First ever AI-written poetry anthology is bleak and alarming
“I AM CODE” is the first-ever poetry anthology featuring poems written entirely by AI — and it does little to assuage any fears we might have about the rise of the robots. A...
Andrew Yang on why we should be scared about the 2024 election
Andrew Yang’s new book, “The Last Election,” marks the politician’s first foray into fiction. The political thriller, set on the 2024 presidential campaign trail, serves as a dire warning about...
TikTok throttles researchers from gaining access to data
TikTok has throttled research into the impact the wildly-popular app has on users’ mental health as well as its alleged role in promoting the spread of misinformation, according to a...
College students’ skills may be ‘obsolete’ due to AI
The boss of job-hunting website Indeed.com said college students are shelling out thousands to attend schools that are teaching skills that soon could be rendered “obsolete” thanks to artificial intelligence....
Tinder unveils ‘VIP’ subscription tier that costs $500 a month
Tinder has unveiled a $500-per-month exclusive subscription service to the dating app’s most active users who will have access to features including “VIP” search, matching, and conversation. Tinder Select, which...
Microsoft’s $69B deal for Activision close to gaining approval
British competition regulators gave preliminary approval Friday to Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard, easing a final global hurdle that paves the way for...
Apple CEO Tim Cook appears in NYC for iPhone 15 launch
Apple CEO Tim Cook showed up in New York City to greet a raucous crowd of gadget geeks on Friday as the iPhone 15’s official launch drew lengthy lines at...
Gen Z Hackers behind MGM , Caesars breaches ‘more sophisticated,’ ‘ruthless’
About a year ago, the US security firm Palo Alto Networks began to hear from a flurry of companies that had been hacked in ways that weren’t the norm for...
SBF’s mom ‘pressured son to break campaign finance law’
Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother urged her son to “avoid” disclosing millions of dollars in FTX donations to her pro-Democrat political action committee, according to a bombshell lawsuit. Barbara Fried, a Stanford...
Apple slashes pay raises for retail employees
Apple is cutting annual pay raises this year for its retail staffers as the company has seen its earnings sag in recent quarters due to a drop in demand for...
Amazon to put ads in Prime Video shows and movies
Amazon said on Friday that it plans to start putting advertisements in the TV shows and movies on its Prime Video streaming platform as the Seattle-based e-tailing giant scrambles to...
Smarter AI Assistants Could Make It Harder to Stay Human
Researchers and futurists have been talking for decades about the day when intelligent software agents will act as personal assistants, tutors, and advisers. Apple produced its famous Knowledge Navigator video...
Switching away from Google’s search engine takes ‘too many steps’: DuckDuckGo CEO
The founder of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grumbled about how difficult it is for users to switch their default service from Google while testifying at the Big Tech firm’s landmark...
Gen Z doesn’t want to eat if it means putting down their phones: study
If you can’t put your phone down, stay out of the kitchen. A nationwide survey from Home Run Inn Pizza asked 1,000 Gen Zers and 1,000 millennials about their attachment to cell...
Bolstering enterprise LLMs with machine learning operations foundations
Generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), will play a crucial role in the future of customer and employee experiences, software development, and more. Building a solid foundation in machine...
