DoorDash stock hit a 52-week high Thursday, but quickly fell from that peak in after-hours trading as investors digested the company’s fourth-quarter earnings.
The delivery company reported a 39-cent-per-share loss, compared to analyst expectations of just 16 cents. That sent shares down more than 9.5% in the post-market at one point. The company, however, attempted to shift investor focus to the overall adjusted EBITA (earnings before interest, taxes and amortization). That
With the unveiling of a new text-to-video tool called Sora, OpenAI has joined Runway, Meta, Google and others in the race toward AI video that nears the quality of traditional live-action video.
Announcing Sora — our model which creates minute-long videos from a text
Stuck in a dating app loop with no date in sight? A lawsuit filed Wednesday against Match Group claims that is by design.
Tinder, Hinge, and other Match dating apps are filled with addictive features that encourage “compulsive” use, the proposed class-action lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of California on Wednesday—Valentine’s Day—says Match intentionally designs its dating platforms with game-
Meta’s AI researchers have released a new model that’s trained in a similar way as today’s large language models, but instead of learning from words, as today’s state-of-the-art language models do, it learns from video.
Yann LeCun, who leads Meta’s FAIR (foundational AI research) group, has been explaining over the past year that the reason children learn about the world so quickly is because they intake lots of information through their optical ne
Nvidia’s bet on smaller AI firms from healthcare companies Nano-X Imaging and Recursion to chipmaker Arm Holdings boosted their shares in premarket trading on Thursday.
Nvidia, the biggest winner of the AI boom, revealed its new stakes in the firms as of December 31 in a 13-F filing with the U.S. SEC late on Wednesday.
Fellow chip designer Arm Holdings drew the biggest investment from Nvidia, worth $147.3 million. The British company has said its processors compleme
General Motors is adding about 350,000 miles (563,000 kilometers) of roadways in the U.S and Canada to the area where drivers can use the company’s “Super Cruise” partially automated driving system.
The expansion nearly doubles the road miles where the system can run. It includes both limited-access divided highways as well as some two-lane roads connecting cities to smaller towns and smaller towns to each other, the company said.
GM said the driver-as
Just last week, Google unveiled its new AI chatbot lineup, featuring Gemini Advanced—its best bot, based on its most powerful large language model, Gemini 1.0 Ultra. But Gemini 1.0 Ultra’s reign as the company’s flagship LLM could turn out to be brief.
Today the company is announcing Gemini 1.5 Pro, an update to its middle-tier LLM. It says the improvements result in an LLM in the same zip code, power-wise, as Gemini 1.0 Ultra. And in a briefing for reporters on
It’s been another bad week for tech industry jobs. In recent days, several major tech companies have announced layoffs—a trend that has been ongoing since the beginning of the year. According to tech layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi, 144 tech companies have already laid off employees in 2024, amounting to 34,560 jobs lost. These are the latest major tech companies to announce job cuts this week:
Mozilla
On Tuesday, the maker of the Firefox web browser announced i
Eric Siegel is a consultant, speaker, and former Columbia University professor. He is the founder of the long-running Machine Learning Week conference series and executive editor of The Machine Learning Times. At Columbia, he won the Distinguished Faculty award when teaching graduate computer science courses in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Below, Siegel shares five key insights from his new book, The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning
Orange and fluffy, with two bulbous eyes forever locked into a morose stare, the orange alien plush named Pou has become an object of grim fascination on thousands of TikToks. Videos show Pou (or #pou, on the social media site) in all manner of dire situations: falling off snowbanks, drinking hard liquor, taking depression showers, even commiting suicide.
The hashtag has amassed over 5 billion views, and made the alien Pou something of a funereal icon among viewers. Pou, who first m