Bumble laying off 350 workers, 30% of dating app’s workforce
Bumble announced plans to lay off 350 employers on Tuesday, reducing its headcount by 30% as part of a larger restructuring plan. Job cuts across dating app — whose defining...
Bitcoin soars above $60K as spot ETFs drive trending frenzy, lead to Coinbase crash
Bitcoin blew past $60,000 for the first time in more than two years on Wednesday as the popularity of spot ETFs drove a renewed trading frenzy for volatile cryptocurrencies —...
Elon Musk reacts to Apple’s decision to kill electric car project
Elon Musk posted a saluting emoji and an image of a cigarette to mark the demise of Apple’s electric car project. The Tesla CEO reacted to the iPhone maker’s decision...
3 Questions: Shaping the future of work in an age of AI
The MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, co-directed by MIT professors Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson, celebrated its official launch on Jan. 22. The new initiative’s mission...
Coinbase users’ wallets wiped to $0 after crash as Bitcoin soared
Coinbase users were thrown into a panic Wednesday after finding that their digital wallets had suddenly been wiped out — only to find out their funds were safe and that...
Meta seeks to ‘loosen up’ Llama AI chatbot with better answers to contentious questions: report
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms is planning to release the newest version of its artificial-intelligence large language model Llama 3 in July which would give better responses to contentious questions posed by users,...
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...
