Google has been touting the myriad innovations in the first building wholly designed and built by the web giant, even moving workers in to focus on its highest-profile project: generative artificial intelligence. But, some say they wish the innovations had included decent Wi-Fi.
The “Bay View” building, located on the Alphabet unit’s Mountain View, California, headquarters, has been plagued for months by inoperable or, at best, spotty Wi-Fi, according to six peo
The latest step forward in the development of large language models (LLMs) took place earlier this week, with the release of a new version of Claude, the LLM developed by AI company Anthropic—whose founders left OpenAI in late 2020 over concerns about the company’s pace of development.
But alongside the release of Claude 3, which sets new records in popular tests used to assess the prowess of LLMs, there was a second, more unusual innovation. Two days after Anthropic r
Microsoft is offering an update into the hack it first reported in January—and things aren’t looking good. The tech giant says state-sponsored hackers, backed by Russia, are still trying to access its systems and successfully stole “some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems.”
The hackers, who call themselves Midnight Blizzard or Nobelium, were also responsible for the SolarWinds attack that compromised the Treasury and Com
The hotel was spacious. It was upscale. It had a karaoke bar. The perfect venue, the CEO of the Chinese hacking company thought, to hold a Lunar New Year banquet currying favor with government officials. There was just one drawback, his top deputy said.“Who goes there?” the deputy wrote. “The girls are so ugly.”So goes the sordid wheeling and dealing that takes place behind the scenes in China’s hacking industry, as revealed in a highly unusual leak last mon
It was a pretty bad week for social media sites across the board. Nearly every big-name social media platform experienced an outage over the last five days (well, except for one, which we’ll get to in a bit).
Perhaps worse than the downtime, though, were the conspiracy theories speculating that these outages were connected to major events in American politics.
First, you had Super Tuesday, the largest grouping of presidential primary elections in the United States i
At first glance, images circulating online showing former President Donald Trump surrounded by groups of Black people smiling and laughing seem nothing out of the ordinary, but a look closer is telling.Odd lighting and too-perfect details provide clues to the fact they were all generated using artificial intelligence. The photos, which have not been linked to the Trump campaign, emerged as Trump seeks to win over Black voters who polls show remain loyal to President Joe Biden.The fabricated i
No matter where you may be—including the very real likelihood of “a perpetual state of confusion,” as is the case for me—the start of March means the start of the spring travel season.
And whether you’ve got a work or personal trip coming up soon or you’re just dreaming of a getaway at some theoretical point in the future, good golly, have I got a great new tool for you to tuck away in your metaphorical luggage.
It’s an AI-p
Joe Montana is best known for winning four Super Bowls during the 1980s as the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, but he’s now cementing a new legacy as a top-tier investor.
Montana tops the list of celebrity VCs, recently released by CB Insights, with a whopping 569 deals since 2020, and he’s also managed to back 10 unicorn companies during that time frame. Montana is the founder and managing partner at Liquid 2 Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC fund. Actor Asht
Jamey Simpson was 10 when he watched the space shuttle lift off from Kennedy Space Center with his mother, astronaut Cady Coleman, on board. A voice from a handheld radio counted down as fire spewed from the rocket and propelled it skyward in a chest-crushing roar.
Now 23, Jamey recalls the existential weight that followed. “It was in that moment, I realized, `My mom is really gone and she’s not on the planet anymore.’”
Space: The Longest Goodby
Courtney June no longer reaches for her phone when she’s in need of a camera. These days the 24-year-old uses a point-and-shoot digital camera to capture life mementoes and nights out with friends.
June, who’s based in Pennsylvania, is among the growing hoard of Gen Zers whose obsession with 2000s culture has in turn breathed new life into physical cameras and minimalist smartphones, both of which were emblems of the era. “Everyone’s photos kind of look t