Imagine if Congress had a clear-eyed guide to the technological upheavals shaping our lives. A team of in-house experts who could have flagged the risks of generative AI before ChatGPT went public, raised alarms about deepfakes
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When you think about it, training AI to use the web might be the single most impactful way to expand its power. So much of what we do today—from buying products of all kinds to managing every aspect of our personal data—we do online. If a piece of software could handle that work
New technologies usually follow the technology adoption life cycle. Innovators and early adopters rush to embrace new technologies, while laggards and skeptics jump in much later.
At first glance, it looks like artific
If you’ve ever fancied yourself a contestant on American Idol, you can now audition for the newest singing competition—without ever leaving home.
In partnership with iHeartRadio, TikTok announced its Next Up: Live Music singing competition on July 28, with
How many McDonald’s locations do you think you’ve been to across the U.S.? Ten, maybe twenty? One TikTok creator is aiming to hit all 13,589 of them.
Posting under the handle @donnyboys10, the creator kicked off the challenge last July and has sin
Nvidia said on Thursday its products have no “backdoors” that would allow remote access or control after China raised concerns over potential security risks in the firm’s H20 artificial intelligence chip.
The Cyberspace Administration of China, the cou
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was created in 1914 to protect consumers from corporate overreach. Under Donald Trump, the 110-year-old bipartisan agency is now being converted into a weapon of censorship and repression for the administration to wield against its political enemies.
Last week, the FTC hosted a “workshop” with the unambiguous goal of spreading disinformation about one of the administration’s favorite targets: trans people. The event, which was titled The Dangers o
Tesla launched ride-hailing in San Francisco’s Bay Area on Thursday but did not mention using self-driving robotaxis for the service.
In a story in the Buddhist canon, a grief-stricken mother named Kisa Gautami loses her only child and carries the body around town, searching for some way to resurrect the child.
When she encounters the Buddha, he asks her to collect several mustard seeds from a family that has never experienced death. Not surprisingly, Kisa Gautami is unable to find a single such family. She buries her child and de