Archive: April 2016

Cameras are replacing line judges at Wimbledon. Line judges were as much a part of the Wimbledon tennis championships as strawberries and cream. But their demise in favor of technology is being felt by both players and fans alike. John McEnroe famously ranted and raved at the smartly dressed on-court officials but they have called "out" for the final time and been replaced by an electronic line-calling (ELC) system. Some players say they find the new calls

Everything about Elon Musk view more Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more A federal judge in the United States denied xAI's request to suspend Minnesota's law that prohibits AI-generated false images of nudity. With the court's rejection of the company's appeal, the rule remains in effect.Elon Musk's company took the case to court arguing that the legislation infringes on freedom of expression. The state defends the measure as necessary to pr

Palo Alto Networks and NVIDIA want tighter control over AI agents Palo Alto Networks is expanding its work with NVIDIA to help companies control what AI agents can access and do. The collaboration covers agent activity, network traffic and identity management through NVIDIA’s Open Agent Safety Platform reference design. Palo Alto Networks Securing Agents within NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform (Source: Palo Alto Networks) AI agents can write code, retriev

Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images The chip manufacturer Nvidia might be one of the most valuable companies in history for now, but that could change in a heartbeat. In a recent appearance on the podcast “BG2,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agonized that China is now “nanoseconds behind” US chipmakers, the companies building the hardware undergirding the multi-billion dollar AI boom. Just weeks ago, China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of Chi

Spencer Platt/Getty Images The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a “sudden correction” in global financial markets driven by the spending frenzy on artificial intelligence. As Reuters points out, it’s the institution’s clearest warning yet that we could be on the precipice of an AI disaster. “The risk of a sharp market correction has increased,” said the Bank of England’s financial policy committee during a Wednesday

Andrew Cuomo Zohran Mamdani won the race to be New York City’s mayor by a landslide this week, leaving his Democrat-turned-independent rival Andrew Cuomo in the dust. Mamdani ran a strikingly effective campaign that showed him as a genial and relatable young man with a penchant for connecting authentically with voters, often by talking to them right on the street. He kept a laser focus on popular issues of affordability, and projected an infectious sense o

Patrick T. FALLON / AFP As investors are growing increasingly concerned over an AI bubble, triggering a major tech selloff earlier this week, OpenAI is still in full-steam-ahead mode. During the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference on Wednesday, the ChatGPT maker’s chief financial officer Sarah Friar revealed that the company has no plans of going public, contradicting rumors. “IPO is not on the cards right now,” she said at the event. “We are contin

Who collects the keys when an AI agent retires? Think about the last time a good engineer left your company. Someone collected the laptop and the badge. IT revoked their logins before the end of the day. Their manager reassigned the open tickets, and HR filed their records somewhere they’ll stay for years, in case anyone ever challenges a decision they made. Now think about the last time an AI agent left. Someone probably deleted it from the dashboard. I’v

Quibblers and cynics might call AI a solution in search of a problem. We couldn’t possibly comment on such a stance—but we will note that the list of problems that stand waiting for AI-powered salvation does seem to be diminishing by the day. Today’s banished potential use case: remote exam supervision. The exam in question was the annual entrance exam for the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico’s largest and most prestigious university

Getty Images / Noel Hendrickson Microsoft is hellbent on stuffing Windows 11 with AI — and many feel that this is coming at the expense of the operating system’s usability. That aggrieved sentiment now seems more vindicated than ever, after Microsoft rolled out a new update that prevented users from shutting down their PCs — a core functionality that there should be zero excuses for not working. The patch, released on January 13, was the first security upd

One of the ways Pew Research has been gauging American attitudes about AI for the past few years is by asking this question that measures people’s excitement against their concern. They started asking this in 2021, in the pre-ChatGPT days, and in the latest survey six years later, Americans in general are less excited than ever—and also tied for the most concerned ever. But one group is trending the opposite direction from the rest: people in the 50-64 age

Nvidia is far in the lead when it comes to the semiconductors needed for AI technology. The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has whetted the appetites of Nvidia's competitors, who are seeking to close the gap on the chip giant, which has so far been the central playmaker in the AI revolution. Virtually unknown to the general public just three years ago, Nvidia now boasts the world's highest revenues, driven by sales of its graphics cards—or GPUs (gr

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images OpenClaw, an open source AI agent that supposedly “actually does things,” has driven everyone in the industry completely mad — something that seems to happen with every subsequent release of the trendy AI thing of the moment. Programmers are handing the keys to their computers to the OpenClaw AI and basically letting it run rampant in the name of added productivity, ignoring the obvious s

DANIEL DORKO/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Last year, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary anointed their word of the year as “slop,” a term denoting the low-quality flood of AI output that’s been jamming up feeds for years now. The latest victim? Software giant Microsoft. After infuriating vast swathes of its user base with an unrelenting barrage of AI-enhanced features — even declaring its latest Windows 11 operating system as an “agentic OS” —

Last week, M. John Harrison’s The End of Everything became the first sci-fi novel to win the Booker Prize. It follows Phillip Tennent, a beachcomber who fishes a dangerous artifact out of the ocean. With so much attention on the novel thanks to the awards publicity, naturally, inquiring minds want to know if there’s a film adaptation in the works. When Deadline asked the 81-year-old British author about a potential adaptation, Harrison responded, “We do ha