The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that it had launched a generative AI tool, Elsa, aimed at improving efficiency across its operations, i
If you think drones are noisy in flight, try building and testing them. During a visit last month to the drone startup Zipline’s factory in South San Francisco, California, industrial noise welled up in corners of the facility—the roar of a wind tunnel, the rhythmic clack of a test rig simulating motor casing wear, and other mechanical sounds in a symphony of engineering.
Zipline has to subject its delivery drones to that kind of abus
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I’ve been curious lately: How might AI help my former students—and so many others looking for new jobs—in a challenging and complicated market?
My conclusion: AI tools can serve as patient assista
The Little Engine That Could wasn’t the most powerful train, but she believed in herself. The story goes that, as she set off to climb a steep mountain, she repeated: “I think I can, I think I can.”
That simple phrase from a children’s story still holds a lesson for today’s business world—especially when it comes to artificial int
It’s official: Mozilla has announced that its extremely handy read-it-later app Pocket will be shutting down on July 8, 2025, with user data exports available until October 8, 2025.
If this leaves you looking for a new home for your saved articles, videos, and web pages, the good news is you’ve still got plenty of excellent options.
Here are five solid alter
The moderators behind a pro-artificial intelligence subreddit say they have been banning users who appear to be experiencing chatbot-fueled delusions.
“LLMs today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities to convince them that they’ve made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or be
Last year, Donald Trump took the stage of the ">Las Vegas Bitcoin Conference to worship at the altar of cryptocurrency. He said he would fire Gary Gensler, the former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission who led a yearslong crackdown on crypto fraud. The audience roared. He ended on a rousing note: “We will make America and Bitcoin bigger, better, stronger, richer, freer, and greater than ever before.”
Some crypto
Going into my time reviewing the Google Pixel 9a, I had this grand idea to transform myself into “AI Man.”
Google has made a big to-do about how it’s reimagining Android with AI at the core, and the $500 Pixel 9a is now the cheapest entry point into Google’s Gemini AI ecosystem. In the past
Jeffrey Katzenberg has long backed ambitious ventures—from cofounding animation studio DreamWorks to championing digital innovation through his investment firm WndrCo. Now, he’s supporting a bold new vision for the future of advertising. WndrCo has co-led a $15.5 million Series A investment in Creatify, an AI video ad platform that has quietly reached $9 million in annual recurring revenue just 18 months after launch.
Co-led alongside Kindred Vent
(Corrects paragraph 3 to say 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March, not April)
The founder of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, has asked a U.S. judge to reopen an auction for the genetic testing comp