Smartphone chip kingpin Qualcomm is making an ambitious foray into a product category poised to play a major role in our lives in the years to come. Actually, it already does. Maybe you’ve heard of the device in question: It’s known as a “personal computer,” or “PC” for short.
What Qualcomm is launching is the Snapdragon X Elite, a silicon platform for laptops running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. It’s a system-on-a-chi
As Meta readies to report earnings this week, the social media company behind Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp has been hit with a massive lawsuit from 42 attorneys general in 33 states, including California and New York. The attorneys general accuse the company of harming young people’s mental health and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to its platforms. The lawsuit filed in federal
Is Bitcoin back? It appears so—at least for now.
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) edged past $35,000 this week—the highest it’s been since May 2022. After a prolonged “crypto winter,” this is welcome news to crypto traders and investors, many of whom are underwater on their holdings. While the $35,000 mark is still a long way from BTC’s peak value of more than $63,000 in the spring of 2021, it does represent a sizable bounceback. Bitcoin prices tu
At AI biotech company Owkin, cofounder and CEO Thomas Clozel is rethinking cancer and disease research through an entirely new lens—and aiming to break down barriers in healthcare along the way.
“The field of research in medicine is extremely siloed,” Clozel says. “Open innovation in health doesn’t really exist.” As a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical hematology, Clozel witnessed these silos firsthand. He sa
As concerns mount about AI’s risk to society, a human-first approach has emerged as an important way to keep AIs in check. That approach, called red-teaming, relies on teams of people to poke and prod these systems to make them misbehave in order to reveal vulnerabilities the developers can try to address. Red-teaming comes in lots of flavors, ranging from organically formed communities on social media to officially sanctioned government events to internal corporate efforts. Just recen
After amassing 10 million sign-ups for its AI presentation tool in just nine months, Tome is releasing new features aimed at getting those users to stick around.
Tome can turn text prompts into multi-page slideshows, and it credits TikTok chatter as a big part of its quick takeoff. The new version supports lengthier text prompts while giving users more control over each slide’s content and formatting. Future updates will let users import images and third-party data sources in
Senator Mark Warner is one of the most vocal and persuasive members of Congress where regulating the tech industry is concerned. This year, he’s been very engaged in helping the government find its way toward common-sense regulation of burgeoning AI technology, notably in the context of election disinformation. There are already signs that AI has been used to influence foreign elections, and concern is growing that new generative AI tools could be used to inject disinformation into nex
Dolgencorp, a subsidiary of Dollar General, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a shocking lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The suit alleged that Dollar General’s hiring process violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) in a number of ways.
The claims made in the lawsuit are troubling. The EEOC sued on behalf of 498 applicants, and claimed that, after making job offers
This week marks one year since Elon Musk strutted into Twitter’s San Francisco offices carrying an actual kitchen sink, grinning from ear to ear as he reluctantly closed his $44 billion purchase of the social network.
Things have changed significantly at Twitter since then. Twitter has the company laid off the majority of its staff, leaving the company woefully undermanned in areas like content moderation and government relations. In addition, Musk blew up the verification pr
Every semester, I ask my students to look at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Classification and think of which jobs can be automated using AI. This serves to inspire them to come up with their own startup venures. Quite often, customer service representatives and data-entry keyers come up in the list.
Indeed, generative AI has plenty of potential to automate many aspects of customer service. And other areas of AI, such as computer vision combined with natural langua