A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026
1X's Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
Grokipedia, a Grok-based encyclopedia, launches with 885K+ articles, drawing from Wikipedia content; Elon Musk called it “a massive improvement” over Wikipedia
The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative, but it went down after about an hour.
xAI's Grokipedia says Grok fact-checked its entries and some “content is adapted from Wikipedia”; some pages, like the PS5's, are almost identical to Wikipedia
Some of Grokipedia's pages say that content is ‘adapted’ from Wikipedia.
An MIT study of 54 people: writing SAT essays using ChatGPT had the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google Search or no tools
Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT's Media Lab has returned some concerning results.
Documents: the NLRB froze Janneke Parrish's and Cher Scarlett's cases against Apple, pending a review after Trump nominated an Apple attorney as general counsel
National Labor Relations Board freezes pair of disputes after Crystal Carey nominated as agency's general counsel
Parents and US lawmakers are debating whether social media has fueled a teen suicide crisis, as mental health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans
Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers. Bluesky: @madelinevo.bsky.social and @ca...
Flux, an open-source AI image generator from the startup Black Forest Labs, goes viral for creating ultra-realistic images of people
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X activates a setting, on by default, that gives it permission to train Grok on user's posts; the setting can be turned off on the web but not in the mobile app
X's new experience is automatically set to opt-in and uses your data to train its Grok AI model.
FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions
CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers.
A look at the privacy and security concerns surrounding Microsoft's Recall, which will record everything users do in Windows for up to three months by default
a ‘privacy nightmare’? Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest : Hands on with Windows 11 Recall AI: Snappy performance, works without internet Iain Thomson / The Register : Was there no on...
IEEE stops accepting papers with the “Lenna image”, featuring a 1972 Playboy model, after complaints that it makes some women feel unwelcome in computer science
IEEE stops accepting papers with the “Lenna image”, featuring a 1972 Playboy model, after complaints that it makes some women feel unwelcome in computer science
Use of “Lenna” image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.
Reddit files to list its IPO on the NYSE, reporting revenue up 20% YoY to $804M in 2023, net loss down 43% YoY to $90.8M, 73M DAUs, and a $3.42 global ARPU
- Reddit on Thursday filed to go public. — Its market debut will mark the first major tech initial public offering of the year …
Google strikes a deal with Reddit, reportedly for $60M/year, gaining Reddit Data API access to surface more Reddit content in Search and to train its AI models
what you need to know Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap : Reddit Inks $60 Million-a-Year Deal To Train Google AI Ahead of Expected IPO | Report Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtabl...
Investigation: some US public housing agencies use surveillance cameras with facial recognition and other AI to evict residents, sometimes for minor violations
Surveillance cameras purchased with federal crime-fighting grants are being used to punish and evict public housing residents …
Sources detail how organizational dysfunction and a lack of ambition bogged down Apple's AI and ML efforts, including the work of the group responsible for Siri
Some people are using AI chatbots as a supplement to, or in lieu of, traditional mental health services, despite the privacy implications and experts' warnings
Some users see it as a way to supplement traditional mental health services, despite troubling privacy implications. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @rachelmetz Leigh Drogen / @l...
Experts say that when ChatGPT confabulates, the bot is reaching for information not in its training data and filling in the blanks with plausible-sounding words
A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots. — Over the past few months …
Experts say when ChatGPT confabulates, it is reaching for information that is absent from its training data and filling in blanks with plausible-sounding words
A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots. — Over the past few months …
Experts criticize OpenAI for not disclosing GPT-4's training data or methods used; OpenAI co-founder says its past approach to openly sharing research was wrong
The system's capabilities are still being assessed, but as researchers and experts pore over its accompanying materials …