OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has the Midas touch these days on most projects he backs. He made a fortune on the Reddit IPO and was an early investor in both Uber and Airbnb—but not everything he touches turns to gold.
Worldcoin was founded in 2019 by Altman and two others with backing from venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman. It quickly turned heads by offering free cryptocurrency tokens to people who would agree to let the company’s shiny, softball
Two state senators from across the aisle have come together to call on the Mall of America to pause its newly implemented facial recognition technology.
“Public policy concerns surrounding privacy rights and facial recognition technologies have yet to be resolved, including the high risks of abuse, data breaches, identity theft, liability and accountab
Spotify announced this week the rollout of a comments feature on its podcasts. But we’ve already seen other tools’ and websites’ comment sections devolve over the years into hate speech and polarization.
Spotify’s solution to this dilemma? Creator self-moderation.
Rather than granting everyone the ability to publish their own comments, Spotify is making creators weed through the comme
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The Pentagon is finally getting better at procuring technology from Silicon Valley. Private-sector t
Hedge funds hunting for artificial intelligence-related stock market bargains are rushing into South Korea’s chipmakers, betting a new wave of demand for high-end memory chips and government spending makes them more valuable.
Britain’
A UFC match wasn’t on my bingo card for this year, but ringside seats were too intriguing to pass up. Surrounded by shouting fans, my VIP perch had me at eye level to the ring with a clear view of the fighters’ grimacing faces as they circled, pounced on, and wrestled one another to the ground.
Physically, I’m nowhere near this fight, which is live-streaming from Las Vegas. Instead, I’m among 500 other guests for an immersive watch party near Los Angeles inside a three-story dome w
Over the past decade, virtual assistants powered by artificial intelligence, like Apple’s Siri and
Worldwide sales of fitness trackers increased from $14 billion in 2017 to over $36 billion in 2020. The skyrocketing success of these gadgets suggests that more people than ever see some value in keeping tabs on the number of steps they take, flights of stairs they climb, time they spend sitting and calories they burn.
The manufacturers of these devices certainly want consumers to believe that
In 2023, economist Richard Baldwin said, “AI won’t take your job. It’s somebody using AI that will take your job.” Since then, we have been imagining the workforce of tomorrow, full of AI power users who are not just competent in their own right, but successfully engage with AI tools to achieve results. Not quite the human-robot collaborations that play out in our favorite s
Suicide rates are on the rise. Nearly 50,000 people died by suicide in 2022, a 3% increase from the previous year according to the CDC, and a 36% increase since 2000. Not only is suicide traumatic; it’s expensive. During 2015-2020, suicides and self-harm cost an average of $510 billion a year