Ahead of the 2024 election, Donald Trump is pitching himself as the chosen candidate for crypto adherents. He reportedly told a campaign stop in California earlier this month he wants to be the “crypto president” (a major about-face for a guy who in 2019 said he was “n
This week, Apple unveiled iOS 18, the next-generation operating system for the iPhone. The flagship feature of iOS 18 is Apple Intelligence, a layer of artificial intelligence embedded within iOS 18 itself. It will allow everything from generative image capabilities to having AI help you draft the perfect email.
But in addition to Apple Intelligence, iOS 18
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We finally get a look at Apple’s big AI play
The past couple of years of AI have been marked by grandiose claims th
A new pilot program from LinkedIn will offer users AI-delivered advice, crafted based on wisdom from particular LinkedIn Learning instructors.
LinkedIn worked closely with instructors including chartered psychologist Gemma Leigh Roberts and business professor and strategy expert Anil K. Gupta to train AI based on their LInkedIn Learning courses, LInkedIn posts, and som
AI—or artificial intelligence—is often used as a way to summarize data and improve writing. But AI tools also represent a powerful and efficient way to analyze large amounts of text to search for patterns. In addition, AI tools can assist with developing research products that can be shared wi
Rocket maker SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk were sued on Wednesday by eight engineers who say they were illegally fired for raising concerns about alleged sexual harassment and discrimination against women.
The engineers—four women and four men—claim Musk ordered their firing in 2022 after they circulated a letter calling the billionaire a “distraction and embarrassment” and urging executives to disavow sexually charged comments he had made on social media. The lawsuit wa
Tech and competition watchdog groups have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to probe YouTube, saying the video-streaming platform could enable Google and its parent company, Alphabet, to dominate home entertainment.
In a letter to Justice Department antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter dated Tuesday, th
When disinformation researcher Wen-Ping Liu looked into China’s efforts to influence Taiwan’s recent election using fake social media accounts, something unusual stood out about the most successful profiles.
They were female, or at least that’s what they appeared to be. Fake profiles that claimed to be
Databricks and Shutterstock have developed a new text-to-image diffusion model similar to DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, but without the risk of copyright violations.
Most image generators are trained on images scraped from the web, but ImageAI, as it’s called, is trained only on Shutterstock images. That means there’s no risk of copyright infringement lawsuits resulting from the AI producing images closely derived from those of unpaid creators.
Databricks head of gen
During the World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple’s long-awaited entry into artificial intelligence took shape. While a recent OpenAI conference showing off new tech evoked comparisons to the title character in the 2013 film Her, Apple Intelligence brought to mind someone else: Gary from Veep.
For the uninitiated, Gary (Tony Hale