Why you’re about to see a lot more drones in the sky
This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. If you follow drone news closely—and you’re forgiven if you...
Bill Gates ‘terrified’ mega-charity employees, book claims
Employees who worked at at Bill Gates’ mega-charity claimed they were terrified by the billionaire’s domineering behavior — with one was likening the tech tycoon to France’s King Louis XIV,...
This Code Breaker Is Using AI to Decode the Heart’s Secret Rhythms
Roeland Decorte grew up in a nursing home in Belgium, where he learned to spot the subtle early signs of mental decline in small changes to how residents walked or...
New open-source tool helps to detangle the brain
In late 2023, the first drug with potential to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease was approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration. Alzheimer’s is one of many debilitating neurological disorders...
Here’s how people are actually using AI
This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. When the generative AI boom started with ChatGPT in...
Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report
The Justice Department is reportedly considering a push for a historic breakup of Google’s business empire after a federal judge ruled the Big Tech giant has an illegal monopoly over...
He Made a Movie About Humans Rising Up Against AI. Now He’s Doing the Real Thing
When I interviewed writers and actors at the picket lines of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes last year, there was a mix of sentiment around AI, which, while largely negative,...
Proton-conducting materials could enable new green energy technologies
As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the movement of electrons. But materials that can efficiently conduct protons — the nucleus of the hydrogen atom — could...
AI “godfather” Yoshua Bengio has joined a UK project to prevent AI catastrophes
Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award winner who is considered one of the “godfathers” of modern AI, is throwing his weight behind a project funded by the UK government to embed...
I asked AI to help with dinner and it took so much off my mental load
Before he became a dad three years ago, Jonathan had his meal planning skills down pat when it came to cooking for himself and wife, Farrah. “I was actually quite meticulous with...
OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode
In late July, OpenAI began rolling out an eerily humanlike voice interface for ChatGPT. In a safety analysis released today, the company acknowledges that this anthropomorphic voice may lure some...
Dimitris Bertsimas named vice provost for open learning
Dimitris Bertsimas PhD ’88 has been appointed vice provost for open learning at MIT, effective Sept. 1. In this role, Bertsimas, who is the Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor...
Google DeepMind trained a robot to beat humans at table tennis
Do you fancy your chances of beating a robot at a game of table tennis? Google DeepMind has trained a robot to play the game at the equivalent of amateur-level...
Wedding giant The Knot Worldwide cuts 4% of workforce in restructuring
The Knot Worldwide slashed about 4% of its global workforce this week as part of an internal restructuring at the wedding planning giant, The Post has learned. Approximately 100 employees...
Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine
Among the other attacks created by Bargury is a demonstration of how a hacker—who, again, must already have hijacked an email account—can gain access to sensitive information, such as people’s...
