A well-known, pro-AI super political action committee is behind a new group that plans to blast voters in key battleground states with ads advocating for data centers, several outlets are reporting. That new group, called Build American AI, wants to convince citizens of the virtues of having data centers in their backyards. It says it…
The Pentagon has launched versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools that have been tailored to “warfighter needs.” ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government — custom versions of the popular consumer generative AI tools — are now part of GenAI.mil, a centralized, secure…
Amazon is facing a new lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 22 states, which accuse the company of secretly charging businesses more for advertising on its platform. The lawsuit, filed Monday, claims Amazon spent more than seven years quietly increasing the prices advertisers paid through its online ad auctions. According to the complaint,…
Instagram announced Monday that it’s altering the way it labels AI-generated profiles and can begin limiting the attain of accounts that characteristic AI-generated individuals with out saying so. The platform says it’s renaming its current “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile,” which Instagram says ought to make the disclosure simpler to know. The brand new…
A prolific hacking group has taken credit score for final week’s cyberattack towards U.S. pharmaceutical distribution large McKesson, resulting in the most recent spill of extremely delicate well being information by an American healthcare firm in latest months. McKesson confirmed Friday in a statement on its website that hackers broke into a number of of…
Ryan Breslow, the controversial entrepreneur who returned as CEO of Bolt last year after years of legal battles and clashes with investors, refuses to give up on the checkout processing startup he co-founded in 2014. The company, which hit an $11 billion valuation in early 2022 before plummeting 97% to $300 million, is now raising…
In our world of high-priced streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media participant, developed by the non-profit VideoLAN, has crossed 7 billion downloads throughout all platforms. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the president and lead developer of VLC, despatched this replace in an e mail. This milestone comes virtually 18 months after the app breached the…
Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community. Green, who has long been a close observer of the debate around the use of hacking tools by governments to fight crime and the need for strong encryption to protect…
The assembly note-taker market is a crowded house. Simply in the previous few weeks, dictation app Wispr launched its personal note-taker and scheduling app, and Calendly added the same software to its stack. Devoted assembly note-takers like Granola, Learn AI, and Fireflies have raised thousands and thousands of {dollars} in funding. Probably in response to…
On the job review platform Glassdoor, one faction hates artificial intelligence more than any other. “Pushing AI to the point that you are asking humans not to use their thoughts and brains is such a turn off,” reads one representative review. “Stop forcing AI onto everyone,” reads another. And then there’s this one: “The AI…
