Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’
Google introduced a dramatic redesign of the Fitbit app last year in public beta, centered around a new AI-powered Health Coach chatbot that can provide guidance on anything and everything from…
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Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…He knew AI targeting would succeed or fail based on keeping careful records about model development, and who supervised model development. Under his watch, NGA started allocating each AI model an assessment…
Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze
…Last month, the startup Standard Intelligence released a computer use model trained on videos, rather than screenshots. The startup says it developed a video encoder that can compress videos into an AI…
The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep
…On top of that, Meta’s glasses are equipped with potentially invasive AI services—already, the Meta app that runs on the device can collect your videos for further AI training—that…
AI Podcasters Really Want to Tell You How to Keep a Man Happy
…And for $9.97, you can buy Melissa Devine’s “300+ Quotes For the Women Who Refuse to Settle” to help script your AI podcaster’s identity. “This is essentially the same…
Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers
…Last year, over 1,000 Amazon employees anonymously signed an open letter warning of harms from the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development.” Microsoft employees have…
Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?
…He has spent countless hours talking to developers, training engineers, and evangelizing GitHub and AI. He’s also smack in the middle of Microsoft’s belated effort to seize the agentic moment…
The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
…developing early reinforcement learning algorithms. The world of AI is now more focused on LLMs and a different approach to training that involves feeding vast quantities of human text scraped from books…
New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI
…Once upon a time, she had been drawn to coding for the job security it offered, but AI was threatening to upend that. “The skills that I had learned—rote development skills…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
…This is the big event in the AI industry. Some people even call it the Super Bowl of AI. Developers go, CEOs, researchers, WIRED reporters—and we're all waiting to hear…