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Meta admits it ‘missed the mark’ on new AI image generator ‘Muse Image’
9+ hour, 13+ min ago (356+ words) A backlash over privacy and image usage spurred by a new Meta artificial intelligence tool released on social media has prompted the company to restrict the new feature less than a week after its rollout. Called “Muse Image,” the AI…...
Sheldon H. Jacobson: Future of AI job market is hiding in plain sight
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (484+ words) However, as AI systems become more proficient in performing a growing body of new tasks, companies must weigh the cost of using AI versus the cost of employing people to perform such tasks. Over time, implementing AI system costs will…...
New Meta Glasses collaboration with Kylie Jenner elicits controversy on social media
1+ week, 6+ day ago (511+ words) Meta recently launched a new generation of AI-powered smart glasses, and influencers have quickly begun wearing and promoting them across social media. The new Meta Glasses were launched June 23 in partnership with EssilorLuxottica and influencer Kylie Jenner from the Kardashian…...
Students exposed to challenges, opportunities in at cyber security camp
2+ week, 3+ day ago (518+ words) A heated competition Friday was waged in computer mouse clicks and brain power. Budding cyber security professionals frantically checked their work from computer screens at University of Pittsburgh’s Greensburg campus, hoping to eke out the elusive final few points to…...
Top developers are pivoting from chatbots to physical AI
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1040+ words) PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models — the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude — when he started to feel like he was hitting a dead end. “We basically have passed…...
Anthropic’s Mythos model found vulnerabilities in classified U.S. government systems, official says
2+ week, 6+ day ago (443+ words) The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter, said Anthropic had teamed up with U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct tests using the company’s Mythos model. It had identified certain vulnerabilities within hours, but that does not…...
AI chatbots hit the dating scene, becoming the lovelorn’s modern-day Cyrano
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1160+ words) Marie Lansley recently started a new job in a new city while searching for a new partner. In her dating pursuits, the freshly minted San Franciscan said she’s been “trying everything”— including some help from artificial intelligence. AI chatbots have…...
Watch Duty, the fire tracking app used by millions, expands to help monitor dangerous floods
3+ week, 15+ hour ago (1055+ words) When a fire broke out a few miles from his Altadena, California, home the evening of Jan. 7, 2025, Matt Blea and his family needed to make a crucial decision: Should they stay home, or evacuate? A friend who did mountain rescue…...
Federal regulators back Trump’s plan to speed power to energy-hungry AI data centers
3+ week, 4+ day ago (873+ words) WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Thursday agreed to let large energy users connect more quickly to the nation’s inefficient and electric transmission system to accommodate surging demand from power-hungry artificial intelligence data centers. Energy Secretary Chris Wright had urged the Federal…...
Karishma Vaswani: AI can analyze a crisis. It can’t broker peace
4+ week, 1+ day ago (641+ words) From John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev navigating the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai’s meetings that laid the groundwork for China’s opening up in 1971 — modern history is full of examples of human judgment shaping great diplomatic…...