xAI’s gas turbines get official approval from Memphis, Tennessee, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.
Business, Science, Turbine Tension
Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI Read Post »
A chatbot designed to avoid anthropomorphism offers a compelling glimpse into the future of human-to-AI relationships.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, AI Lab
If you missed WIRED’s live, subscriber-only Q&A focused on the software features of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, hosted by Reece Rogers and Kylie Robison, you can watch the replay here.
Gear, Gear / How To and Advice, AI Unlocked
Livestream Replay: Beginner Advice for Claude, a ChatGPT Alternative Read Post »
TranscribeGlass can subtitle conversations in nearly real time and will soon be able to translate languages and tell you when the person you’re talking to you is feeling socially awkward.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Glass Whole
These Transcribing Eyeglasses Put Subtitles on the World Read Post »
The Meta CEO is leading a hiring blitz, offering top talent at OpenAI eye-watering pay packages and endless access to cutting-edge chips.
Business, AI Talent War
Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent Read Post »
Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated.
Politics, Fake News
Some Instagram creators are using Google’s Veo 3 and racking up millions of views on AI videos of “bigfoot baddies.” They’ll teach you how to make them for $15.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Generative AI
AI Videos of Black Women Depicted as ‘Bigfoot’ Are Going Viral Read Post »
“What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers.
Business, AI Talent War
Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’ Read Post »
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Pay Per Crawl
After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Flip Flop
After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, AI Talent War
Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team Read Post »
The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, AI MD
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they’re ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
Business, Open Season
OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’ Read Post »
The latest wave of AI tools claim to take the pain out of booking your next trip. From transport and accommodation to restaurants and attractions, we let AI take the reins to put this to the test.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Trip Advisor
I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn’t Terrible Read Post »
Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Talent Wars
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
Gear, Gear / Trends, Bot Blah
The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft in many ways hinges on the definition of artificial general intelligence, creating a tension that has spilled over into OpenAI research that has not been made public.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Five Levels
OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations Read Post »
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we explore Disney and Universal’s lawsuit against Midjourney, which could be consequential for the future of how intellectual property is treated in the AI era.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Uncanny Valley
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
The Big Story, Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Prompt Daddy
My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them Read Post »
A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors’ books.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Copyright Wars
Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch Read Post »
