An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments
At first glance, a recent batch of research papers produced by a prominent artificial intelligence lab at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver might not...
TikTok Sued by US Justice Department for Alleged Violations of Kids’ Privacy
In March 2019, TikTok agreed to a US federal court order barring the social media giant from collecting personal information from its youngest users without their...
A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI
When Meta released its large language model Llama 3 for free this April, it took outside developers just a couple days to create a version without...
Trump’s Crypto Embrace Could Be a Disaster for Bitcoin
Donald Trump is an unlikely crypto ally. The power of bitcoin, embodied in Satoshi Nakamoto’s founding document, is that it frees participants from murky assessments of...
PowerWash Simulator’s developers accidentally gave Steam players a free update
The surprise 2022 hit PowerWash Simulator has already seen loads of extra content like a DeLorean car washing DLC and even a special edition to aid...
The Morning After: What we’re expecting at Google’s 2024 Pixel event
Thanks to a string of leaks and Google’s own teases — usually following said leaks — we know we’ll get the official reveal of the Pixel...
AI startup argues scraping every song on the internet is ‘fair use’
When most tech companies are challenged with a lawsuit, the expected defense is to deny wrongdoing. To give a reasonable explanation of why the business’ actions...
The Republican National Committee loses its legal challenge to Gmail
A federal judge dismissed a case brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) against Google over its Gmail service. The suit alleged that Google’s email platform...
Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk and X
When Don Lemon’s “premium” video hosting deal on X was canceled in March, a representative for the former CNN anchor threatened legal action. Nearly five months...
Intel Is Cutting More Than 15,000 Jobs Despite Getting Billions From the US Government
In a move likely to raise a few taxpayer eyebrows, Intel said today that it will cut 15 percent of its workforce, or more than 15,000...