Revel—the startup that pivoted to EV rideshare after encountering a hang-up or two trying to rent mopeds—has been tapped as the latest partner in Uber’s urgent quest to hit zero emissions for trips in certain regions. Both companies announced Wednesday that they’ve formed an exclusive partnership to optimize New York City’s dismal EV-charging infrastructure.
The multiyear deal gives Uber—which has vowed to make all rides in North America ele
The cryptocurrency industry has poured millions of dollars into electioneering efforts this election season, and the bet already seems to be paying off. On Super Tuesday, where voters in 16 states and 2 territories went to the polls, crypto’s boosters collected their first big wins of the cycle, especially in the contested Democratic field for the open U.S. Senate seat in California.
Major players in the crypto industry reportedly poured $78 million into Super PACs this cycle
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OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk over lawsuit
In Elon Musk’s breach of contract lawsuit filed late last month against OpenAI, the billionaire raises a fair question: Why does OpenAI, a nonprofit entity, act so much like a for-profit one?
Since the public launch
Attorneys for Meta Platforms and several of its current and former leaders, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, are asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit alleging the company has deliberately failed to protect users of its social media platforms from human trafficking and child sexual exploitation.The lawsuit, filed last year by several investment funds, claims that Meta’s directors and senior executives have long known about rampant human trafficking and child sexual
Image creation tools powered by artificial intelligence from companies including OpenAI and Microsoft can be used to produce photos that could promote election or voting-related disinformation, despite each having policies against creating misleading content, researchers said in a report on Wednesday.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that monitors online hate speech, used generative-AI tools to create images of U.S. President Joe Biden laying in a hospital
Sama 2.0, the first digital cabin crew member of Qatar Airways, may also be the future of airline customer experiences.
Unveiled at the ITB conference in Berlin, the AI assistant is game-like and armed with a range of expressions and simulated breathing—and will provide comprehensive assistance to passengers on various topics, from on-board services to travel information. Qatar Airways calls it “the first digital human in aviation.”
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Back in 2018, at Google’s I/O conference, I attended a session on the concept of Artificial General Intelligence—AI algorithms that could demonstrate humanlike fluency at all sorts of reasoning tasks, not just those it had been specifically trained to perform. Sitting in the back of a packed audience, my mind was suitably boggled at the prospect. And it would have been more boggled still if I knew that less than six years later, reasonable people would be debating whether AGI wa
OpenAI shot back at accusations from Elon Musk that the ChatGPT maker betrayed its founding goals of benefiting humanity and chose to pursue profits, vowing to get his lawsuit thrown out.The first comments from OpenAI since the Tesla CEO sued last week have escalated the feud between the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company and the billionaire that bankrolled its creation years ago.“The mission of OpenAI is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, which means both buildin
“If you don’t have the right connections, you can’t raise capital,” says a very passionate Stephanie von Behr into the center of my Zoom screen. As one of three cofounders of Founderland, a nonprofit headquartered in Berlin, she is partially responsible for creating one of the fastest-growing communities of female founders of color in the world, which now serves more than 600 women in more than 26 countries in Europe.
von Behr met Alina Bassi and Deborah
In his quest to make X into an “everything app,” last week Elon Musk gave free audio and video calling to all users—not merely the 650,000 subscribers who pay to use the platform, but literally all 1.3 billion accounts.
What a noble act, some may think, except that a privacy issue emerged almost immediately. The new feature was activated by default, without notifying users. And now, users are discovering not only that X has exposed their data to other users, but