Dozens gathered outside the OpenAI office in San Francisco to protest the artificial intelligence lab’s work with the Pentagon and development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems like ChatGPT that could one day surpass human intelligence.
Day: February 13, 2024
FCC commissioner wants to investigate Apple over Beeper Mini shutdown
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Republican Commissioner Brendan Carr is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Apple’s response to Beeper Mini — the app that briefly brought iMessage to Android. During the State of the Net Conference on Monday, Carr […]
A Waymo robotaxi was vandalized and burned in San Francisco
A Waymo robotaxi was vandalized and then set on fire by a crowd of people Saturday evening in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood. The incident is the latest encounter between driverless vehicles and the public in San Francisco, a city where autonomous vehicle companies have spent […]
Midnight plans to aggregate games inside Web3 Evergreen MMORPG
Midnight announced that it plans to aggregate a bunch of games inside its Evergreen massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
FCC commissioner wants to investigate Apple over Beeper Mini shutdown
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Republican Commissioner Brendan Carr is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Apple’s response to Beeper Mini — the app that briefly brought iMessage to Android. During the State of the Net Conference on Monday, Carr […]
Why did players pick Helldivers 2 over Suicide Squad?
Helldivers 2 and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League recently launched, but fans had dramatically different takes on these shooters.
That anti-Tesla Super Bowl ad just got the wrong kind of attention from the NTSB
The National Transportation Safety Board, a U.S. government agency that investigates crashes, has ordered the Dawn Project organization to stop using its seal after it appeared in a Super Bowl ad that called for consumers to boycott Tesla. The NTSB said in a letter that […]
Over half of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, far more than wider App Store
Apple’s Vision Pro offers consumers a new way to interact with apps via spatial computing, but it also offers app developers a way to generate revenue without subscriptions. According to a recently released report from app intelligence firm Appfigures, over half of Vision Pro-only apps […]
Feds probing Lucid’s software fix for defroster recall
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation into a Lucid Motors windshield defroster recall from January, saying it’s “concerned” the company’s over-the-air update solution doesn’t go far enough to fix the problem. Lucid, meanwhile, told TechCrunch that the agency “understates the remedy […]
Sam Altman and the $7T geopolitics of AI chips | The AI Beat
Silicon Valley was arguably more captivated this weekend by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s fundraising efforts for AI chips than the Super Bowl.