — saw its revenue growth slow last year, according to internal financial documents obtained by...
Voice Actors Are Bracing to Compete With Talking AI
Quincy Surasmith is a radio journalist and actor, but you may also hear his voice and never realize it. That’s because he’s been the voice of Thai-speaking cartoons, chattering background...
AI Algorithms Are Biased Against Skin With Yellow Hues
On skin color, Xiang says the efforts to develop additional and improved measures will be unending. “We need to keep on trying to make progress,” she says. Monk says different...
Why Big Tech’s bet on AI assistants is so risky
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Since the beginning of the generative...
AI Watermarks Are No Match for Attackers
Soheil Feizi considers himself an optimistic person. But the University of Maryland computer science professor is blunt when he sums up the current state of watermarking AI images. “We don’t...
Here is the real reason why you shouldn’t use your phone on the toilet
Hold the phone — or don’t, actually. Taking your cell phone into the bathroom to entertain yourself on the toilet may not be such a good idea, according to a...
AI Van Gogh talks suicide, struggles with visitors to Paris museum
Lend him an ear. The post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh provides posthumous insight into his life and work as part of a new exhibit that draws on advanced, generative artificial...
San Francisco tech workers rent $700-a-month ‘sleeping pods’
Tech workers in the San Francisco Bay Area who can’t afford soaring rents have instead opted to stay in $700-a-month “sleeping pods” — 4-foot-tall, semi-open boxes that can fit a...
Google default search engine deals make user choice ‘completely bogus,’ Microsoft CEO Nadella says
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified Monday that Google’s multibillion-dollar default search engine deals have played a key role in obtaining a dominant hold on the market – backing one of...
Elon Musk’s X hit with trademark lawsuit from marketing agency
X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, was sued in federal court in Florida on Monday by a legal-marketing company that claims the social media giant’s new name infringes its trademark...
Church uses ChatGPT AI for ‘meaningful’ Sunday morning worship
Need to teach the holy trinity? Just use ChatGPT. A Methodist church in North Austin, Texas turned to such technology as an “unorthodox” way to teach the good book along...
A more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
A strategy for cellular reprogramming involves using targeted genetic interventions to engineer a cell into a new state. The technique holds great promise in immunotherapy, for instance, where researchers could...
Elon Musk’s Tesla misses delivery estimates amid production delays
Elon Musk’s Tesla missed market estimates for third-quarter deliveries on Monday as planned upgrades at its factories forced production halts. The electric-vehicle maker handed over 435,059 vehicles in the three months to Sept....
