Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined “Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns.”
The problem was, no such shooting took place. The Bridgeton, New Jersey police department posted a statement on Facebook on December 27 dismissing the article — produced using
On June 7, shareholders of Nvidia will have a significant number of additional shares in their portfolio as the chipmaker enacts a 10-to-1 stock split. It’s an opportunity for the company to make its shares more affordable—and, ideally, to send them on yet another journey to the stratosphere, following its most recent journey which saw its market share come close to Apple’s, threatening
For anyone skeptical about crypto hype, Sheila Warren explains why it’s here to stay and what you might be overlooking. As CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, Warren takes us inside today’s crypto resurgence, in which one out of five Americans hold crypto in some fashion. Warren shares the story behind Congress’s recent bipartisan crypto bill, and how the industry is cracking down on bad actors and get-rich-quick schemes. Plus, how crypto is part of the underlying tech behind a “new in
Nintendo’s Switch might be a portable gaming device for some, but for old school players, the Game Boy will always be the gold standard of handheld gaming. Now, Palmer Luckey, one of the most controversial figures in the tech world, is hoping to bring it back.
Luckey, who made virtual reality relevant again with the Oculus and went on to found Anduril, a defense contracting firm that makes letha
Microsoft on Tuesday said it will introduce new artificial intelligence tools for customer service call centers.
Microsoft, which has backed ChatGPT creator OpenAI, is taking AI technology into a number of fields of the business world with what it calls Copilot technology, which is
Another day, another open letter: Current and former staff members at OpenAI and a handful of other companies issued on Tuesday a warning about growing recklessness and secrecy at some of the world’s biggest AI developers.
According to those who signed the “Right to Warn” letter, which includes current and former staff members at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, the open letter is designed to ensure the public is aware of the risks posed
Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450 million in funding from returning investors such as Nvidia and Salesforce Ventures, as well as new investors including Cisco and Canadian pension fund PSP Investments, according to a source familiar the matter.
This concludes the first tranche of Cohere’s monthslong fundraising efforts, while the company is still in talks to raise more in the sam
When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death.
She told him one of the things she’d miss most is being able to ask him questions whenever she wants because he is so well read and always shares his wisdom, Bommer recalled during a recent interview with The Associated Press at his home in a leafy Berlin suburb.
That conversation sparked an idea for Bomm
Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase. High prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking points, a new poll shows.
About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say they would be at least