A coalition of 20 technology companies sign an agreement Friday to help prevent AI deepfakes during critical 2024 elections taking place in more than 40 countries. OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, Adobe and X are among the companies joining the pact to prevent and combat AI-generated content that could influence voters. However, the agreement's vague language … Read more
OpenAI on Thursday announced Sora, a brand new model that generates high-definition videos up to a minute long from text prompts. Sora, which means “sky” in Japanese, will not be available to the general public anytime soon. Instead, OpenAI is making it available to a small group of academics and researchers who will assess the … Read more
A team of South Korean researchers from Yonsei University it's literally filled with beef. Lab-grown rice grains have been infused with cow muscle and fat cells, so they are part plant and part meat. The rice is also an appetizing shade of bright pink, which tends to happen when the flesh comes into play. The … Read more
Odysseus from Intuitive Machines has started heading towards the moon and could go down in history as first privately built lander land on the lunar surface. The lander was carried to space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket using a booster that had already completed 17 flights before this one and could even fly again … Read more
Elon Musk has begun moving his businesses out of Delaware, following a state judge's ruling invalidate his $56 billion Tesla pay package. In a post on X, Musk announced that SpaceX had moved its headquarters from Delaware to Texas, along with a copy of the conversion certificate he received from the Texas Secretary of State. … Read more
Since 1979, Arctic ice has shrunk by 1.35 million square milesa new JPL study Greenland's ice loss is much worse than previously thought and Antarctica's ice is now at its lowest level since records began. The more they melt, the faster the remaining ice diminishes until we face a series of disasters. The most immediate … Read more
While carbon dioxide receives the lion's share of attention when it comes to , other factors come into play. Methane is responsible for about 30 percent of the increase in global temperatures since the industrial revolution, according to the International Energy Agency. About 40 percent of of human activity come from the energy sector. Identifying … Read more
Last year, two Waymo robotaxis in Phoenix “made contact” with the same van it was being towed, which prompted the Alphabet subsidiary to issue a recall on the software of its vehicles. In this case, a “reminder” meant deploying a software update after investigating the issue and determining its root cause. In a blog post, … Read more
Sarah Silverman's lawsuit against OpenAI will move forward with the dismissal of certain claims from her legal team. The comedian continued OpenAI and Meta in July 2023, claiming they trained their AI models on his books and other works without consent. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the unfair competition aspect of the trial will continue. Judge … Read more
Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines is preparing for a real shot at the moon later this month, when it will attempt to land a spacecraft named Odysseus on the lunar surface — ideally without it breaking apart in the process. The mission follows Astrobotic's failed attempt in January; that company's lander, Peregrine, never arrived on … Read more