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Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab
Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab
Google's generative AI flubs could erode consumer trust in the company that's synonymous with finding accurate information online.
Tesla appears to have followed up its recent layoffs with a company-wide hiring freeze. Only three positions remain open out of more than 3,000.
Hidden bargains include $15 off a top-rated air fryer, and there's plenty more where that came from.
According to Vox, employees could “lose all vested equity they earned during their time at the company” if they didn’t sign a nondisclosure and non-disparagement agreement, thanks to a provision in the off-boarding papers.
They're back in stock — many on sale — just in time for Memorial Day.
The nonprofit organization has announced that it's currently in its "third day of warding off an intermittent DDoS cyber-attack."
Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm using fake Facebook accounts to run an influence campaign on its platform, the company said in its latest report on coordinated inauthentic behavior.
Google's new AI search feature was bound to have its issues. Now, after weeks of jokes and memes on social media, the tech giant is responding.
With all the controversy surrounding visual artists being ripped off by AI, it seems like these are difficult and confusing days for creators. Now, a London-based startup hopes to use AI to help artists take back control. Exactly.ai says it uses generative AI to help artists retain legal ownership of their art and gives them the ability to reproduce their designs much faster and at scale.
As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. According to Google, the new "Web" filter will appear either at the top of the results page or as part of the "More" option, depending on your query. The launch is an admission that sometimes people will want to just surface text-based links to web pages -- the classic blue links that today are often of secondary importance as Google either answers the question in its informational Knowledge Panels or, now, through AI experiments.
In response to a user on X who asked 'are you still on the bsky board,' this weekend, Jack Dorsey said only, 'no.' The company has yet to confirm his departure, and Dorsey hasn't publicly provided any further information.
Liz Reid, the Head of Google Search, has admitted that the company's search engine has returned some "odd, inaccurate or unhelpful AI Overviews" after they rolled out to everyone in the US.
Spotify's addition of its AI DJ feature, which introduces personalized song selections to users, was the company's first step into an AI future. Now, Spotify is developing an alternative version of that DJ that will speak Spanish. References to the new AI DJ were spotted in the app's code by tech veteran and reverse engineer Chris Messina.
OpenAI has created a new Safety and Security Committee less than two weeks after the company dissolved the team tasked with protecting humanity from AI’s existential threats. This latest iteration will include two board members and CEO Sam Altman.
X, formerly Twitter, turned TweetDeck into X Pro and pushed it behind a paywall. Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the social network is testing pinned columns on the web. This move could also mean that the Threads API could provide third-party developers with more flexibility in presenting content from the social network in a different way.
Taxes are the "retirement time bomb," according to one tax expert. Here's what you can do now.
Chicago White Sox outfielder Tommy Pham told reporters he's always prepared to fight after an on-field confrontation with Milwaukee Brewers catcher William Contreras.
An argument between Boston Red Sox reliever Chris Martin and Milwaukee Brewers first base coach Quintin Berry caused a bench-clearing confrontation at Fenway Park on Sunday.
The Giants acquired Waller in a March 2023 trade.
Sanctions are hurting Russia's economy more than President Vladimir Putin wants anybody to think. Keeping the pressure on might ultimately help Ukraine win.