Cormac McCarthy

OpenAI, Google and More Agree to White House List of Eight AI Safety Assurances

Assurances include watermarking, reporting about capabilities and risks, investing in safeguards to prevent bias and more. ...

From Twitter to X: Elon Musk Begins Erasing an Iconic Internet Brand

For more than 10 years, Twitter has been recognizable for its blue and white bird logo, which became a symbol of the social...

Independent Ada Lovelace Institute Asks UK Government to Firm up AI Regulation Proposals

While the United Nations hashes out regulations, the UK’s ‘context-based’ approach is intended to spur innovation but...

Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Change Its Logo

Elon Musk said he was about to make one of the most visible changes to Twitter since he took control of the social...

How Do the White House’s A.I. Commitments Stack Up?

This week, the White House announced that it had secured “voluntary commitments” from seven leading A.I. companies to manage the risks posed by...

A Mystery in the E.R.? Ask Dr. Chatbot for a Diagnosis.

The patient was a 39-year-old woman who had come to the emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Her left...

In U.S., Regulating A.I. Is in Its ‘Early Days’

Regulating artificial intelligence has been a hot topic in Washington in recent months, with lawmakers holding hearings and news conferences and the White...

7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House

Seven leading A.I. companies in the United States have agreed to voluntary safeguards on the technology’s development, the White House announced on Friday,...

An A.I. Supercomputer Whirs to Life, Powered by Giant Computer Chips

Inside a cavernous room this week in a one-story building in Santa Clara, Calif., six-and-a-half-foot-tall machines whirred behind white cabinets. The machines made...

We’re Using A.I. Chatbots Wrong. Here’s How to Direct Them.

Anyone seduced by A.I.-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard — wow, they can write essays and recipes! — eventually runs into what are...

Inside the Private Writings of Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in the FTX Case

Three months before the cryptocurrency market imploded last year, Caroline Ellison, the 27-year-old chief executive of the crypto hedge fund Alameda Research, was...

Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Who Once Eluded Authorities, Is Dead at 59

Kevin Mitnick, a reformed hacker who was once one of the most wanted computer criminals in the United States, died on Sunday, according...

Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles

Google is testing a product that uses artificial intelligence technology to produce news stories, pitching it to news organizations including The New York...

Tesla Wants to Double the Size of Its European Assembly Plant

Tesla wants to double the production capacity of its assembly plant outside Berlin to one million electric vehicles a year, a move that...

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