Safer skies with self-flying helicopters
In late 2019, after years of studying aviation and aerospace engineering, Hector (Haofeng) Xu decided to learn to fly helicopters. At the time, he was pursuing his PhD in MIT’s...
Virgin Galactic grounded after pin ‘detaches’ on space tourism voyage
In space, no one can hear a pin drop. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic was forced to ground its rocket after a part fell off during its first space tourism flight...
Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei booted from Facebook, Instagram
Meta has suspended the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei due to what the company calls “repeated violations” of its “dangerous organizations and individuals policy.” Khamenei...
News Corp in ‘advanced’ talks with AI firms on content licensing deals, CEO says
News Corp — the media giant that owns The Post and the Wall Street Journal — is in “advanced” talks with major artificial intelligence firms to license the use of...
London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime
Staff at the transportation body ran “extensive simulations” at Willesden Green station during the trial to gather more training data, the documents say. These included members of staff falling on...
AI Tools Like GitHub Copilot Are Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next
Many people—like, say, journalists—are understandably antsy about what generative artificial intelligence might mean for the future of their profession. It doesn’t help that expert prognostications on the matter offer a...
Here’s what it will cost
Google on Thursday renamed its Bard chatbot after the new artificial intelligence that is powering it, called Gemini, and said consumers can pay for better reasoning capabilities as it vies with Microsoft to...
AI-Generated Voices in Robocalls Are Now Illegal
It’s now illegal for robocallers to use AI-generated voices thanks to a new ruling by the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday. In a unanimous decision, the FCC expands the Telephone...
Gemini Advanced Is a Central Part of Google’s Subscription Future
Google got to where it is mostly by offering free services stuffed with ads but has increasingly experimented with a different business model: Selling subscriptions for extra perks. Its first,...
How sneaky scammers are using AI to get you to buy fake Super Bowl tickets
If you’re one of the lucky fans who managed to get tickets to the Super Bowl, congratulations. You’re in for a thrilling experience. But if you’re still looking for tickets and...
How to Get Gemini Advanced, Google’s Subscription-Only AI Chatbot
Google just upgraded its AI chatbot. Access to the new Gemini Advanced chatbot is available right now through a monthly subscription to Google One, the company’s cloud backup service. With...
Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King
Google has also been running a parallel experiment with using AI to remake its core search interface, launching a generative search experience that serves up chatbot-like answers ahead of the...
Google’s Gemini is now in everything. Here’s how you can try it out.
In the biggest mass-market AI launch yet, Google is rolling out Gemini, its family of large language models, across almost all its products, from Android to the iOS Google app...
Google Rebrands Its AI Chatbot as Gemini to Take On ChatGPT
When OpenAI’s ChatGPT opened a new era in tech, the industry’s former AI champ, Google, responded by reorganizing its labs and launching a profusion of sometimes overlapping AI services. This...
Amazon’s Cloud Boss Likens Generative AI Hype to the Dotcom Bubble
As CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud computing platform AWS, Adam Selipsky is one of the most powerful people in computing at a time when the industry is racing to adopt...
