Seventy years ago on Friday, no one outside of the U.S. Supreme Court building heard it when Chief Justice Earl Warren announced the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision on school desegregation.
Now, through the use of an innovative voice-cloning technology, it is becoming possible for people to “hear” Warren read the decision as he did on May
U.S. digital bank Chime is launching a product that will allow customers to access up to $500 of their wages before payday, the latest move by a financial technology company to enter the fast-growing “earned wage access” market.
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Elon Musk warned us this was coming. Now, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) has apparently followed through on his threat to begin treating the words “cis” and “cisgender” as slurs, the latest in a number of moves on the social media site that some view as targeting transgender individuals.
Posting to X via the mobile app with the words “cisgender” or “cis” results in an interstitial warning screen reading, “This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and could b
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer released on Wednesday a long-anticipated road map for governing artificial intelligence, which called for some $32 billion in annual spending for AI research and development by 2026. The bipartisan proposal, which is meant as a guide for the Senate’s legislative efforts on AI, grew out of a yearlong series of “insight forums,” which inc
A new report commissioned by the International Committee of the Red Cross raises concerns about militaries’ use of artificial intelligence systems in warfare.
The report, authored by researcher Arthur Holland Michel, who is an external researcher contracted by the Red Cross, argues that current AI and computer systems introduce significan
OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the startup at the center of today’s artificial intelligence boom.
“OpenAI would not be what it is without him,” OpenAI CEO Sam
The idea that the iPad is a magical piece of glass is so Apple-esque that I’d developed a false memory of Steve Jobs describing it that way when he &t=7s">unveiled the first one in 2010. He didn’t, and I’m not positive just when the company embraced the metaphor. It dates at least to the press release
Neuralink’s disclosure last week that tiny wires inside the brain of its first patient had pulled out of position is an issue the El
Chinese electric vehicle maker Aiways will go public via a merger with U.S. special purpose acquisition company Hudson Acquisition Corp in a deal that should value the company around $400 million, the two companies said.
The deal is a lifeline for Aiways, which halted production at its Shangrao plant last summer as a fierce
In the current era of artificial intelligence (AI) reshaping industries worldwide, integrating AI in healthcare, public policy, and business is paramount. Dr. Soroush Saghafian, the visionary founder and director of the Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab) at Harvard, is a key figure at this intersection. His pioneering work as a Harvard professor involves developing, integratin