I love my job, but it comes with an unsettling occupational hazard: editing stories about technologies that threaten my own professional existence.
Such was the experience of working on senior editor Mark Sullivan’s story on Perplexity, one of the buzziest startups in Silicon Valley. Perplexity makes an AI search tool that yields impressively detailed and well-organized answers. It’s popular with tech-world insiders and is catching on with normies, too. The company is a David to Go
Hinge’s latest product rollout represents a big bet on quality over quantity.
The Match Group-owned dating giant is testing a new feature that requires singles with eight or more unanswered messages to either reply to a match or end a conversation before they can make any new connections. This means users with a backlog of conversations won’t be able to send new likes or accept matches from new suitors.
U.S. auto safety regulators said on Tuesday they have opened an investigation into the performance of Alphabet’s Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports of its robotaxis exhibiting driving behavior that potentially violated traffic safety laws.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its preliminary evaluation into an estimated 444
It was Election Day in the crucial voter battleground of Maricopa County, Arizona, and by 11:15 a.m., inside a windowless convention center ballroom bustling with Arizona election officials, federal agents, and a smattering of reporters, I was already beginning to panic.
Moments before, election offices across the state had received an AI-generated phone call from the secretary of state’s office. In an uncanny monotone, a voice clone imitating the assistant secretary said the state
The U.S. and China will meet in Geneva to discuss artificial intelligence on Tuesday and U.S. officials stressed that Washington’s policies would not be up for negotiation as talks explore how to mitigate risks from the emerging technology.
President Joe Biden’s administration has sought to engage China on a
SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, as billionaire Elon Musk‘s space venture rapidly expands its rocket and satellite business across the Lone Star state.
But a Reuters review of Texas property records shows that SpaceX and its contractors can be far slower to pay builders and suppliers than they are
Cruise is bringing supervised autonomous driving back to Phoenix this week, more than six months after the company pulled all of its self-driving cars off the road following regulatory scrutiny.
“Safety is the defining principle for everything we do and continues to guide our progress towards resuming driverless operations,” the company wrote in a blog po
Kansas could soon offer up to $5 million in grants for schools to outfit surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence systems that can spot people carrying guns. But the governor needs to approve the expenditures and the schools must meet some very specific criteria.
The AI software must be patented, “designated as qualified anti-terrorism technology,̶
The voice Alexis “Lexi” Bogan had before last summer was exuberant.
She loved to belt out Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan ballads in the car. She laughed all the time — even while corralling misbehaving preschoolers or debating politics with friends over a backyard fire pit. In high school, she was a soprano in the chorus.
Then that voice was gone.
Doctors in August removed a life-threatening tumor lodged near the back of her brain. When the breathing tu
OpenAI held a webcast Monday to roll out a new version of its free ChatGPT app, which sounds and acts a lot like the AI in the 2013 Spike Jonze film, Her.
The experience is powered by a new version of its GPT-4 large language model—available on desktop and mobile—called GPT-4o (“GPT-four-oh”). The new model, OpenAI says,