OpenAI's Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work
OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind the sleek industrial aesthetic that defined the iPhone and more than…
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Jack Dorsey's Block Made an AI Agent to Boost Its Own Productivity
At a company-wide hackathon this month, developers at finance firm Block built a dizzying number of prototype tools including a database debugger, a program for identifying duplicated…
The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI
Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was inked in 2019, several of them were stunned to…
Implementing AI in the Beauty Category to Scale With Speed
AI isn’t just a buzzword. It’s an industry-wide transformation. At WWD’s annual Beauty CEO Summit, David Greenberg, chief executive officer, L’Oréal and president, North America Zone,…
The Maesa Magic: Building the Next Generation of Beauty Brands
In a conversation presented by Maesa, James Manso, beauty and fashion market editor at WWD, sat down with Piyush Jain, chief executive officer of Maesa, and Erin George, managing director…
Google’s AI Boss Says Gemini's New Abilities Point the Way to AGI
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says that reaching artificial general intelligence or AGI—a fuzzy term typically used to describe machines with human-like cleverness—will mean…
How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution
Two members of the Extropian community, internet entrepreneurs Brian and Sabine Atkins—who met on an Extropian mailing list in 1998 and were married soon after—were so taken by this…
Bill Gates Explains His Plans to Close the Gates Foundation in 2045
Donald Trump is the face of these cuts, but the cruelty of his administration is not the only story. After leaping upward in the 2000s, global giving for health grew very slowly through…
The Stakes for OpenAI’s Plan B
OpenAI backtracks OpenAI’s decision to scale back its ambitious corporate reorganization has drawn lots of scrutiny, including what the plan means for artificial intelligence safety,…
Google Plans to Roll Out Gemini A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13
Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts, as tech companies vie to attract young users…
A DOGE Recruiter Is Staffing a Project to Deploy AI Agents Across the US Government
According to sources with direct knowledge, Jancso disclosed that AccelerateX had signed a partnership agreement with Palantir in 2024. According to the LinkedIn of someone described as…
The Climate Crisis Threatens Supply Chains. Manufacturers Hope AI Can Help
Abhi Ghadge, associate professor of supply chain management at Cranfield University in the UK, says there has been “a general kind of negligence” in terms of climate resilience, though…
Meta and Blumhouse Create Chatbot That Encourages Phone Use During Movies
“Oh, wow, this is really cool,” Flannery Johnston, 28, said as the chatbot came to life, offering a personalized hello from M3GAN, the diabolical A.I. doll at the center of the movie. Over…
Inside the Battle Over OpenAI’s Corporate Restructuring
Late last year, Bell, Blackwell, and Aguilar decided to dust off the old playbook. They commissioned a legal memo that reiterated the power of the attorney general over the irrevocable…
A Judge Says Meta’s AI Copyright Case Is About ‘the Next Taylor Swift’
Meta’s copyright battle with a group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, will turn on the question of whether the company’s AI tools produce works that can…
Think Twice Before Creating That ChatGPT Action Figure
Any data, prompts, or requests you share helps teach the algorithm—and personalized information helps fine tune it further, says Jake Moore, global cybersecurity adviser at security outfit…
2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker
Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the hydraulic Atlas model that’s…
Thrive Capital Creating Vehicle for Serial M&A
Thrive Capital has bet big on artificial intelligence, including emerging giants of the field like OpenAI and Databricks. Now the venture capital firm is taking a different approach:…
Why Even Try if You Have A.I.?
A couple of years ago, my wife bought my then four-year-old son a supercool set of wooden ramps, which could be combined with our furniture to create courses through which little balls…
Publisher of PCMag and Mashable Sues OpenAI
Ziff Davis, the digital publisher behind tech sites like Mashable, PCMag and Lifehacker, sued OpenAI on Thursday, joining a wave of media companies accusing the artificial intelligence…
‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw
Here’s a nice little distraction from your workday: Head to Google, type in any made-up phrase, add the word “meaning,” and search. Behold! Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that…
AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures
So, there's the training data. Then, there's the fine-tuning and evaluation. The training data might contain all kinds of really problematic stereotypes across countries, but then the bias…
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing
While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eyecatching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid robots are in real-world situations, says Fern. Even being able to run a half…