Drivers are more likely to engage in non-driving activities, such as checking their phones or eating a sandwich, when using partial automation systems, with some easily skirting rules set to limit distractions, new research showed on Tuesd
A team of technology experts issued a global call on Monday seeking the toughest questions to pose to artificial intelligence systems, which increasingly have handled popular benchmark tests like child’s play.
Dubbed “Humanity’s Last
Instagram is launching a new account type for teenagers that will include a range of heightened parental control features, as well as stricter default settings that limit the type of messages teens can receive and the type of content they see.
While many of the teen account safeguards, including restrictions on sensitive content and messaging, already exist, teens younger than 16 will now need a parent’s permi
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AI is here to stay. For businesses, the pressing question isn’t just whether to use it, but how.
It’s well known that AI has its limitations—even more so with the nuances and complexities of human culture. But how deep do these limitations go? Can businesses confidently rely on AI to navigate their global strategies—such as understanding what people in different countries value, local contexts, and cultural nuances? Should AI play a role in shaping go-to-market strategies for inter
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It’s back to pattern for Adobe, which had been selling off for many quarters on its earnings reports, then had a big jump up at the last report, in June, and is now down ni
OpenAI continues attracting unprecedented levels of funding, but the company’s one-model-to-rule-them-all approach to generative AI comes with its own set of risks.
OpenAI is already the best-funded AI startup by far, having raised an estimated $13.5 billion. Reports say the company is now seeking $6.5 billion in additional venture capital at a valuation of $150 billion (it was valued at around $86 billion back in F
Microsoft Excel is the de facto standard for a lot of corporate number crunching, but even some frequent users don’t know everything that’s possible to do in the spreadsheet program.
And many data scientists and machine learning experts still prefer to do some of their work with other tools, including the programming language Python and its popular data science libra
A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers.
SpaceX‘s capsule splashed d
Intel lost out on a contract to design and fabricate Sony’s PlayStation 6 chip in 2022, which dealt a significant blow to its effort to build its fledgling contract manufacturing business, according to three sources with knowledge of the events.