Cormac McCarthy

A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots

In a field on the outskirts of Kyiv, the founders of Vyriy, a Ukrainian drone company, were recently at work on a weapon...

Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Tech Platforms’ Free Speech Rights

The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a definitive resolution of challenges to laws in Florida and Texas that curb the power of social...

Meta’s Ad-Free Subscription Violates Competition Law, E.U. Says

When Meta introduced a subscription option last year that would allow users in the European Union to pay for an advertising-free experience of...

Scientists in Japan Give Robots a Fleshy Face and a Smile

Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile.They have created a face mask from...

Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.

In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a criminal. The match...

Tech Leaders: Identify the Best IT “Style” That Leads to High-Performance IT

In today’s ever-changing business environment, tech executives need to be nimble like Fred...

Record Labels Sue A.I. Music Generators, Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade and HatGPT

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeRecord labels — including Sony, Universal and Warner — are suing two...

The Voices of A.I. Are Telling Us a Lot

What does artificial intelligence sound like? Hollywood has been imagining it for decades. Now A.I. developers are cribbing from the movies, crafting voices...

Uber and Lyft Agree to Give Massachusetts Drivers Minimum Pay

Uber and Lyft settled a yearslong legal dispute with the attorney general in Massachusetts on Thursday, agreeing to pay their drivers in the...

Top 5 Prompt Engineering Certifications Worth Taking

Course spotlight: Coursera’s Google AI EssentialsOur assessment: Best for beginnersCoursera’s Google AI Essentials...

Cellphone Outage in Europe Leaves Many U.S. Travelers Disconnected

Many travelers from the United States lost a crucial tool to check maps, make reservations, use ride-hailing apps and more because of a...

Google Adds New Gemini Models to Vertex AI

Google Cloud made a flurry of AI announcements today, with new models available...

AI Search: 5 New Ways to Search the Web

Emerging AI-based search systems often leverage large language models to generate explanations, consolidate...

When the Terms of Service Change to Make Way for A.I. Training

Except as expressly permitted in the Terms, you must not (and must not allow third parties to)… use the Services or Software, or...

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