Fintech firm Klarna, one of the early adopters of generative AI (GenAI), said on Tuesday it is using AI for purposes such as running marketing campaigns and generating images, saving about $10 million in costs annually.
The company has cut its sales and marketin
Search engines are undergoing significant changes of late, with many users particularly worried that generative AI could introduce new biases into the results page.
But a new study by researchers at Northeastern and Stanford suggests search was far from perfect in the first place—at least, when it comes to image results.
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, about one-third of U.S. voters still believe the 2020 election was rigged in favor of President Joe Biden. That’s a troubling figure, particularly as the 2024 rematch between Biden and Donald Trump
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What happens to your contacts if you lose your phone or switch SIM cards?
Ideally, the answer should be “nothing.” If you’re properly backing up your contacts, your phone’s SIM card shoul
Effective use of AI technologies is this decade’s golden opportunity for companies, large and small. But as every software vendor claims to be “powered by AI,” “AI-ready,” or simply just “AI” – how does one separate potentially game-changing AI innovations from AI fiction? We call the seemingly instant AI-ification of everything “AI washing,” and business leaders need to be aware of this growing trend as they consider which tools to bring into their organizations.
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Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI raised $6 billion in series B funding, reaching a post-money valuation of $24 billion as investors bet big on challengers to companies like OpenAI in the intensifying AI race.
The funding round was backed by inv
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Most New Year’s resolutions are buried by now. April’s a great time for a fresh start. So today’s post focuses on simple, us
Excerpted from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, by Thomas S. Mullaney. Published by The MIT Press. Copyright © 2024 MIT. All rights reserved.
During the early rise of consumer PCs in the 1980s, no Western-designed CPU, printer, monitor, operating system, or programming language was capable of handling Chinese character input or output—not “out of the box,” at least. For the better part of the history of computing, computing techn
Smartphone cameras have significantly improved in recent years. Computational photography and AI allow these devices to capture stunning images that can surpass what we see with the naked eye. Photos of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, provide one particularly striking example.