Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in front of Google’s San Francisco headquarters, San Francisco, California, June 7, 2024. (credit: Getty Images) Silicon Valley’s latest disruption? Your sleep schedule. On Saturday, NBC Bay Area reported that San Francisco’s South of Market residents are being awakened throughout the night by Waymo self-driving cars honking at each...
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Deep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelganger
Enlarge / A still video capture of X user João Fiadeiro replacing his face with J.D. Vance in a test of Deep-Live-Cam. Over the past few days, a software package called Deep-Live-Cam has been going viral on social media because it can take the face of a person extracted from a single photo and apply...
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Uber, Facing Sexual-Assault Litigation, Pushes Plan That May Curb Suits
Uber has spent millions trying to get a proposal on the Nevada ballot that would restrict the legal fees that bankroll many lawsuits against companies.
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Brands Love Influencers (Until Politics Get Involved)
Marketing firms are using artificial intelligence to help analyze influencers and predict whether they will opine about the election.
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Susan Wojcicki, YouTube’s Former CEO, Dies at 56
The business executive helped turn Google into an internet juggernaut and became one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley.
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Talk With Elon Musk on X
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s claims about immigration, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Biden and more.
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X Spaces With Trump and Musk Is Off to a Glitchy Start
The audio livestream of a conversation between Elon Musk and the former president ran late as users scrambled to try to access the site.
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Former Twitter Board Member Sues Elon Musk’s X For $20 Million in Pay
After purchasing Twitter, Mr. Musk failed to cash out Omid Kordestani’s stock, according to allegations in a new lawsuit.
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Nashville man arrested for running “laptop farm” to get jobs for North Koreans
Enlarge Federal authorities have arrested a Nashville man on charges he hosted laptops at his residences in a scheme to deceive US companies into hiring foreign remote IT workers who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in income to fund North Korea’s weapons program. The scheme, federal prosecutors said, worked by getting US companies to...
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ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing
Enlarge (credit: Ole_CNX via Getty Images) On Thursday, OpenAI released the “system card” for ChatGPT’s new GPT-4o AI model that details model limitations and safety testing procedures. Among other examples, the document reveals that in rare occurrences during testing, the model’s Advanced Voice Mode unintentionally imitated users’ voices without permission. Currently, OpenAI has safeguards in...