
Los Angeles Times - 1 day 7 hours ago
Santa Monica resident Rojia Shahsavani said she witnessed three boys taking selfies and sitting on the open window ledges of a white Waymo that traveled from Santa Monica into West L.A. last Friday.

NBC News - 1 day 8 hours ago
NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to California Institute of Technology Professor John Preskill about President Trump's executive order calling for a quantum computer. Preskill talks about what he hopes comes out of the order and what to look out for.

Newser - 1 day 9 hours ago
China just yanked back a marquee tech title the US has mostly owned for decades, the New York Times reports. A new machine called LineShine, housed in the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, has been named the world's fastest supercomputer after testing more than 20% quicker than El Capitan at California's...

NBC News - 1 day 10 hours ago
An AI-generated replica of actor Michael Caine's voice will narrate a new edition of the "Odyssey," produced by the company ElevenLabs. The London-based company, which launched in 2023, has ramped up its efforts to woo talent as it seeks to win over creatives wary of AI.

New York Times - 1 day 11 hours ago
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, is making a broader push to create new types of apps based on emerging social behavior online.

Variety - 1 day 12 hours ago
Nex and SEGA are partnering up to bring "Sonic Forces" to Nex Playground later this year. The upcoming title introduces Sonic the Hedgehog to the platform in celebration of the franchise's 35th anniversary. "Sonic Forces" (a working title) reimagines the running and action gameplay, offering a replayable, physically active experience. The game is built by […]...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 12 hours ago
Share prices in big AI players such as Nvidia and Micron Technology dropped on Tuesday as investors grow wary about whether massive AI spending will pay off.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 13 hours ago
As labels strike deals with AI start-ups, advocacy groups warn that the artists whose voices and work make those deals valuable are being shut out.

Variety - 1 day 17 hours ago
The idea for a new AI animation studio came to Mark Stern through podcasts. Stern, the former head of original content for Syfy, was trying to figure out a way three years ago to visually augment the podcasts native to his studio Echoverse when he and his business partner, former ABC and WME chairman Lloyd […]...

GeekSpin - 1 day 21 hours ago
More than 1,000 workers at General Motors’ flagship Detroit assembly plant were idled, many of them indefinitely, as the company installed 50 robots. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is calling the move exactly what it appears to be: automation is displacing people. The robots in question, known as “cobots” (short for collaborative robots), have […] Read the original article here: Unions are furious after GM replaces 1,000 workers with 50 robots...

Newser - 1 day 22 hours ago
Falun Gong practitioners who say US-based Cisco helped China hunt them down can't press their case in American courts, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, per the Washington Post . In a 6-3 vote, the justices reversed a lower appeals court decision that sided with Falun Gong members, report the New...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 22 hours ago
Imagine sitting down at your desk and logging in for a performance review, with an AI system analyzing the conversation. You've been working long hours, balancing deadlines, and your manager asks how you're doing. You say you're fine, and maybe even smile, but there's a hint of hesitation and your voice wavers. As you shift your posture, your shoulders slump. These are subtle cues that to the human eye might hint at underlying stress. But to an AI model that's been trained only...

Vox - 2 days 5 min ago
This story was originally published in The Highlight . To get access to member-exclusive stories like this every month, become a Vox Member today . There are many ways to bomb a college commencement speech. You can tell everyone you composed the talk while high on ayahuasca , like Chris Pan at Ohio State. You can deliver the entirety of your speech in the voices of your incredibly annoying cartoon characters , like Tom Kenny and Bill Fagerbakke at the University of Vermont. You can even, like my...

Newser - 2 days 4 hours ago
A group of California drivers says gas prices didn't just creep up they were pushed there by algorithms. In a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in Sacramento, motorists accuse major operators including BP, Circle K, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart, Albertsons, and software firm Kalibrate of using an AI-based pricing...