GM’s embattled Cruise robotaxi unit slashes 900 jobs
General Motors’ troubled Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is cutting over 900 jobs, about a quarter of its workforce, as it moves to reduce costs and remake itself after a series...
OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check
OpenAI was founded on a promise to build artificial intelligence that benefits all of humanity—even when that AI becomes considerably smarter than its creators. Since the debut of ChatGPT last...
Now we know what OpenAI’s superalignment team has been up to
OpenAI has announced the first results from its superalignment team, the firm’s in-house initiative dedicated to preventing a superintelligence—a hypothetical future computer that can outsmart humans—from going rogue. Unlike many...
Elon Musk to open a STEM-focused K-12 school, university in Austin
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk plans to launch a STEM-focused primary and secondary school in Texas before debuting a glittering university “dedicated to education at the highest levels,” according to a...
My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk’s ‘Politically Biased’ Chatbot
Some Elon Musk enthusiasts have been alarmed to discover in recent days that Grok, his supposedly “truth-seeking” artificial intelligence was in actual fact a bit of a snowflake. Grok, built...
Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem
Google DeepMind has used a large language model to crack a famous unsolved problem in pure mathematics. In a paper published in Nature today, the researchers say it is the...
‘Devastating’ Google court loss to Epic Games could spark Big Tech restructuring: antitrust critic
Google’s “devastating” antitrust loss against “Fortnite” maker Epic Games this week is a potential game-changer that could open up the Big Tech firm and others to a wave of restructuring,...
This new system can teach a robot a simple household task within 20 minutes
A new system that teaches robots a domestic task in around 20 minutes could help the field of robotics overcome one of its biggest challenges: a lack of training data. ...
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2023
This new system can teach a robot a simple household task within 20 minutes
A new system that teaches robots a domestic task in around 20 minutes could help the field of robotics overcome one of its biggest challenges: a lack of training data. ...
Google quietly shutting down a popular app in shake-up
Google is deleting a popular app in another shakeup at the company. The Google Play Movies & TV app is soon to be no more. The service is already removed...
Ex-Facebook diversity manager pleads guilty to bilking $4M from company in kickback scheme: feds
A former Facebook diversity program manager pleaded guilty to scamming the social media giant out of more than $4 million through a scheme in which she faked business deals in...
FCC denies Elon Musk’s Starlink nearly $900M in subsidies
Republican critics raged after the Federal Communications Commission rejected nearly $900 million in subsidies for Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service – a move they decried as a vindictive play by...
Amazon reveals the questions most frequently asked of Alexa
Alexa, what do people want to know? Amazon is giving us a peek at the answers to that question for at least one country — the United Kingdom. The virtual...
Three MIT students selected as inaugural MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows
MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced three inaugural fellows for the fall 2023 semester. With support from the program, the graduate students, who are in their final year of a master’s...
QR code scams are on the rise, FTC warns — here’s how to protect yourself
QR codes have become increasingly popular since the COVID-19 pandemic, which proliferated their usage in the form of paperless menus or bills. But with the convenience and efficiency of the...
