Even amusement parks are using AI: Six Flags announces a digital makeover

Six Flags is aiming to change the way guests interact with its parks—including using artificial intelligence to support those changes.

On Monday the amusement park giant announced what it called a “complete digital transformation” of its operations, updating everything from its rides to its website. It’s also introducing an AI-driven “digital concierge” that will live on the company’s app and website.

“Our guests are at the heart of everything we do, and this

Yelp is releasing an AI tool that will create restaurant review videos based on user feedback

Twenty years in, Yelp is turning to AI to help bring restaurant reviews to life.

The reviews behemoth is testing AI to create short narrated videos describing local businesses by stitching together the photos, videos, and text descriptions that users have already uploaded to the platform.

It’s part of an ongoing push by Yelp to process the hundreds of millions of reviews it’s collected with large language model AI to hel

Largest wireless carriers fined nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers nearly $200 million for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information.

The FCC is finalizing fines first proposed in February 2020, including $80 million for T-Mobile; $12 million for Sprint, which T-Mobile has since acquired; $57 million

ChatGPT wants to remember everything you’ve told it

OpenAI announced on Monday that its popular ChatGPT chatbot will now remember user details including basic information, hobbies, and prompt history. The chatbot’s enhanced memory will be available only to subscribers of the $20/month ChatGPT Plus service.

Memory is now avai

U.S. regulator says self-driving vehicles not ready for prime time as Tesla inks China deal

In China this weekend, Elon Musk snagged the biggest green light yet for Full Self-Driving mode, the advanced software that Tesla claims equips its EVs to drive themselves almost anywhere with minimal human intervention.

Tesla’s market performance has been underwhelming lately, and news of a major deal to offer autonomous driving in Earth’s largest and most competitive EV ma

Ghosted, orbited, breadcrumbed: Digital dating is hard. Here’s how to cope

Buzzwords describing the digital dating scene are all over social media. Have you been ghosted? Is someone orbiting you? Are you being breadcrumbed? While these dating patterns may not be new, the words to describe them continue to evolve.

As a psychotherapist, I see firsthand the impact these experiences can have on mental

How China’s citizens are coping with digital surveillance

Do you ever think about the digital footprint you leave when you are browsing the web, shopping online, commenting on social networks, or going by a facial recognition camera?

State surveillance of citizens is growing all ov

TikTok ban: These rival apps will compete for users’ attention

Adult U.S. TikTok users spend an average of 54 minutes on the app on any given day, more than Instagram, Snapchat or YouTube, according to research firm eMarketer. If TikTok were to disappear, those platforms — along with younger, smaller emerging rivals — would

3 reasons the Global AI Safety Summit can’t live up to the hype

Last year, a who’s who of world leaders, corporate executives and academic experts gathered at Britain’s Bletchley Park for the world’s first global AI Safety Summit, hoping to reach consensus on the regulation of a technology some warned posed a threat to humanity.

Tesla mogul Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rubbed shoulders with some of their

4 reasons why Tesla’s Full Self-Driving rollout in China matters

Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday on an unannounced visit, where he was expected to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving (FSD) software and permission to transfer data overseas, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

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