This article was produced with support from WIRED. A Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster” according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media . “Metaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%,” the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP of Metaverse,…
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss cheating in job interviews, “scary good” surveillance tech, and prudes in payment processing. EMANUEL: First I want to say that the response to our piece about “economic…
The U.S. healthcare system, UnitedHealth Group, has confirmed that a February 2024 ransomware attack on its subsidiary, Change Healthcare, compromised the personal and healthcare data of approximately 190 million individuals.
Monday, the genetic pharmaceutical company Regeneron announced that it is buying genetic sequencing company 23andMe out of bankruptcy for $256 million. The purchase gives us a rough estimate for the current monetary value of a single person’s genetic data: $17. Regeneron is a drug company that “intends to acquire 23andMe’s Personal Genome Service (PGS), Total…
arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science articles and papers that haven’t been vetted by an academic journal or a conference. Why? A tide of AI slop has flooded the computer science category with low-effort papers that are…
“Hi, I’m severely depressed,” I said to my AI therapist. “My heart goes out to you,” she responded in my Instagram direct messages, alongside conversations I’m having with people I know in real life, like old friends and my mom. “Depression can feel overwhelming—would you like to talk about what’s been going on and how…
Telegram, the popular social network and messaging application which has also become a hotbed for all sorts of serious criminal activity, provided U.S. authorities with data on more than 2,200 users last year, according to newly released data from Telegram. The news shows a massive spike in the number of data requests fulfilled by Telegram…
OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Gov, a new version of their premiere AI models that the company hopes will be used securely by U.S. government agencies.
/PRNewswire/ — BlueVoyant, the cybersecurity company that offers seamless AI-driven internal, external, and supply chain cyber defense, all within one…
Tea App Green Flags, a service that claims it can “protect your digital reputation,” will remove negative posts about men from private online groups where women share “red flags” about men they’ve dated in order to help other women. The service is another escalation in the age of online dating, women attempting to protect each…
