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This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won’t Work

Deveillance also claims the Spectre can find nearby microphones by detecting radio frequencies (RF), but critics say finding a microphone via RF emissions is not effective unless the...

Why Is Alexa+ So Bad?

I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well. Source link

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.” Source...

‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran War in the AI Era, Prediction Market Ethics, and Paramount Beats Netflix

Zoë Schiffer: Emil Michael, you should turn off your views on LinkedIn because people can see when they look at your phone.Brian Barrett: Yeah, that's a tip for...

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still in the hot seat this week after his company signed a deal with the US military. OpenAI employees have criticized the move,...

ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns

Move over Sora 2, there’s a hot new AI video model in town.In early February, ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.0, a major upgrade to its flagship video model, which...

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How BYD’s new EV charging tech and range stacks up against Tesla and the rest

If BYD’s “Disruptive Technology” event on March 5 was meant to rattle the EV industry, it probably worked. The Chinese automaker unveiled the...

HUAWEI Watch GT Runner 2 is the “it” Smartwatch for Marathoners

HUAWEI has returned this year with one of its greatest performance-centric smartwatch series; HUAWEI Watch GT Runner 2. Seamlessly running with both Android...

A $1,000 Xbox might actually make sense, if Project Helix gets it right

A $1,000 Xbox would have sounded downright absurd not long ago, but Microsoft’s next-gen system, reportedly called Project Helix, may be heading into...

AI chatbots that are fit only for adults are still appearing in kids toys

A new report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund has raised concerns about the growing use of artificial intelligence...

Anthropic research says AI can mass expose of anonymous internet accounts

New research involving scientists from Anthropic and ETH Zurich suggests that modern artificial intelligence systems could identify the real-world identities behind supposedly anonymous...