77-Year-Old ‘Godfather of AI’ Says His Girlfriend Dumped Him Via ChatGPT: ‘It Didn’t Make Me Feel Too Bad’
Geoffrey Hinton says his ex used the AI chatbot to articulate the reasons why she was breaking up with him.
The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap
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. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. According to Eli and his wife,…
The Future of Finance Won’t Be Built on Innovation Alone — Here’s What It Will Depend On Instead
The future of finance and technology depends on collaboration, not isolation.
AI Is Flooding Feeds With Fakes. Here’s What Real Brands Need to Stand Out
As AI blurs the line between what’s real and what’s manufactured online, the brands that will thrive are those that anchor themselves in authenticity and trust.
Signal introduces free and paid backup plans for your chats
Signal introduces backups with both free and paid plans.
Salesloft says Drift customer data thefts linked to March GitHub account hack
The breach, now known to have begun in March, raises questions about why it took six months for Salesloft to detect the breach.
Meta suppressed children’s safety research, four whistleblowers claim
Four whistleblowers share documents with Congress alleging that the company may have suppressed research on children’s safety.
5 Ways to Spot and Capture the Best Talent Before Your Competitors Do
How top leaders scout beyond the obvious, tap into new motivators and move decisively to land game-changing hires before the competition even knows they exist.
A Tiny Country in the Caribbean Is Making Millions Off Its Old Domain Name
The country of Anguilla is capitalizing on some early Internet luck — its .ai domain.
How to Unlock Big Business Breakthroughs in Just 4 Minutes
Here’s a proven system for finding great business ideas fast, and putting them into action.
Anthropic Proposes $1.5 Billion Settlement Over ‘Stealing’ Books, the Largest Copyright Payout Ever
The class action case was filed last year by a group of authors alleging that Anthropic had illegally downloaded their work to train AI models.