New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Have Llama 2-Based AI Voice Assistant
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses will have the newly announced Meta AI assistant onboard, though for US buyers only at first. At Meta Connect today the...
The Game Theory of the Auto Strikes
Everyone involved in the strike should be calculating what’s at stake to figure out what sort of offers they’d be willing to accept or make—in other...
How to Use ChatGPT’s New Image Features
ChatGPT definitely has its limits. When given a random photo of a mural, it couldn’t identify the artist or location; however, ChatGPT easily clocked where images...
5 Ways to Work Remotely (and Effectively) for the Long Haul
Covid-19 made remote work a reality for a lot of people, but for me, it was business as usual. I haven’t worked in a physical office...
Hey Zuck, Get Those Robots out of My Social Feed
When I bring up these concerns to Meta’s VP of generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, post-keynote, he accuses me of having “a dystopian point of view.” Adding...
The Rebel Drone Maker of Myanmar
“We needed weapons, and we needed them fast,” 3D says, sitting beneath the stalactites in a dimly lit cave, somewhere deep in the jungle in eastern...
The Global Victims of FTX’s Collapse Won’t Get their Day in Court
At first, Anand thought it was just a glitch. He’d read a few tweets saying that withdrawals from FTX—then the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world—had...
X Fires Its Election Team Before a Huge Election Year
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has fired its head of threat intelligence, Aaron Rodericks, and four other members of the team responsible for combating...
Six Months Ago Elon Musk Called for a Pause on AI. Instead Development Sped Up
Six months ago this week, many prominent AI researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on development of AI systems...
The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, Explained
Spooked by the revelation and perhaps sensing an opportunity to deal a blow to his rival, Zhao announced that Binance would sell off its own sizable...