Perplexity Is Reportedly Letting Its AI Break a Basic Rule of the Internet
Perplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to…
Microsoft Pitched the US Military on Using Azure OpenAI’s DALL-E for Battle
Microsoft Azure’s version of OpenAI’s image generator, DALL-E, was pitched as a battlefield tool for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), originally reported by The Intercept Wednesday. The report says…
9 Retrofuturistic Predictions That Came True
British actress Margaret Tyzack on the set of 2001: A Space OdysseyPhoto: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis (Getty Images) In 2024, it feels as if our society’s technology is propelling forward in an…
Weekend Tech Roundup January 27, 2024
Photo: Tada Images / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security…
The Fallout from the Taylor Swift AI Porn Could Be Huge
Photo: Gilbert Flores/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 (Getty Images) Earlier this week, AI-generated porn featuring Taylor Swift started circulating on X (formerly Twitter). Swifties were scandalized. Polite society was incensed.…
Former Google CEO Gets Into the AI-Powered Kamikaze Drone Business With ‘White Stork’
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is quietly building a kamikaze drone startup in the U.S. and Ukraine called “White Stork,” according to a report by Forbes Tuesday. The project is named after…
The Usual Suspects of Big Tech Claim AI Will Kill Us All or End World Hunger
The U.S. federal government is still swimming in circles trying to form some sort of plan to regulate the exploding AI industry. So when the usual suspects of big tech…