After amassing 10 million sign-ups for its AI presentation tool in just nine months, Tome is releasing new features aimed at getting those users to stick around.
Tome can turn text prompts into multi-page slideshows, and it credits TikTok chatter as a big part of its quick takeoff. The new version supports lengthier text prompts while giving users more control over each slide’s content and formatting. Future updates will let users import images and third-party data sources in
Senator Mark Warner is one of the most vocal and persuasive members of Congress where regulating the tech industry is concerned. This year, he’s been very engaged in helping the government find its way toward common-sense regulation of burgeoning AI technology, notably in the context of election disinformation. There are already signs that AI has been used to influence foreign elections, and concern is growing that new generative AI tools could be used to inject disinformation into nex
Dolgencorp, a subsidiary of Dollar General, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a shocking lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The suit alleged that Dollar General’s hiring process violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) in a number of ways.
The claims made in the lawsuit are troubling. The EEOC sued on behalf of 498 applicants, and claimed that, after making job offers
This week marks one year since Elon Musk strutted into Twitter’s San Francisco offices carrying an actual kitchen sink, grinning from ear to ear as he reluctantly closed his $44 billion purchase of the social network.
Things have changed significantly at Twitter since then. Twitter has the company laid off the majority of its staff, leaving the company woefully undermanned in areas like content moderation and government relations. In addition, Musk blew up the verification pr
Every semester, I ask my students to look at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Classification and think of which jobs can be automated using AI. This serves to inspire them to come up with their own startup venures. Quite often, customer service representatives and data-entry keyers come up in the list.
Indeed, generative AI has plenty of potential to automate many aspects of customer service. And other areas of AI, such as computer vision combined with natural langua
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Arc is the Web browser I use daily. It’s cleaner than Chrome and more elegantly designed. It’s easy to organize Arc tabs by project and context. When I first wrote about Arc, you had to get on a waiting list to use it. Now, it’s free for anyone to use on Mac and iOS, with a Windows version expected thi
Have you ever bitten into a nut or a piece of chocolate, expecting a smooth, rich taste, only to encounter an unexpected and unpleasant chalky or sour flavor? That taste is rancidity in action, and it affects pretty much every product in your pantry. However, these days artificial intelligence can help scientists tackle this issue more precisely and efficiently.
We’re a group of chemists who study ways to extend the life of food products, including those that go rancid. We re
Raad Mobrem found a mentor the old-fashioned way: A chance encounter with Kinko’s founder Paul Orfalea on the street led to a conversation about entrepreneurship and, ultimately, a long-lasting relationship that extended through Mobrem’s founding the inventory-management app, Lettuce, and eventually selling it to the financial software giant Intuit for $30 million. “We went and sat down and in, like, 15 to 30 minutes, I learned more about entrepreneurship than I had ever
Director Nathaniel Kahn probed the world of art sales in 2018’s The Price of Everything and the search for extraterrestrial life in 2021’s Emmy-winning Hunt for Planet B. His latest film, however, goes where no man has gone before: a million miles from Earth.
Deep Sky, a 40-minute Imax original documentary about NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that opened yesterday, showcases the mind-blowing images captured by the $10-billion telescope, which started b
At the beginning, there was just one demo tape.
Thirty years ago, Santa Cruz-based indie rock band The Ugly Mugs was looking to grow its fan base. “We were trying to publish a tape, get it out there into people’s hands so they could hear it,” recalls former band member Jeff Patterson, who had moved to the California beach town to study computer science. Rob Lord, a fellow student and like-minded music geek, told Patterson about cutting-edge music compression tec