Meta’s Oversight Board says the social media company fell short in its response to a pair of high-profile explicit, AI-generated images of female public figures on its sites and is calling for the company to update its policies and make the language of those policies even more clear to users.
The decision, announced Thursday, comes after a three-mo
In 1994, Peter Shor, an American mathematician working at Bell Labs, published a paper with a wonky title and earth-shaking implications. In “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer,” Shor showed how, using a hypothetical quantum computer, you could efficiently solve certain types of mathematical problems that overwhelmed even the most powerful classical computer systems—eliminating many, many steps, and cutting the calculation time ex
What if a company could analyze all your personal information, setting its price based on the data available? The Federal Trade Commission worries this might already be a reality.
The FTC has ordered eight companies—Mastercard, Revionics, Bloomreach, Chase, Task, Pros, Accenture, and McKinsey & Co.—to submit information about the
Walter Driver would like your attention, please. As the cofounder and co-CEO of Scopely, the mobile games company behind such free-to-play hits as Monopoly Go!, Scrabble Go, Marvel Strike Force, and Star Trek Fleet Command, he knows your time is precious. That’s why his games never demand much more than a minute or two to play—unless, of course, you choose to keep going. Better to lure users in with little notifications that inspire a minute of play here,
LinkedIn cofounder, tech investor, and major political donor Reid Hoffman has thrown his support behind Kamala Harris, after staunchly backing Biden. This has plunged him into headlines, in opposition to Elon Musk and other prominent tech leaders. Reid joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to take us inside Silicon Valley’s reaction to Harris’s presidential bid, why some business leaders are em
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind last week’s massive computer crash, offered $10 UberEats gift cards to its affected partners for their troubles, according to a TechCrunch report. And now, some
Seven key swing states will determine the outcome of the presidential election this year. One spot on the map that almost certainly won’t is the Bay Area, where Democratic candidates have won all of the region’s nine counties in every presidential race since 1988.
And yet, while the politics of the Bay Area ostensibly couldn’t matter less to this race, in a lot of ways, they’ve never mattered more.
A new AI platform led by activist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick aims to make it easier for anyone to publish—and monetize—their original stories as comics and manga.
Lumi, unveiled in beta form Wednesday, includes AI-powered tools designed to let anyone with so much as an idea develop full-fledged stories, says Kaepernick, the company’s founder and CEO. From the start, Lumi is designed to support people looking to create c
General Motors’ Cruise self-driving unit will focus its development efforts on a next-generation Chevrolet Bolt as it indefinitely delays its planned Origin vehicle that would not have a steering wheel, the automaker said on Tuesday.
In 2022, GM filed a petition with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration seeking permission to deploy up to
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s potential removal of support for electric vehicles would hurt other automakers more than the Austin, Texas-based firm.
“It would be devastating for our competitors, and it would hurt Tesla slight