Grimes Wants to Be Less Famous (and Replaced by AI)
Gideon: I hear you navigating a kind of, I guess, a broad political space. I hear you talking like someone who is part of both left and right political groupings....
This AI Company Releases Deepfakes Into the Wild. Can It Control Them? | WIRED
Synthesia hasn’t always been considered at the sharp end of the generative AI industry. For six years, Riparbelli and his cofounders labored outside the spotlight in pursuit of their mission...
Elon Musk’s illegal flashing X sign at HQ leads to $4,500 fines: report
Elon Musk’s publicity stunt to put a strobe-lit giant “X” atop the headquarters housing his rebranded social media company has cost the building’s landlord nearly $4,500, according to a report....
AdaTape: Foundation model with adaptive computation and dynamic read-and-write
Posted by Fuzhao Xue, Research Intern, and Mostafa Dehghani, Research Scientist, Google Adaptive computation refers to the ability of a machine learning system to adjust its behavior in response to...
Tesla selling Cybertruck cat beds made of cardboard in China
Elon Musk’s Tesla is selling a bizarre Cybertruck-themed cat bed made entirely of cardboard to its customers in China, marking the latest weird product release from the electric vehicle maker....
Threads allows users to see liked posts in latest update as interest dwindles
Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads is rolling out more new features, including the ability for users to review posts they’ve liked, as it looks to reverse a major exodus of users since...
Elon Musk wooed Grimes with high-speed Autopilot ride: new tell-all
Elon Musk took Grimes on a wild ride while courting the Canadian singer that included driving hands-free with his eyes closed to show off his Tesla’s Autopilot feature, according to...
Elon Musk says he ‘may require surgery’ as Zuckerberg ‘cage match’
Oh, my back! X owner Elon Musk warned that he “may require surgery” to fix an old sumo wrestling injury — putting his possible “cage match” with Meta boss Mark...
Cosmic question mark discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a giant cosmic question mark in space that has baffled scientists. The team operating the telescope at the European Space Agency released an...
Apple to release new iPhone 15 ‘around Sept. 22’: report
Apple is reportedly eyeing a mid-September date for the release of its latest iPhone model – a closely-watched debut that comes as the tech giant contends with a rare sales...
Grimes on Living Forever, Dying on Mars, and Giving Elon Musk Ideas for His Best (Worst) Tweets
Not surprisingly, I agree. I have been wondering—can an AI-generated piece of music have soul? Yes. I signed an NDA, so I’m not allowed to say, but I’ve seen things...
Why it’s impossible to build an unbiased AI language model
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. AI language models have recently become...
I became a millionaire creating social media filters — and bought my family a dream house
Cyrene Quiamco — better-known as CyreneQ in tech circles — is cashing in on the public’s obsession with turning themselves into what they are are not. The 34-year-old Filipino American...
The AI Doomsday Bible Is a Book About the Atomic Bomb
Artificial intelligence researchers may wonder whether they’re in a modern-day arms race for more powerful AI systems. If so, who is it between? China and the US—or the handful of...
I used AI to catch my boyfriend cheating — here’s how you can, too
Was their love artificial all along? In a viral TikTok from earlier this year, Mia Dio, 22, claimed that her boyfriend, Billy, had been acting suspiciously. Dio — who has...
