Some People Actually Kind of Love Deepfakes
A month ago, the consulting company Accenture presented a potential client an unusual and attention-grabbing pitch for a new project. Instead of the usual slide deck, the client saw deepfakes...
Responsible technology use in the AI age
The sudden appearance of application-ready generative AI tools over the last year has confronted us with challenging social and ethical questions. Visions of how this technology could deeply alter the...
Google’s new version of Gemini can handle far bigger amounts of data
Google DeepMind today launched the next generation of its powerful artificial intelligence model Gemini, which has an enhanced ability to work with large amounts of video, text, and images. It’s...
Apple Vision Pro users return $3.5K headsets, say they cause extreme headaches, motion sickness: ‘Like a torture session’
Pro, no! Customers who forked out $3,500 for the Apple Vision Pro headset are already returning the devices, claiming they cause eye strain, headaches and motion sickness. More than 200,000 pairs...
Google’s Flagship Gemini AI Model Gets a Major Upgrade
Alphabet’s Gemini AI model has been public for only two months, but the company is already releasing an upgrade. Gemini Pro 1.5, launching with limited availability today, is more powerful...
Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on AI
Cisco revealed plans to slash its headcount by 5% — roughly 4,250 employees across the tech behemoth’s global workforce — as it steps up its focus on artificial intelligence. San...
Here Comes the Flood of AI-Generated Clickbait
Domain names have value, even when the websites that were once hosted there are shut down or abandoned. Prospectors will often swoop in and snatch up an unused domain, then...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams sues Facebook, Instagram, others for fueling youth mental health crisis
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday that his administration has filed a lawsuit against social media companies including Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram for fueling mental health crisis...
Tinder, Hinge, League dating apps encourage ‘compulsive use’ with ‘predatory’ business model: lawsuit
Match Group was sued on Wednesday in a proposed class action claiming that its dating apps Tinder, Hinge and The League are designed to addict users, generating more profit for the...
Ex-Twitter engineer says Musk wrongly fired him over leaks to media: book
A former Twitter engineer claims he was wrongly fired by a paranoid Elon Musk because of persistent press leaks shortly after the mogul bought the social media site according to...
Gen Z doesn’t trust their bosses to give career advice — here’s what they’re turning to instead
Providing employees with opportunities for growth in the workplace can be critical in building loyalty, which is something many employers could use these days in an age of increased attrition...
Typo in earnings report sends Lyft stock soaring by 67%
A typo in Lyft’s earnings report overstated a key profit metric by a factor of 10 — sparking a 67% spike in its stock late Tuesday before management corrected the...
Jeff Bezos creeps closer to Elon Musk on world’s richest billionaires list
Jeff Bezos is nipping at Elon Musk’s heels on the billionaires list after the Amazon founder sold some $4 billion worth of company stock in the last week. The Amazon...
Elon Musk in talks with Tesla shareholder before appeal of nixed $56B pay package
Elon Musk and the Tesla shareholder who won a verdict last month voiding the CEO’s $56-billion pay package will ask a judge to pause her ruling until an appeal is resolved, according to a Tuesday letter...
Using AI to discover stiff and tough microstructures
Every time you smoothly drive from point A to point B, you’re not just enjoying the convenience of your car, but also the sophisticated engineering that makes it safe and...
