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Podcast industry under siege as AI bots flood airways with thousands of programs
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1046+ words) The use of AI is pervading the podcast industry, producing content more quickly and cheaply than traditional recording, but critics point to the risk of oversaturation in an already-crowded market and the loss of human connection between listeners and hosts....
Ask the Expert: Artificial intelligence is here
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (720+ words) Artificial intelligence is no longer theoretical. It is already embedded in how New Hampshire businesses operate, how educators teach, how hospitals manage information, and how local governments serve residents. From drafting reports and analyzing data to streamlining customer service and…...
Memory chip squeeze widens gap between market winners and losers
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (530+ words) The relentless surge in memory chip prices over the past few months has driven a vast divide between winners and losers in the stock market, and investors don't see any end in sight. Companies from game console maker Nintendo Co....
AI assisted site provides details for White Mountain hikers
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (590+ words) Nick Dube sits next to his computer where he built hikernerd.com. Nick Dube at the top of Mount Moosilauke in Benton. Nick Dube was growing weary of the frequent reports of hikers, backwoods skiers and other recreationists getting lost,…...
Grok posts sexual images of minors after âlapses in safeguardsâ
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (314+ words) A screenshot of the Grok app is shown here. Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said "lapses in safeguards" led to the generation of sexualized images of minors that it posted to social media site X. Grok created images of minors…...
Grok posts sexual images of minors after ‘lapses in safeguards’
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (305+ words) Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said "lapses in safeguards" led to the generation of sexualized images of minors that it posted to social media site X. Grok created images of minors in minimal clothing in response to user prompts over…...
Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1335+ words) People stand next to a humanoid robot from Unitree Robotics during the Global Developer Conference in Shanghai on Feb. 21. A sub-industry of companies is providing data to train robots on how to move in the real world. Now that artificial…...
Russia’s much-hyped humanoid robot face-plants onstage during debut
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (423+ words) A humanoid robot's highly anticipated debut quickly went awry when it stumbled onstage at a technology showcase in Moscow on Tuesday. Backed by the theme song of "Rocky," the robot, accompanied by two people, waddled onto the stage before a…...
Cloudflare outage cuts access to X, ChatGPT, web platforms
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (272+ words) Major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT, were inaccessible for thousands of users globally on Tuesday as web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare was hit by an outage, disrupting internet services. Cloudflare, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said it…...
Ask the Expert: An outside-of-the-box approach to cybersecurity’s biggest challenge
6+ mon, 3+ day ago (437+ words) Cybersecurity has a problem: The attack surface is expanding faster than companies can secure it. Innovations with AI and in the cloud create brilliant opportunities for organizations to be more dynamic and efficient, but they also increase the size of…...