
AI models are getting smarter. Inference is getting faster. Hardware is getting better. Unfortunately, in this AI race, women are once again being left behind or sidelined entirely.
One of the first first textbooks on AI was actually p

The weather is getting warmer, which means lots of us have started thinking about summer travel. Today, Google is rolling out a handful of new features for Google Maps with the goal of making some of that planning a little easier.
Now when you’re researching places to visit, you can pull up a curated list of things to do within a particular city within Google Maps. The featu

Presidential longshot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that he has selected Nicole Shanahan as his vice-presidential running mate in his independent bid for the White House. Shanahan, an attorney and entrepreneur who is well-known in tech circles, has never before sought public office.
For Kennedy, it caps a long search for a prospective running mate that set the political rumor mill on fire in an otherwise repetitive election cycle. Still, many Americans may not be familiar

While you’re likely being inundated with political ads on your television, radio, and even your street corner, there’s one place you might have noticed that is relatively light on political content: Instagram.
In a blog post in early February, Instagram owner Meta announced plans to remove political content from its recommendation surfaces across Instagram and Threads. At the time, the company said “we don’t want to get between you and their posts, but we

Trump Media & Technology Group, the Donald Trump-backed media organization behind Truth Social, is off to a soaring start in its public debut, and the former president is set to reap billions off its Nasdaq performance.
But a new study suggests that Truth Social is still sorely lacking when it comes to political effectiveness. Research published in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics looked at the question of whether Trump has been able to leverage Truth Social into fre

A new AI feature from Grammarly can look over your business writing before you hit send, offering “strategic suggestions” designed to make your messages clearer and more impactful.
Whether you’re writing in a Gmail tab, a word processor, or even a chat tool like Slack, the new feature, which is gradually being rolled out to Grammarly’s paid customers, is designed to detect when you’re roughly done with a piece of business writing. Then, Grammarly&#

Hackers linked to the Chinese government launched a sweeping, state-backed operation that targeted U.S. officials, journalists, corporations, pro-democracy activists and the U.K.’s election watchdog, American and British authorities said Monday in announcing a set of criminal charges and sanctions.The intention of the campaign, which officials say began in 2010, was to harass critics of the Chinese government, steal trade secrets of American corporations and to spy on and track high-le

Almost a year after launching AI capabilities for its platform, Airtable is adding new features allowing businesses to use its AI on a larger scale. Not only that, but Airtable AI is now out of the beta stage, and is available to all new and existing customers.
Airtable’s expanded capabilities now allow users to tap into AI enhancements within several of its individual features, but what businesses and enterprises will likely find the most useful is that Airtable AI will inte

When Microsoft announced last week that it had hired two of the three founders of Inflection AI, as well as most of the startup’s employees, little was known about the deal except that it also contained guarantees for the startup’s investors, and that the tech giant also bought the rights to sell access to Inflection’s most powerful model. Now, more details are starting to come to light.
Microsoft paid Inflection AI $620 million for the non-exclusive right to se

A U.S. lawmaker involved in health policy has asked the Food and Drug Administration why it did not inspect Elon Musk’s Neuralink before allowing the brain implant company to test its device in humans.
Reuters reported last month that FDA inspectors found problems with record keeping and quality controls for animal experiments at Neuralink last June, less than a month after the startup said it was cleared to test its brain implants in humans.
Neuralink, which first