Artificial intelligence has wowed me, but it was never something I wanted to use daily, especially because it required a cumbersome number of apps and subscriptions, depending on the task.
And then there was the privacy issue. Using AI even for scheduling or communicating with colleagues entailed blindly trusting that big, data-hungry AI companies wouldn’t a
Yesterday, Apple jumped headfirst into the AI race. In addition to introducing its new operating systems, including iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, the company unveiled Apple Intelligence—its implementation of artificial intelligence.
Apple Intelligence isn’t a generative AI app or just a chatbot like ChatGPT. Rather, it’s an integrated layer of artificial intelligence embedded in Apple’s upcoming operating systems
A Tesla shareholder vote on Thursday on whether to reinstate CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package that was shot down by a Delaware judge will not provide a quick resolution, irrespective of the tally’s results.
Tesla’s board is hoping sharehol
When generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) emerged prominently in late 2022, it quickly became the next big thing. McKinsey also got inspired, not only publishing extensively on the topic but also realizing that it could use gen AI to help bring together the company’s vast but separate knowledge sources.
One of the fun things about being a Silicon Valley executive is that there are so many different ways to make money.
Sam Altman, CEO of AI powerhouse OpenAI, also runs a famed startup incubator called Y Combinator. That position afforded him the opportunity in 2013 to meet a new company in the nuclear power business, Oklo, which he invested in. Altman was intrigued by the Oklo’s mission to make a more-efficient nuclear reactor to
Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the ">heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that capture about a third of all human-produced carbon dioxide and sink it into the deep sea, where it remains for hundreds of years.
Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the meteoroids are as tiny as grains of sand and small pebbles, and they completely burn up high in the atmosphere. You can see meteoroids larger than about a golf ball when they light up as meteors
When OpenAI launched the voice assistant ChatGPT-4o in May, users quickly noticed some eerie similarities to the 2013 Spike Jonze film Her. Scarlett Johansson, who voiced the film’s AI assistant, Samantha, even called out the company for producing a voice so indistinguishab
At long last, Apple has finally entered the AI race. The company announced on Monday a raft of new AI-driven features at its WWDC developer conference, as well as a new partnership with