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A Teachable Moment For Our Universities And Their Students
When college and university students whose historical and constitutional obliviousness is matched only by their self-assured morality of outrage and...
Truth Social parent Trump Media & Technology posts $327M loss on little revenue
Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of former President Donald Trumps social networking site Truth Social, lost more than $300...
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Between the world leaders gathering in Seoul for the second AI Safety Summit this week and Google and OpenAI’s launches...
Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Asked to Use Her Voice. Twice.
Days before OpenAI demonstrated its new, flirty voice assistant last week, the actress Scarlett Johansson said, Sam Altman, the company’s...
Can Artificial Intelligence Make the PC Cool Again?
The race to put artificial intelligence everywhere is taking a detour through the good old laptop computer.Microsoft on Monday introduced...
AI models can outperform humans in tests to identify mental states
Theory of mind is a hallmark of emotional and social intelligence that allows us to infer people’s intentions and engage...
A device that zaps the spinal cord gave paralyzed people better control of their hands
The stimulation won’t work in the small percentage of people who have no remaining connection between the brain and spine...
This ‘Russian Woman’ Loves China. Too Bad She’s a Deepfake.
The woman declares, in Mandarin inflected with a slight accent, that Chinese men should marry “us Russian women.” In other...
See How Easily A.I. Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew Disinformation
Ahead of the U.S. presidential election this year, government officials and tech industry leaders have warned that chatbots and other...
The Download: GPT-4o’s polluted Chinese training data, and astronomy’s AI challenge
Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o last Monday, some Chinese speakers started to notice that something seemed off about this newest...
Daniel Perry’s Pardon for Killing a BLM Protester Makes a Mockery of Self-Defense
That there are government officials who politicize the law is about as foundational to the discourse as any complaint I...
Pint-sized inflation critics rage against rising price of ice cream in sweetest cost-of-living rant yet
They’re mad as hell.Two treat-seeking misses were knocked seriously off course after a trip to see their local ice cream...
California Lawmakers Might Resurrect Failed ‘Urban Renewal’ Program
There's yet another attempt to revive California's shuttered redevelopment agenciesthose crony-capitalist abominations that abused eminent domain, ran up debt without...
Are Poor Schools Underfunded? It’s More Complex Than You’d Think.
One of the most persistent myths in K-12 education is the idea that high-poverty schools are near-universally, significantly underfunded. However,...
TikTok’s Got Trouble
A social media app from China is said to seduce our teenagers in ways that American platforms can only dream...
Lawmakers push to speed up NYC casino licenses timetable: ‘We’re leaving $2B on the table’
Two state lawmakers say it’s time to roll the dice on awarding casino licenses in the New York City area...
Woman Who Prayed While Dangling From Bridge in Semi Truck Credits Lord For Surviving Horrific Ordeal: God Is Listening
Share Tweet By Billy Hallowell Editor May 17, 2024 Newly released dashcam footage of an accident that left a massive...
OpenAI disbands safety team focused on risk of artificial intelligence causing ‘human extinction’
OpenAI eliminated a team focused on the risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence less than a year after it was...
100-hour weeks and heart palpitations Inside Wall Street’s brutal work culture
The tragic death of former Green Beret and Bank of America employee Leo Lukenas III has become a flashpoint of...