Mark Zuckerberg’s Team Showed Up to Court Wearing Meta Ray-Bans. The Judge Was Not Amused.
At least two people in Zuckerberg’s entourage wore the AI glasses as he testified in a landmark trial accusing Instagram of being designed to addict children.
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…
Meta is shutting down Messenger’s standalone website
The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac.
New York hits the brakes on robotaxi expansion plan
The governor of New York pulled a robotaxi expansion proposal that was viewed as a win for Waymo.
The Grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Inventor Says the Candy Is Now ‘Not Edible.’ He Blames Hershey.
Brad Reese, 70, wrote an open letter accusing Hershey of replacing the milk chocolate and peanut butter with cheaper ingredients.
Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens
Meta’s CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms.
SoftBank to spend an eye-popping $33B to build huge U.S. gas power plant
If completed, the project would be among the largest and most expensive natural gas power plants.
Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online
AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot, like when White House officials recently shared a manipulated image of a protester in Minnesota and then mocked those asking about it. Other times, it slips quietly into social media feeds and racks up views, like the videos that…
Here’s What It Is Really Like to Report to Elon Musk, According to X’s Head of Product
X’s product lead describes his role as “the hardest” job of his life.
OpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuation
OpenAI is reportedly getting close to closing a $100 billion deal, with backers including Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft. The deal would value the ChatGPT-maker at $850 billion.
Current is a new RSS reader that’s more like a river than an inbox
Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.