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The enthusiasm for AI and its applications is reaching a nadir, according to an August 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle press release, where generative AI is nearly perched atop the category...
Biden DOJ ‘investigating Elon Musk, Tesla over secret glass house project’
The Justice Department has reportedly expanded an investigation into Tesla CEO Elon Musk to determine whether the company failed to disclose personal benefits that were extended to him, including purported...
Amazon Upgrades Alexa for the ChatGPT Era
When Amazon launched the Alexa virtual assistant nine years ago, its ability to decode voice commands to set a timer or play a song seemed almost magical. Today, the bar...
The deepfake avatars who want to sell you everything
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Writing about China, a question I...
MSN calls deceased NBA player ‘useless’ in shocking AI-generated headline gaffe
MSN, Microsoft’s in-house news aggregation site, sparked outrage after it published an artificial intelligence-powered obituary of former NBA player Brandon Hunter which referred to him in the headline as “useless.”...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX sues feds over DOJ case on refugees
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has sued the US government saying that the government’s administrative case accusing the rocket and satellite company of refusing to hire refugees and asylees violates the Constitution. SpaceX, in...
Four Lincoln Laboratory technologies win five 2023 R&D 100 awards
Ultrasound that doesn’t require touching patients. A web-based tool that reinvents crew scheduling for the Air Force. Cryptographic hardware that protects sensitive data. And the world’s first practical memory for...
3D printed ‘salmon’ is now on the market — what is it made from?
All the fish that’s fit to print. The world’s first 3D-printed vegan salmon is currently swimming off the shelves in Austrian supermarkets — and its creator has high hopes for the...
Meet the 2023-24 Accenture Fellows
The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology has selected five new research fellows for 2023-24. Now in its third year, the initiative underscores the ways in which...
‘World’s most humanoid robot’ to welcome guests at MSG Sphere
Could robot ushers be “better than the real thing”? The Sphere, Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s new 20,000-person venue in Las Vegas, is set to welcome U2 to its stage on...
Amazon unit that makes Kindle, Echo in chaos amid job cuts: sources
Some workers within Amazon’s once-storied hardware division – responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader and Echo voice-assistant – say morale within the division has suffered amid staff cutbacks and...
iPhone users say new iOS 17 drains battery — what to do
The new iOS upgrade is draining users’ batteries — and patience. iPhone fans have flocked to X, formerly Twitter, to voice complaints about the highly-anticipated iOS 17 upgrade, citing extreme battery...
Chipotle founder Steve Ells’ Kernel hires Stephen Goldstein
Chipotle founder Steve Ells recently tapped longtime food delivery industry executive Stephen Goldstein to serve as president of his new plant-based, automated fast-food startup Kernel, The Post has learned. Goldstein...
DeepMind’s New AI Can Predict Genetic Diseases
About 10 years ago, Žiga Avsec was a PhD physics student who found himself taking a crash course in genomics via a university module on machine learning. He was soon...
A Disney director tried—and failed—to use an AI Hans Zimmer to create a soundtrack
Hans Zimmer, 1; AI, 0. When Gareth Edwards, the director of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, was thinking about the soundtrack for his upcoming movie about artificial intelligence, The...
