Apple shares rose 2% in premarket trading on Friday, after the iPhone maker’s quarterly results topped Wall Street expectations, indicating resilience in the face of
OpenAI has removed a controversial opt-in feature that had led to some private chats appearing in Google search results, following reporting by Fast Company that found sensitive conversations were becoming publicly accessible.
Earlier this week, Fast Company revealed that private ChatGPT conversations—some involving highly sensitive topics like drug use and sexual health—were unexpectedly
Imagine if Congress had a clear-eyed guide to the technological upheavals shaping our lives. A team of in-house experts who could have flagged the risks of generative AI before ChatGPT went public, raised alarms about deepfakes
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When you think about it, training AI to use the web might be the single most impactful way to expand its power. So much of what we do today—from buying products of all kinds to managing every aspect of our personal data—we do online. If a piece of software could handle that work
New technologies usually follow the technology adoption life cycle. Innovators and early adopters rush to embrace new technologies, while laggards and skeptics jump in much later.
At first glance, it looks like artific
If you’ve ever fancied yourself a contestant on American Idol, you can now audition for the newest singing competition—without ever leaving home.
In partnership with iHeartRadio, TikTok announced its Next Up: Live Music singing competition on July 28, with
How many McDonald’s locations do you think you’ve been to across the U.S.? Ten, maybe twenty? One TikTok creator is aiming to hit all 13,589 of them.
Posting under the handle @donnyboys10, the creator kicked off the challenge last July and has sin
Nvidia said on Thursday its products have no “backdoors” that would allow remote access or control after China raised concerns over potential security risks in the firm’s H20 artificial intelligence chip.
The Cyberspace Administration of China, the cou
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was created in 1914 to protect consumers from corporate overreach. Under Donald Trump, the 110-year-old bipartisan agency is now being converted into a weapon of censorship and repression for the administration to wield against its political enemies.
Last week, the FTC hosted a “workshop” with the unambiguous goal of spreading disinformation about one of the administration’s favorite targets: trans people. The event, which was titled The Dangers o