Watch Meta’s New ‘Audio To Expression’ Quest SDK Feature In Action
Meta shared a clip showing the new Audio To Expression feature introduced in Quest v71 in action. Audio To Expression is an on-device AI model that...
To Fight AI Search Spam, Prioritize Real Human Voices
At some point in the future, AIs may create works of art, music, and writing that rival human-created ones. For now, what’s most impressive about most...
Temu’s Takeover Is Now Complete
Love it or hate it, you have to admit Temu had a banger year. Launched in late 2022, the Chinese-owned ecommerce site, known for selling a...
How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank
Buttu, who regularly travels to the city of Ramallah in the West Bank from her home in Haifa, Israel, for work and to visit friends, says...
AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines
In 2025, it will be commonplace to talk with a personal AI agent that knows your schedule, your circle of friends, the places you go. This...
The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs
I asked Amko Leenart, director of design for Ford Europe, about why Ford used VW’s woeful controls in both the Explorer and the Capri, and he...
Google Says It Won’t Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal
If Google’s generative AI Gemini Assistant chatbot is to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT in popularity in the coming years, it may have to do so without some...
OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills
OpenAI today announced an improved version of its most capable artificial intelligence model to date—one that takes even more time to deliberate over questions—just a day...
I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping
In its initial responses, ChatGPT didn’t provide any links to products. But it easily supplied them when I asked, and while I didn’t click on every...
Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness
Generative AI took the world by storm in November 2022, with the release of OpenAI’s service ChatGPT. One hundred million people started using it, practically overnight....