Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
…I don’t think it’s a risk at all with the kind of products that Efekta produces, though. Even though the AI is literally assuming the role of the teacher? Well…
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The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep
…Kaghazi, for example, has a link on his profile for a “dating assistant” AI app, while John offers a promo code for the nicotine product Nic Nac. One woman, who spoke with…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” identifies people captured by the glasses’ camera and, when activated, alerts the…
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
…The eye-popping figure is a sign of how hungry Anthropic is for computing resources needed to power products like its increasingly popular AI coding tools. The company’s revenue for the…
Taylor Lorenz’s Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day
For our very first User Behavior, Lorenz defends her extreme digital diet, revealing how she’s first to the AI slop, what it takes to run a meme page, and why she…
Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off
…Haas had joined Arm in 2013 from Nvidia, where he’d led the computing product business unit, and eventually took over Arm’s cash cow, the IP products group. Similar to the…
Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling
…Spam calls have been a scourge for decades, and the threat has only ramped up as attackers have started incorporating AI voice-cloning tools into their attacks—making it possible to convincingly…
You Can Soon Buy a $4,370 Humanoid Robot on AliExpress
…but that price will only be attainable when Tesla reaches production of 1 million units a year. Meanwhile, robots from Figure AI and Apptronik are hovering around $50,000 per unit. The…
Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn Wants to Delete the Blockchain
…You said the company would be shifting to be, quote, “AI first.” AI would not just be about productivity but about getting closer to your mission. That email is still on your…
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
…And it will have to do so at a time when New York City’s top school official has described AI as an “invasive technology” and parents and teachers have called to…