Raising awareness around the risks of AI-powered deepfake content has become a prime concern for those worried about election integrity and mis- and disinformation spreading on social media. But efforts to warn people about deepfakes can inadvertently make them more suspicious of authentic content too.
That’s the finding of a new study by John Twomey, a researcher in applied psychology at University College Cork in Ireland, and colleagues. The researchers analyzed discussions
ChatGPT became the poster child for generative AI earlier this year. From writing up business plans to explaining complex topics in layman’s terms, ChatGPT has been drafted in to help with just about anything and everything. And companies small and large have been scrambling to explore and reap the benefits of generative AI ever since.
But as this new chapter of AI innovation progresses at a dizzying pace, CEOs and leaders are at risk of overlooking a form of the technology t
The FAA finally has a permanent leader after an 18-month vacancy.
The Senate voted 98-0 to approve the nomination of former FAA deputy Mike Whitaker to serve a five-year term as head of the agency, which has a hand in overseeing the commercial space industry.
Space responsibilities
The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation is responsible for multiple facets of the commercial space mission including:
- Issuing launc
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has been on a tear for the past year and continued its strong performance in the third quarter of 2023, as the company’s earnings report beat Wall Street expectations on the back of its booming advertising operation.
Meta posted a net income of $11.58 billion for the quarter, a 164% increase year over year. The company reported quarterly revenue of $34.15 billion, a 23% increase over last year, which exceeded analy
From the time she sat down with Glossier founder Emily Weiss for a job interview, Roya Shariat told anyone who would listen that her dream was to write a cookbook. Five years later, while heading up social impact and partnerships for the makeup brand, Shariat made her dream come true. This week, her book, Maman & Me: Recipes from our Iranian American Family, which she coauthored with her mother Gita Sadeh, hits shelves nationwide. Shariat came on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Com
Sam Bankman-Fried plans to testify in his defense at his federal fraud trial, his lawyer Mark Cohen said in a teleconference Wednesday. “Things have been changing a lot on our side,” Cohen told Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in a teleconference about scheduling Wednesday morning, “and our client is also going to be testifying.”
The move puts an exciting coda at the tail-end of the trial’s witnesses, after one fascinating piece of testimony after another. Wh
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Are we being led into yet another AI chatbot bubble?
To AI researcher Michelle Zhou, the chatbot fever that’s gripped Silicon Valley for the past year has felt all too familiar. Zhou, who helped invent W
Across the nation, it’s time for the Scholastic Book Fair. The beloved and nostalgia-triggering event, where kids go and pick out an armful of books to take home, is held at 120,000 schools.
But this year, amid the increasingly common practice of book banning in schools and the inevitably contentious debates that stem from politically driven censorship efforts, controversy is looming heavily around the event. After deciding earlier that it would allow schools to opt in or out
As an Ohio uranium enrichment plant opened this month, yet another study questioned whether nuclear power from small modular reactors can compete with other types of electricity generation.
Centrus Energy’s new plant in Piketon produces high-assay, low-enriched uranium, or HALEU. The fuel will contain between 5% and 20% fissile uranium, or U-235, which is the range needed for various types of small modular reactors, or SMRs. The current fleet of large nuclear reactors uses fu
Last week, identity and access management company Okta disclosed a hack of its support system, an incident that has now knocked more than $2 billion from the company’s market cap and caused its stock to drop more than 11%. Here are a few things to know about the cybersecurity breach:
What is Okta?
Okta is a cloud-based service that allows IT at a company to manage applications of devices that an employee might have access to.