Google hit with $2.3B lawsuit by 32 media groups
Google on Wednesday was slapped with a $2.3 billion lawsuit by media giant Axel Springer and 31 other publishers, alleging that they suffered heavy losses due to the search giant’s...
Sam Bankman-Fried extorted, harassed by jailhouse snitches working for the feds: ex-cop
Inmates at a notorious Brooklyn jail housing Sam Bankman-Fried are secretly working with the feds to “extort” and “harass” the disgraced FTX mogul, according to a former New York City...
Elon Musk vows Tesla will ship long-delayed Roadster next year
Tesla will aim to ship its Roadster electric sports car next year, the electric vehicle maker’s CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday. “Tonight, we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster,” Musk...
Google CEO says Gemini chatbot’s ‘woke’ AI disaster ‘completely unacceptable’
Google CEO Sundar Pichai blasted the Gemini AI chatbot’s widely panned habit of generating “woke” versions of historical figures as “completely unacceptable” in a scathing email to company employees. Pichai...
Chatbots’ inaccurate, misleading responses about U.S. elections threaten to keep voters from polls
NEW YORK — With presidential primaries underway across the U.S., popular chatbots are generating false and misleading information that threatens to disenfranchise voters, according to a report published Tuesday based...
Apple ditches electric car project, shifts focus to generative AI
Apple is abandoning its decade-long effort to build an electric car in favor of ramping up efforts on its generative AI projects, according to a report. Apple announced the plans...
Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholar
MIT senior Sadhana Lolla has won the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which offers students an opportunity to pursue graduate study in the field of their choice at Cambridge University in...
AI-generated nude deepfakes circulate at Beverly Hills middle school
A Beverly Hills middle school was rocked by photos that circulated the internet last week of real students’ faces superimposed on artificial intelligence-generated nude bodies. According to the Beverly Hills...
Google’s $700M Play Store settlement is bad for consumers: judge
A federal judge joined critics in questioning Google’s controversial $700 million settlement with all 50 US states over anticompetitive Android app store practices – pointing out it would only provide...
OpenAI says NY Times ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to build copyright suit
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence systems to generate...
Google parent loses $70B in market value after ‘woke’ AI chatbot disaster
Google’s parent company lost more than $70 billion in market value in a single trading day after its “woke” chatbot’s bizarre image debacle stoked renewed fears among investors about its...
Sony lays off 900 workers from PlayStation division amid videogame slump
Sony Interactive Entertainment on Tuesday said the company will cut about 900 jobs at its PlayStation unit and shut a studio in London as the videogame industry struggles to recover...
Bans on deepfakes take us only so far—here’s what we really need
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. There has been some really encouraging...
New AI model could streamline operations in a robotic warehouse
Hundreds of robots zip back and forth across the floor of a colossal robotic warehouse, grabbing items and delivering them to human workers for packing and shipping. Such warehouses are...
Parents choosing baby names that sound ‘cool’ on social media
Can you handle this baby name trend? A professional baby namer says parents are now selecting monikers that sound “cool” as a TikTok or Instagram handle. “Communication and technology are...
