Alphabet’s Waymo said on Tuesday it had doubled its paid rides to 100,000 per week in just over three months as the autonomous ride-hailing firm expanded its areas of service and allowed more people to ride its robotaxis.
Chocolate muffins blew up on TikTok during the Olympics, and their staying power has surpassed the Paris games themselves.
Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen became TikTok’s “muffin man” throughout the 2024 Olympics after he documented his obsession with the cafeteria’s chocolate muffins. Christiansen’s videos racked up
Attorneys general from 10 new states have joined a civil antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation and its ticket-selling unit, Ticketmaster, for allegedly monopolizing markets across the live concert industry.
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont have joined the lawsuit. This boosts the total t
Before JD Vance began his rapid rise to vice presidential candidate, he co-founded a Silicon Valley-backed donor organization to finance right-wing news stories, voter turnout operations and election polls with a goal of spreading U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand of nationalism, according to previously unreported
Artificial intelligence (AI) prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic “
A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular
As California’s AI bill, SB 1047, continues to move through the California state legislature, the AI industry and its allies are trying to convince Governor Gavin Newsom to veto the legislation.
The bill, which requires makers of very large frontier models to establish and report AI safety guidelines, passed out of the appropriations committee last week and is now slated for a floor v
For students and professional scholars alike, starting a new research project typically means digging through academic literature to understand what others have already written.
That can take a considerable amount of time, with researchers tracking down and combing through journal articles to begin their research and contextualize their own findings. But a growing collection of AI-powered tools aims to make that process easier. These new tools can help researchers more quickly find
The next frontier in the battle over data privacy doesn’t revolve around a keyboard or smartphone. It involves what happens inside your car.
Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against General Motors (GM), alleging the auto giant violated Texans’ privacy rights by collecting and selling driver data to insurance c
As concerns about foreign interference in the 2024 election linger and politicians continue to worry about the potential negative impacts of artificial intelligence, OpenAI, late last Friday, announced it had discovered an “Iranian influence operation” using its tools to