
IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 1 hour 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...

Variety - 1 day 1 hour ago
StoReel, the AI-native short-form drama platform, has unveiled Canvas, an end-to-end production and monetization environment aimed at the next wave of microdrama creators. The launch comes on the heels of a $34 million seed and user-acquisition financing round and represents the company’s push toward a full-stack ecosystem linking creators, technology, and audiences. Canvas collapses what […]...

Vox - 1 day 3 hours 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 - 1 day 7 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...

NY Post - 1 day 14 hours ago
Left-leaning website Wikipedia took the drastic action of blocking one of its founders from editing pages on Monday after he had campaigned to make it more balanced and fair.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 17 hours ago
These alternative screen designs feature matte, anti-glare displays that make static art look just as good as your favorite movie.

NY Post - 1 day 17 hours ago
It was a real robo flop.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 17 hours ago
Overbuilt, but not overhyped.

Observer - 1 day 19 hours ago
Yann LeCun explains why his startup AMI Labs is pursuing world models, not just larger language models, in a bid to reach human-level A.I.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 19 hours ago
Artificial intelligence is the transformative, strategic technology of the early 21st century. It is significantly reshaping practically every aspect of our lives, including in ways that probably no one anticipated. Its rate of adoption and impact have been unprecedented when compared with other technologies. AI as a distinct field was formally established in 1956 at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence , proposed by John McCarthy , Marvin Minsky , Nathaniel Rochester...

NY Post - 1 day 21 hours ago
With the help of these tools, children with rare illnesses and symptoms may now find answers in a much shorter time frame than before.

New York Times - 1 day 22 hours ago
From left: Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, was interviewed by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton for "Hard Fork Live" last week at the Blue Shield of California Theater in San Francisco.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 23 hours ago
Editor-tested gear is already deeply discounted.

GeekSpin - 2 days 31 min ago
Apple’s products are about to get more expensive, and Tim Cook has finally said so out loud. The outgoing chief executive, who is set to step down as CEO in September after 15 years and transition to executive chairman, told the Wall Street Journal that price increases have become unavoidable due to a steep climb […] Read the original article here: Apple warns price increases are now unavoidable...

The Conversation - 2 days 1 hour ago
Several scientific fields rely on visual evidence to illustrate their claims. Inaccurate AI-generated images put the credibility of science at risk.

The Conversation - 2 days 1 hour ago
As one piece of more than a century of baseball traditions, eye black is part science experiment, part routine and part uniform.

GeekSpin - 2 days 2 hours ago
Your password may already be in the wrong hands. Cybersecurity experts have uncovered an exposed, unprotected database containing an estimated 24 billion email-password combinations, compiled from past data breaches, dark web sources, and infostealer malware. The dataset represents a powerful tool for cybercriminals, enabling large-scale automated attacks that can quickly compromise active accounts. As this […] Read the original article here: 24 billion passwords and emails exposed in massive...

New Scientist - 2 days 2 hours ago
The next generation of AI models are meant to be trained by people paid to have conversations with them, but several of these workers have admitted to New Scientist that they simply get chatbots to do it instead. This "AI inbreeding" may reduce the power and usefulness of future models, warn experts...

Vox - 2 days 3 hours ago
Trump and the AI-generated picture he posted on his Truth Social platform depicting himself as Jesus Christ. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The Antichrist is back in American political discourse. After President Donald Trump posted an AI photo of himself depicted as Jesus on Truth Social, many of his Christian followers were up in arms. Trump later claimed that he was supposed to be a doctor in the photo, but the damage was already done. Prominent far-right advocates like Marjorie Taylor Greene...

New York Times - 2 days 10 hours ago
In the Storage settings, Apple's iOS software for iPad and iPhone shows how much of the device's storage is being used and offers several ways to reclaim space.