EBay laying off 1,000 workers — 9% of workforce
EBay will lay off about 1,000 full-time employees, or roughly 9% of its overall workforce, as it looks to reverse a major slump at the once-booming online marketplace, the company...
Apple ramping up plans to integrate AI into iPhones: report
Apple has been steadily pouring resources into the pursuit of advanced intelligence products – and the tech giant is reportedly planning to integrate the features into future versions of its...
Bilt Rewards gets $3.1B valuation, adds Roger Goodell, Ken Chenault to board
Bilt Rewards, a New York-based startup that operates a loyalty platform where users can earn points on rent payments, has more than doubled its valuation to $3.1 billion – and...
OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public
WIRED’s request for the documents promised in OpenAI’s IRS filings fell to the counsel for its nonprofit to decide on. Their denial and new policy of withholding those documents extends...
Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them
“A process called reinforcement learning from human feedback is used right now in every state-of-the-art model,” to fine-tune its responses, Baum says. Most AI companies aim to create systems that...
How China is regulating robotaxis
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Not many technologies have had such a...
Lifelike Einstein, Hawking could be college lecturers thanks to hologram technology
College students may soon be able to attend lectures given by long-dead pioneers like Albert Einstein and Coco Chanel thanks to groundbreaking hologram technology, according to a report. Some universities...
What to do about AI in health?
Before a drug is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it must demonstrate both safety and efficacy. However, the FDA does not require an understanding a drug’s...
Schiaparelli stuns with couture robot baby, motherboard dress
Peek-AI-boo! At Paris haute couture fashion week on Monday, Schiaparelli’s creative director, Daniel Roseberry, wowed viewers yet again with his mind-boggling, futuristic collection featuring an extra-terrestrial flare — even introducing...
Meta’s retreat from news content is hurting traffic for media outlets: report
News outlets are experiencing major losses in visitor traffic – and hits to their revenue – as Facebook and Instagram parent Meta pivots away from the news business, according to...
Amazon hit with $35M fine for ‘excessively intrusive’ worker productivity monitoring
Amazon was slapped with a $35 million fine Tuesday after regulators in France determined that the e-commerce giant has an “excessively intrusive system” for keeping tabs on its warehouse workers....
‘Extremely dangerous’ leak reveals 26 billion account records stolen from Twitter, LinkedIn, more: ‘Mother of All Breaches’
One of the largest data breaches to date could compromise billions of accounts worldwide, prompting concerns of widespread cybercrime. Dubbed the “Mother of All Breaches,” the massive leak revealed 26...
Chinese Startup 01.AI Is Winning the Open Source AI Race
Delange said that open source language models are improving rapidly and can be better than OpenAI’s market-leading GPT-4 for some specialized tasks. But he noted that many of the best...
What’s next for robotaxis in 2024
In 2023, it almost felt as if the promise of robotaxis was soon to be fulfilled. Hailing a robotaxi had briefly become the new trendy thing to do in San...
Why does AI being good at math matter?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week the AI world was...
