Starting this weekend, Twitter says it will begin phasing out its legacy verification program, meaning the only blue checkmarks you’ll see on Twitter will be for users who have opted to pay for them.
Twitter announced, via tweet, its plan to wind down the program and begin “removing legacy verified checkmarks” on April 1, with the only option to keep them coming in the form of a Twitter Blue subscription.
Now T2, a new social network led by former
The gloves are coming off in the fight over the future of AI.
On Tuesday, the Future of Life Institute, a futurist nonprofit backed by the Musk Foundation, published an open letter calling for a six-month pause on training AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s leading GPT-4 service.
“Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,” declares the letter, which has
Electric vehicles, including those designed for heavy-duty industrial work, are finally starting to gain traction in the U.S. Each year, the number of EVs sold rises. Nevertheless, adaptation to EVs in smaller communities across the country has lagged behind their urban counterparts. But that could change due to recent legislation.
At the end of 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law. The act’s multiple projects included offering $7.5 billion in
Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit is letting go of almost its entire work force with the satellite launch company finding it difficult to secure funding three months after a failed mission.
The company, headquartered in Long Beach, California, will cut 675 jobs, about 85% of its workforce, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Earlier this month Virgin Orbit said that it was pausing all operations amid reports of possi
Behind a faded facade of brick and tinted glass, in an office park tucked away from a busy road in Bellevue, a satellite city of Seattle, a group of travelers gathers. On this dreary morning in March, they’re preparing to set out on a quest.
Among their group is a half-orc fighter, a human wizard, a halfling rogue—and me, a brawny dwarven cleric named Dorbin.
The de facto guide of this little odyssey, the “dungeon master” in Dungeons & Dragons-s
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in early February killed tens of thousands of people and left a trail of destruction in its wake.
A massive cleanup operation is still underway in both countries. Meanwhile, one Turkish-based tech business has offered its support to help survivors through any means necessary.
Jotform, which automates the process of making web forms, first sprang into action when the aftershocks subsided. “We have three offices i
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, 2023, came as a shock to most Americans. Even people like myself, a scholar of the U.S. banking system who has worked at the Federal Reserve, didn’t expect SVB’s collapse.
Usually banks, like all companies, fail after a prolonged period of lackluster performance. But SVB, the nation’s 16th-largest bank, had been stable and highly profitable just a few months before, having earned about
As soon as news broke on Thursday that former president Donald Trump had been indicted by a New York grand jury, right-wing activists took to social media platforms like Twitter and Truth Social to issue veiled threats about the retribution to come.
“Bad move,” wrote a QAnon-branded account, @Q, on Truth Social. “Houston – activate Anons,” one user replied. Another added: “The Citizens of the United States will not be deterred by our Militar
Though the economy is still displaying some signs of strength with robust jobs report numbers and elevated levels of consumer spending, there are some notable, worrisome, and lingering trends in the entrepreneurial and startup space. Specifically, the number of companies that are going public, globally, continues to fall—a sign that, for investors and founders, we’ve definitely made an exit from the frothy pre-pandemic era.
The latest data confirms it: Global IPO volum
An ethics group devoted to artificial intelligence has declared GPT-4 to be “a risk to public safety,” and is urging the U.S. government to investigate its maker OpenAI for endangering consumers.
The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) filed its complaint on Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), on the heels of an open letter earlier this week calling more generally for a moratorium on all generative AI. Some 1,200 researchers, tech executive