If you thought artificial intelligence was inescapable last year, just wait.
OpenAI might have skipped this year’s CES, but AI is still everywhere at the show—and, before long, many of the products on display here will be making their way to retail. Some of those products have an obvious real-world value, but others might seem a bit of a stretch. Either way, even if you’ve avoided dabbling in AI so far, it’s only going to get harder and harder to circumve
There’s one thing that television viewers can count on in 2024: higher fees and more commercials.
The major streaming services—Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Max—have all announced rate hikes and new advertising policies.
As I show in my new book, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News, the streaming boom that has imperiled cable television is actually built upon the very same business m
On the same day that Apple announced it would start shipping its new Apple Vision Pro headset in the U.S. on February 2, the brand launched a new ad to hype the mixed-reality piece of hardware.
Created by TBWA Media Arts Lab, the spot is called “Get Ready,” and is a pop culture ride th
Thanks to the hype around ChatGPT, we’ve entered a weird new world in which generative AI tools are suddenly everywhere.
But this AI tool boom has just as quickly become a glut, with countless copycat services and ones that demand up-front payment just to see what they’re about. Trying out generative AI tools is a great way to understand their upsides and limitations—and yes, there are many limitations, despite the hype—but it can be hard to know where to
Carta, a fintech startup that rode its message of democratizing startup ownership to a $7.4 billion valuation, is facing mounting blowback after a client accused one of the company’s sales employees of trying to use confidential customer information to broker trades.
Carta has been celebrated by Fast Company and others for giving startup employees the tools to reap the benefits when their companies go public. It primarily makes software used by many early-stage ventures to tr
The media industry ended 2023 in rough shape, with a series of layoffs that saw more than 20,000 people lose their jobs. So what do the next 12 months have in store for journalism and the sector at large? Each year, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford releases its predictions for the year ahead, courtesy of senior research associate Nic Newman.
Unfortunately, Newman’s forecast—which is based on a survey of 314 media leaders fro
England’s 1,000-year-old legal system—still steeped in traditions that include wearing wigs and robes—has taken a cautious step into the future by giving judges permission to use artificial intelligence to help produce rulings.
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary last month said AI could help write opinions but stressed it shouldn’t be used for research or legal analyses because the technology can fabricate information and provide misleading, inaccurate an
The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed toward the moon Monday, launching private companies on a space race to make deliveries for NASA and other customers.
Astrobotic Technology’s lander caught a ride on a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan. The Vulcan streaked through the Florida predawn sky, putting the spacecraft on a roundabout route to the moon that should culminate with an attempted landing on February 23.
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Instacart is rolling out ads on its AI-powered shopping carts, the company said Monday. It pushes the grocery delivery company even further into the ever-important, revenue-generating advertising segment that’s bolstered the company’s bottom line.
Instacart will start piloting ads on its Caper Carts at Good Fold Holdings’ Bristol Farms stores in Southern California. Launch partners include Del Monte Foods, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, and General Mills, the
Large language models say the darnedest things. As much as large language models (LLMs for short) like ChatGPT, Claude or Bard have amazed the world with their ability to answer a whole host of questions, they’ve also shown a disturbing propensity to spit out information created out of whole cloth. They’ve falsely accused someone of seditious conspiracy, leading to a lawsuit. They’ve made up facts or fake scientific studies. These are hallucinations, a term that has gener