It was Election Day in the crucial voter battleground of Maricopa County, Arizona, and by 11:15 a.m., inside a windowless convention center ballroom bustling with Arizona election officials, federal agents, and a smattering of reporters, I was already beginning to panic.
Moments before, election offices across the state had received an AI-generated phone call from the secretary of state’s office. In an uncanny monotone, a voice clone imitating the assistant secretary said the state
The U.S. and China will meet in Geneva to discuss artificial intelligence on Tuesday and U.S. officials stressed that Washington’s policies would not be up for negotiation as talks explore how to mitigate risks from the emerging technology.
President Joe Biden’s administration has sought to engage China on a
SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, as billionaire Elon Musk‘s space venture rapidly expands its rocket and satellite business across the Lone Star state.
But a Reuters review of Texas property records shows that SpaceX and its contractors can be far slower to pay builders and suppliers than they are
Cruise is bringing supervised autonomous driving back to Phoenix this week, more than six months after the company pulled all of its self-driving cars off the road following regulatory scrutiny.
“Safety is the defining principle for everything we do and continues to guide our progress towards resuming driverless operations,” the company wrote in a blog po
Kansas could soon offer up to $5 million in grants for schools to outfit surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence systems that can spot people carrying guns. But the governor needs to approve the expenditures and the schools must meet some very specific criteria.
The AI software must be patented, “designated as qualified anti-terrorism technology,̶
The voice Alexis “Lexi” Bogan had before last summer was exuberant.
She loved to belt out Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan ballads in the car. She laughed all the time — even while corralling misbehaving preschoolers or debating politics with friends over a backyard fire pit. In high school, she was a soprano in the chorus.
Then that voice was gone.
Doctors in August removed a life-threatening tumor lodged near the back of her brain. When the breathing tu
OpenAI held a webcast Monday to roll out a new version of its free ChatGPT app, which sounds and acts a lot like the AI in the 2013 Spike Jonze film, Her.
The experience is powered by a new version of its GPT-4 large language model—available on desktop and mobile—called GPT-4o (“GPT-four-oh”). The new model, OpenAI says,
The first U.S. Apple Store to ever unionize has now voted to authorize a strike action against the iPhone maker.
Union members at the Apple retail store in Towson, MD, have voted to authorize a strike action, according to a press release from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (IAM CORE
Uber Technologies and Lyft are set to face trial on Monday in a U.S. lawsuit by Massachusetts’ attorney general alleging the ride-share companies misclassified their drivers as independent contractors rather than more costly
Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government’s highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents posted on its website Monday it will evaluate the automated driving system developed by