Mental health experts, regulators, and many internet users themselves have called out the damage that social media can do to mental health. Must it addict, inflame, and depress us? A new social network called Maven aims to offer a healthier alternative, inspired by one scientist’s work in artificial intelligence. The …
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The controversial expansion of Tesla’s only European Gigafactory was approved on Thursday, as the local council in the German municipality of Grünheide voted in favor of the carmaker’s plans to grow its facility near Berlin. The majority of 19 council representatives supported Tesla’s plans to expand the factory. Eleven councilors …
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Cultivated meat is coming to a store near you. Well, not near you, exactly. Unless you live near Huber’s Butchery in Singapore. If you do happen to live there, then on May 16 you could be one of the first people in the world to buy cultivated meat directly from …
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This week, former contributors to the sports blog Deadspin noticed something alarming: Their work had vanished from the site’s archives. There was no obvious pattern to why posts on topics such as ESPN’s attempt to create a “Black Grantland” and George R.R. Martin’s work ethic had disappeared, but it struck …
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It’s nothing new for computers to mimic human social etiquette, emotion, or humor. We just aren’t used to them doing it very well. OpenAI’s presentation of an all-new version of ChatGPT on Monday suggests that’s about to change. It’s built around an updated AI model called GPT-4o, which OpenAI says …
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Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and chief scientist at OpenAI, has left the company. The former Google AI researcher was one of the four board members who voted in November to fire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, triggering days of chaos that saw staff threaten to quit en masse and Altman ultimately restored. …
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Because I have a deep and childish fear of being exposed as uncool, I try hard to act nonchalant when I’m around people with lives more interesting than my own. This is the tactic I employed last year when I met an OnlyFans star, a fit cosplayer and Japanophile who …
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Today, the Biden administration announced a near-unprecedented 100 percent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles, a move the White House said would protect the American industry from “unfairly priced Chinese imports.” Previously, tariffs on Chinese EVs sat at 25 percent. Electric vehicle batteries and battery components will also be subject to …
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ChatGPT is not yet two years old, but the idea of communicating with artificial intelligence by typing into a box is already starting to seem quaint. At Google’s I/O developer conference today, Demis Hassabis, the executive leading the company’s effort to reestablish leadership in AI, introduced a “next-generation AI assistant” …
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Google Search is about to fundamentally change—for better or worse. To align with Alphabet-owned Google’s grand vision of artificial intelligence, and prompted by competition from AI upstarts like ChatGPT, the company’s core product is getting reorganized, more personalized, and much more summarized by AI. At Google’s annual I/O developer conference …
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