AI technology

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify Criticize EU AI Regulations

Last Friday, August 23rd, the CEOs of Meta and Spotify, Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek, issued a joint statement on Meta’s website expressing their growing concern over and criticizing strict EU AI regulations. Specifically, Zuckerberg and Ek spoke about how,...

Apple’s AI Scraping Hits Roadblock as Major Sites Opt Out

Apple recently introduced a tool allowing publishers to prevent their content from being used in AI training. In less than three months, several major news outlets and social media platforms have chosen to use this option. Among those opting out...

AI’s Silent Self-Destruction and Its Threat to the Internet

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly growing. In the past year, Google searches for AI have reached 92 percent of their highest levels ever. However, new research warns that AI's rapid rise might also lead to serious...

Is AI Leading Us to an Energy Crisis?

After OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, our conception of what artificial intelligence (AI) can do changed completely. Since then, we've been using AI in basically every sector from finance and healthcare to entertainment and even tutoring. It is...

Brain-Reading Pacemakers Relieve Parkinson’s Symptoms

A new type of brain implant in the form of a pacemaker might offer better treatment for Parkinson's disease, according to recent research. Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco, tested this new technology in a clinical trial. The...

Mango AI Fashion Model Goes Viral

Spanish fashion brand Mango has launched a new campaign with an AI model featuring their teen designs. This is the first campaign of its type. Mango's Chief Information Technology Officer, Jordi Alex, said "This initiative reflects our continued commitment to...

AI Identifies Diseases With 98% Accuracy Using Tongue Scans

Tongue examination has been a critical diagnostic tool in both traditional and modern medicine. The color, texture, and moisture of the tongue can provide insights into a person’s overall health. For example, a healthy tongue is typically pink with a...

Amazon Shifts Attention to Generative AI

Amazon is shifting its production efforts to generative AI due to the overwhelmingly poor performance of Amazon's hardware products. The company, which introduced artificial intelligence services with Alexa in 2014, claims that this was always meant to be an "evolving"...

Google Monopoly Status Affirmed by Antitrust Ruling and Research

A federal judge has ruled that Google broke the law by using its prominent position in online search to block competition and slow down new ideas. Researchers from Northeastern University studied Google's actions and confirmed that the company controls most...

Could a Memory Device Make AI Drastically More Efficient?

Researchers have produced a new memory device that could cut down on AI energy consumption by at least a thousand times. This new device is known as computational random-access memory (CRAM). It works by performing calculations directly within memory cells. This...