U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.Read More
Month: June 2024
The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was just an A.I. chop...
How Electric Car Batteries Might Aid the Grid (and Win Over Drivers)
Automakers are exploring energy storage as a way to help utilities and save customers money, turning an expensive component into an industry asset.Read More
How to Trace Your Ancestry Using Your Phone’s Free Tools
Everyday tools and free apps on your mobile device can help you collect, translate and digitize new material for your family-tree files.Read More
Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials...
A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.
The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased.Read More
OpenAI Whistleblowers Describe Reckless and Secretive Culture
A group of current and former employees are calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.Read...
Can Artificial Intelligence Rethink Art? Should it?
There is an increasing overlap between art and artificial intelligence. Some celebrate it, while others worry.Read More
Elon Musk’s Starlink Connects and Divides Brazil’s Marubo People
Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.Read More