Professor Chris Miller’s new book “Chip War” explains the complicated global politics inside your iPhone. Afew weeks ago, President Joe Biden was in the Netherlands, where he asked the Dutch government to restrict export from […]

“Disclosing AI content is like telling the IRS you have a cash-only business.” When prominent tech news site CNET was caught last month using AI to quietly publish dozens of articles, it produced widespread alarm. […]

Let’s all chill out. AI is a promising new technology, but the conversation isn’t always genuine, and it’s generating more heat than light. It’s obvious there’s a lot of potential in something like ChatGPT, but […]

This month Alphabet, the parent company of Google, publicly launched Mineral, an agtech business it’s been incubating in stealth within its so-called “moonshot factory” X since 2017. Mineral aims to provide foundational and actionable data […]

Making sure our machines understand the intent behind our instructions is an important problem that requires understanding intelligence itself. any years ago, I learned to program on an old Symbolics Lisp Machine. The operating system […]

Despite being the culmination of a century-long dream, no better word describes the much-discussed output of OpenAI’s ChatGPT than the colloquial “mid.” Just as Hannah Arendt reckoned with “the banality of evil” so we must […]

A chatbot originally designed to act as a companion to lonely people has pivoted to being a companion to horny people without informing the original users of the app. Replika began as an “AI companion […]

No one knew how popular OpenAI’s DALL-E would be in 2022, and no one knows where its rise will leave us. It was clear that OpenAI was on to something. In late 2021, a small […]

While conducting an aerial survey of northern Guatemala, researchers detected a sprawling Maya site. Geologists in northern Guatemala have discovered a massive Maya site that stretches approximately 650 square miles (1,700 square kilometers) and dates […]

Jon Stokes runs through the changes that Stability AI have introduced to the new versions of Stable Diffusion. On November 24, 2022, Stability AI released the 2.0 version of Stable Diffusion. Then just two weeks […]

Israel’s Lumus, the developer of reflective waveguide technology for augmented reality eyewear, has introduced its second-generation tech to enable the development of smaller and lighter AR glasses. The Lumus Z-Lens 2D waveguide architecture builds upon […]

China has cracked a microchip design method previously mastered only by the West in a challenge that could undermine sanctions. Patent filings show that Huawei has made advances on a crucial chip-making method, raising the […]

ChatGPT made conversational AI accessible, now Microsoft is rumored to be integrating the machine learning techniques behind it into Bing search queries. Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a version of Bing that uses ChatGPT […]

Two pieces of news dominated the tech industry in the final months of 2022: Elon Musk and Twitter, and Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX. Both showed how narratives can lead people astray. Narratives are tempting but […]

“Unsupervised” reaches new highs in what’s possible with AI, creating a breathing being that synthesizes 180,000 artworks from MoMA. As a painter would use pigment, Refik Anadol uses data to create his art. After looking […]

Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo. In a paper titled, “Do Users Write More […]

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, gives his take on the #TwitterFiles and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified. I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe… based on everything […]

2022 has been the year that AI tools have become accessible to the public. 2023 is going to get strange. Across social media, people have been sharing stories about using ChatGPT to write code, draft […]

Midjourney CEO David Holz describes the potential for games to one day be “dreams”(opens in new tab) and it certainly feels like we’re moving hastily in that direction. Applying AI to augmented or virtual reality […]

Startups that source performance biomaterials and integrate them into products are a largely untapped pathway to market. Biomanufacturing is the use of biological systems that have been engineered, or that are used outside their natural […]

Artificial general intelligence is a worthwhile goal: Getting it right will lead to enormous breakthroughs in science, research, welfare, and how we live our lives. But the way we get there matters. Ten years ago, […]

An AI-generated character might not sound so remarkable in an era of deepfakes and all manner of digital alchemy. But Loab is different. Generated by accident, she leaves an indelible trace on every image associated […]

Artificial intelligence can now make better art than most humans. Soon, these engines of wow will transform how we design just about everything. Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh […]

Tom Holland’s Spider-Man (and many other versions of the hero) enter the Spider-Verse in an incredible fan animation from Corridor. The visual effects team at Corridor Digital skillfully utilized AI animation tools to put the […]

“Simply put, for an experience to become delightful and retentive, it must first be usable and well crafted.” Meta’s VR social network Horizon Worlds — the company’s flagship “metaverse” app — is suffering from too […]

Digital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve. My parents don’t know that I spoke to them last night. At first, they sounded distant and tinny, as if they were […]

A number of steelmakers are experimenting with low-carbon technologies that use hydrogen or electricity instead of traditional manufacturing. In the city of Woburn, Massachusetts, a suburb just north of Boston, a cadre of engineers and […]

The stock image company is also promising to reimburse creators whose work is used to train AI art models with a new Contributors Fund. Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry? It’s a […]

Mick Kowitz, the CEO and founder of RYSE Aero Technologies, wants to put eVTOL aircraft into the hands farmers and ranchers. “We tend to think of farmers and put them in the bucket of hillbillies, […]

A voice synthesis company based in Dubai published a fictional podcast interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs using realistic voices digitally cloned from both men. It takes place during the “first episode” of a […]