The gaming community freaked out last week when Seamus Blackley, the original creator of Xbox, claimed the console was sunset in an interview with Gamesbeat. However, if you read the interview or his comments on Blueskyyou’ll realize he meant that something at the core of Xbox feels off:The console he built is in “distress.” Blackley … Read more
Brian Barrett: The irony is my favorite part because I feel like venture capitalists have largely positioned themselves as immune to the effects of AI because they’re very special and surely a machine can— Zoë Schiffer: It’s art, not science. Brian Barrett: Yes. It’s art, not science. Machines can take every job, but not us. … Read more
Second is advertiser tools. If you’re a small business, you’re not thinking about all the queries people are going to type in. AI is great at figuring out which keywords to use, what’s the optimal creative, and generating all of that. The third piece is the most nascent: ads in new experiences. The general philosophy … Read more
There’s a new button in Google Maps: “Ask Maps.” Google started rolling out this new generative AI feature today, a conversational, in-app tool that combines data from Maps with a user experience similar to the company’s Gemini chatbot. It’s designed to answer questions about locations and schedule routes in the navigation app. This is part … Read more
Superhuman, the tech company behind the writing software Grammarly, is facing a class action lawsuit over an AI tool that presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—none of whom consented to have their names appear within the product. Julia Angwin, an award-winning investigative journalist who founded The Markup, a nonprofit … Read more
Katy Shi, a researcher who works on Codex’s behavior at OpenAI, says that while some folks describe its default personality as “dry bread,” many have come to appreciate its less sycophantic style. “A lot of engineering work is about being able to take critical feedback without interpreting it as mean,” Shi says. Several major enterprises … Read more
Nvidia will spend $26 billion over the next five years to build open source artificial intelligence models, according to a financial filing 2025. Executives confirmed the news, which has not been previously reported, in interviews with WIRED. The sizable investment could see Nvidia evolve from a chipmaker with an impressive software stack into a bona … Read more
Holograms are a mainstay of science fiction, popping up across the great expanses of Star Wars, Star Trek, hello,and The Expanse. If a story is set in the future, or in space, it’s probably got a hologram in it. Unfortunately, this is less the case in real life, despite many tech companies eager to make … Read more
Meta announced Wednesday that it has developed four new computer chips that will be used to power generative AI features and content ranking systems within the tech giant’s own apps. The hardware will become part of Meta’s existing chip line known as MTIA, or Meta Training and Inference Accelerators. Meta partnered with Broadcom to develop … Read more
The video opens with a school superintendent lip-syncing a love songbut he’s not the only performer. AI-generated versions of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein join him on the ballad—a splice between Will Joseph Cook’s “Be Around Me” and a rewrite of the song by Beth McCarthy on TikTok—with Epstein … Read more