Eighty years ago, at Bletchley Park, a country house 50 miles outside of central London, mathematician Alan Turing and a team of experts cracked the Enigma code, the German secret cryptogram for transmissions in World War II. Next week, the U.K. government will attempt to ride on the coattails of that success—and show it’s a key player in a technology that Turing was inexorably tied up with: artificial intelligence.
Bletchley Park will be home to this week’s AI
Sam Bankman-Fried finished his direct testimony in his federal fraud case on Monday on reasonably strong footing, maintaining that he didn’t know about much of what was going on at FTX and Alameda Research, his crypto exchange and trading firm, until their implosion in November 2022. But in several hours of cross-examination, Bankman-Fried seemed less believable, claiming over and over that he didn’t remember statements and documents, and relying on answers like “I’
The Nightmare Before Christmas is kind of an anti-Disney movie. Sure, it’s produced by Walt Disney Studios, and you can find it on the Disney+ streaming service, and its characters can be found at the film studio’s namesake theme parks. But Disney has always kept the film at arm’s length—it was originally released under its Touchstone Pictures label, a defunct subsidiary that housed adult titles like Pretty Woman, Signs, and Sister Act. “They were afraid it
Emily Roberts, SVP, Head of Enterprise Consumer Product, Capital One, explains how to harness the power of technology and customer-feedback loops to innovate products and experiences.
President Joe Biden on Monday will sign a sweeping executive order to guide the development of artificial intelligence—requiring industry to develop safety and security standards, introducing new consumer protections and giving federal agencies an extensive to-do list to oversee the rapidly progressing technology.
The order reflects the government’s effort to shape how AI evolves in a way that can maximize its possibilities and contain its perils. AI has been
To hear Kian Sadeghi tell it, his genetic testing company just might upend healthcare. The 23-year-old college dropout began working on Nucleus in 2020, from his bedroom in his parents’ Brooklyn home. From a swab of genetic material, he says, his company can glean insights into which drugs a person should be prescribed, which diet will best help them lose weight, how concerned they should be about getting Alzheimer’s, and many other health considerations.
Sadeghi has r
Apple will hold what is likely to be its last major product launch of 2023 later today. The event is dubbed “Scary Fast”—a nod to both the fact that the event takes place one day before Halloween and that it will likely spotlight new Macs with Apple’s next-generation Apple Silicon processors.
What’s odd about this Apple event is the time at which it starts. Most Apple events begin at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. But Apple has announced that its “Sc
Having recently discussed the dangers and risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in this forum, it would be remiss not to follow up with the advantages that machine learning (ML) and AI are currently providing as well.
Cyberattacks are growing in complexity and frequency, making it essential for both cybersecurity companies and home users to adopt advanced solutions. Enter AI, a game-changing technology that is transforming the way we defend against cyberthreats. As cybercriminals em
The Halloween season is a time to celebrate goblins, ghosts, and ghouls. But when it comes to the workplace, we need to remain alert to the potential impact of “energy vampires.” Energy vampires may not be what you picture—they don’t have fangs and they aren’t out to suck your blood—but they do pose their own unique threats to the success and productivity of the workplace.
The negative impact of energy vampires on team productivity can be tr
The message from regulators is clear: Big Tech’s excesses will no longer be tolerated. In recent months, the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have issued an unprecedented number of legal challenges to tech mergers. In addition, the FTC has sued Amazon for “illegally maintaining monopoly power,” the DOJ is pursuing Google for “monopolizing digital advertising tech,” and both have proposed changes to M&A rules that would attach vastly more on