How an “AI-tocracy” emerges
Many scholars, analysts, and other observers have suggested that resistance to innovation is an Achilles’ heel of authoritarian regimes. Such governments can fail to keep up with technological changes that...
Model Lisa Opie uses AI to create Glamour Bulgaria Barbie-inspired cover
She’s a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world — kind of. A model used artificial intelligence to create, for the first time ever, an entire magazine cover shoot — in...
H&R Block shared taxpayers data with Meta: lawmakers
Three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over the course of at least two years, a group of congressional...
Elon Musk’s xAI Might Be Hallucinating Its Chances Against ChatGPT
In April, Elon Musk told right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson that he was starting a project to compete with ChatGPT and build “a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the...
Fired Twitter workers demand Elon Musk pay $500M in severance
Twitter on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk...
Generative AI imagines new protein structures
Biology is a wondrous yet delicate tapestry. At the heart is DNA, the master weaver that encodes proteins, responsible for orchestrating the many biological functions that sustain life within the...
Elon Musk launches artificial intelligence firm xAI
Elon Musk launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team made up of engineers from the same big US technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his...
Shari Redstone, Sheryl Sandberg at Sun Valley resort, Idaho
SUN VALLEY, Idaho – The festivities are underway at Allen & Co.’s annual “summer camp for billionaires” at swank Sun Valley resort in Idaho, where business moguls kicked off their...
‘Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning’ Is the Perfect AI Panic Movie
American action movie villains have always acted as a sort of paranoia litmus test, capturing a snapshot of the particular anxieties plaguing the country and its citizens at any given...
Altman, Zaslav jet into Sun Valley for ‘summer camp for billionaires’
SUN VALLEY, Idaho – OpenAI kingpin Sam Altman and WarnerBros. Discovery boss David Zaslav joined dozens of the nation’s power players who jetted into this resort town Tuesday ahead of...
Bill Gates isn’t too scared about AI
Bill Gates has joined the chorus of big names in tech who have weighed in on the question of risk around artificial intelligence. The TL;DR? He’s not too worried, we’ve...
Microsoft’s $69B deal to buy Activision can go forward: judge
A US judge ruled on Tuesday that Microsoft may go forward with its planned acquisition of videogame maker Activision Blizzard, turning aside antitrust enforcers’ request for a preliminary injunction to temporarily stop...
An open-source gymnasium for machine learning assisted computer architecture design
Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, and Vijay Janapa Reddi, Visiting Researcher, Google Research Computer Architecture research has a long history of developing simulators and tools to evaluate and shape...
Twitter saw ‘largest usage day’ despite users flocking to Threads
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted on Monday that the social media site last week “had our largest usage day since February” despite reports that traffic has been cratering as users...
Weather forecasting is having an AI moment
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