Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment
Rose-tinted predictions for artificial intelligence’s grand achievements will be swept aside by underwhelming performance and dangerous results. Source
Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon
When AI researcher Melanie Mitchell published Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans in 2019, she set out to clarify AI’s impact. A few years later, ChatGPT set off a...
Alexa & Google infused bidet coming to a toilet near you
Talk dirty to me. A new artificially intelligent bidet responding to verbal commands aims to make a splash in the toilet market. Promising a squeaky clean, “hands-free” experience, Kohler’s PureWash...
Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date
The R1 costs $199, though you’ll have to factor in the cost of a monthly cellular connectivity bill too, and you have to set that up yourself. Preorders start today...
Facebook, Instagram limiting more content for teens as regulatory pressure mounts
Meta Platforms said Tuesday it would hide more content from teens on Instagram and Facebook, after regulators around the globe pressed the social media giant to protect children from harmful content on...
Meta, X and Google sue Ohio over parental consent law
A trade group representing some of the largest social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X is suing Ohio after the state enacted a law that requires children under...
Bringing breakthrough data intelligence to industries
As organizations recognize the transformational opportunity presented by generative AI, they must consider how to deploy that technology across the enterprise in the context of their unique industry challenges, priorities,...
What to expect from the coming year in AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Happy new year! I hope you...
FTC nominee Melissa Holyoak traded chummy emails with Google-backed firm that ‘advocates abolishing antitrust rules’
Emails obtained by The Post reveal Federal Trade Commission nominee Melissa Holyoak’s chummy rapport with ex-colleagues at a Google-funded think tank – including one who wrote of the FTC that...
Multiple AI models help robots execute complex plans more transparently
Your daily to-do list is likely pretty straightforward: wash the dishes, buy groceries, and other minutiae. It’s unlikely you wrote out “pick up the first dirty dish,” or “wash that...
Technique could efficiently solve partial differential equations for numerous applications
In fields such as physics and engineering, partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to model complex physical processes to generate insight into how some of the most complicated physical and...
5 apps that’ll get you out of your next speeding ticket
Driving fast can be thrilling, but it can also be dangerous and costly. That’s why you need to be aware of the speed limits and the locations of speed cameras...
Supreme Court rejects X Corp.’s bid challenging US surveillance disclosures
The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by Elon Musk’s X Corp. to consider whether the social media company, formerly called Twitter, can publicly disclose how often federal law...
Apple’s $3,499 Vision Pro AR headset to hit shelves in February
Apple said Monday its Vision Pro device will be available in the US from Feb. 2, months after it was launched to capture an augmented-reality (AR) headset market dominated by Facebook-parent Meta Platforms....
Apple off to worst-ever start in 2024 as iPhone, antitrust worries erase $177B in value
Apple shares are off to their worst-ever start to begin a year as investors fret over a series of issues plaguing the tech giant – including signs of weak iPhone...
