Report: Off-Duty Pilot Charged With Murder Was Suffering ‘Nervous Breakdown’ After Taking Psychedelic Mushrooms
The Alaska Airlines flight was headed to San Francisco from Everett, Washington, before it made an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon.
The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI can now create a replica of your personality Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your…
October 2023
TikTok partners with Tickets.com to sell tickets for its first live music event
A few months ago, TikTok launched its subscription-only music streaming service to compete with major players Spotify, Apple and Amazon. Now, the company appears to be throwing its hat in the ticketing ring with its latest announcement. TikTok announced today its first live global music event, “In The Mix,” marking the first time the short-form […]
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Google Play’s policy update cracks down on ‘offensive’ AI apps, disruptive notifications
Google is taking aim at potentially problematic generative AI apps with a new policy, to be enforced starting early next year, that will require developers of Android applications published on its Play Store to offer the ability to report or flag offensive AI-generated content. The new policy will insist that flagging and reporting can be […]
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GM and Honda punt on plan to build millions of affordable EVs together
General Motors and long-time partner Honda have ended plans to build millions of affordable and smaller electric vehicles as the automakers come to terms with high interest rates and battery costs coupled with softening EV demand. The end to the EV partnership comes 18 months after the two companies announced plans to co-develop affordable electric vehicles. […]
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This Refurbished MacBook Air Is on Sale for Just $299.97 for a Limited Time
A great deal on a popular laptop, available now through October 31.
‘Walking Still Causes Her Pain’: Elderly Woman Awarded $3 Million Settlement From Dunkin’ After Drive-Thru Coffee Spill
The incident happened in February 2021 in the Atlanta area.
‘That Job Was Hell’: 7 Founders Share Their Worst Boss Horror Stories, and What They Learned From the Lunatics
These entrepreneurs lived through bad boss nightmares, but they got the upper hand in the end.
AI titans throw a (tiny) bone to AI safety researchers
The Frontier Model Forum, an industry body focused on studying “frontier” AI models along the lines of GPT-4 and ChatGPT, today announced that it’ll pledge $10 million toward a new fund to advance research on tools for “testing and evaluating the most capable AI models.” The fund, says the Frontier Model Forum — whose members […]
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Viso eyes no-code for the future of computer vision and scores funding to scale
Computer vision has become commonplace across innumerable industries, but the methods of creating and controlling these visual AI models aren’t so easy. Viso is building a low/no-code end-to-end platform that lets companies roll their own computer vision stack, and they just pulled in $9M to scale up. There are tons of computer vision models and […]
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Chkk helps keep complex Kubernetes environments up and running
As Kubernetes is being deployed for ever more mission critical workloads, keeping clusters up and running has become increasingly important for DevOps teams. Chkk, an early stage startup, launched out of stealth today with a solution that looks for vulnerabilities that could take down a cluster and warns administrators before it happens. It’s not only […]
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