IT総合 FCC finally gets its 5th Commissioner in Anna Gomez
The FCC is whole again with the Senate’s confirmation of Anna Gomez as the agency’s 5th Commissioner, empowe...
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IT総合 IT総合 OpenAI angles to put ChatGPT in classrooms with special tutor prompts
OpenAI wants its conversational AI agent ChatGPT everywhere, and that includes classrooms — despite the immense potentia...
IT総合 Starfield review: Guns and ships galore, but a vacuum of wonder
The long-awaited “Skyrim in space,” Starfield, is out today after many years in development over at Bethesda...
IT総合 Betaworks goes all-in on augmentative AI in latest camp cohort: ‘We’re rabidly interested’
Betaworks is no stranger to investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning, but the latest cohort of their Ca...
IT総合 Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT
From its prominence in the tech world, you might think that everyone on the planet is using ChatGPT or some other AI too...
IT総合 VFX artists show that Hollywood can use AI to create, not exploit
Hollywood may be embroiled in ongoing labor disputes that involve AI, but the technology infiltrated film and TV long, l...
IT総合 You can finally buy Lego’s Braille Bricks
Building with Lego bricks has stayed a formative and important practice for kids around the world, partly because itR...
IT総合 Epic’s First Run offers 100% revenue share to game devs in exchange for exclusivity
Epic’s ongoing quest to dethrone Steam as the PC gaming storefront of note has taken a new turn with First Run, an...
IT総合 Third time’s the charm? Sony makes $200 PlayStation Portal in-home handheld official
Sony has twice tested the waters in portable gaming, with the unsuccessful but fondly remembered PSP and Vita. Third tim...
IT総合 AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models
Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guard...
IT総合 Hidden forces and sliding screens trick the senses to make VR feel more real
The next big thing in VR might not be higher resolution or more immersive sound, but an experience augmented by physical...
IT総合 Matter filters out microplastics, one washer at at time — and raises $10M to go industrial
Microplastics are everywhere — quite literally, as study after study shows. And while we can’t do much about the t...
IT総合 Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said today that the company had made an existential business decision in 2018 that f...
IT総合 AI.com flips from ChatGPT to Elon Musk’s X.ai
There was a bit of a hubbub in February as it emerged that OpenAI had seemingly purchased AI.com in order to redirect it...
IT総合 FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls
The FCC’s robocaller penalties are growing as the agency tracks down and terminates their operations — this time r...
IT総合 Steg.AI puts deep learning on the job in a clever evolution of watermarking
Watermarking an image to mark is one’s own is something that has value across countless domains, but these days it...
IT総合 Google Assistant reportedly pivoting to generative AI
When Google had its unpleasant realization that it had been complacently spinning its wheels on a form of fake AI for a ...
IT総合 8BitDo’s NES-themed mechanical keyboard comes with truly large A and B ‘super buttons’
It can be difficult to differentiate oneself in the crowded mechanical keyboard market. The variety of providers and cus...
IT総合 It’s not just Netflix’s $900K AI jobs, it’s the hypocrisy
The discovery of an AI product manager role at Netflix with a pay ceiling of $900,000 sent critics of the company and en...
IT総合 A high-tech third eye for neurosurgeons, Proprio could change the OR forever
Surgeries of all kinds have become more and more powerfully assisted by technology, but in most cases it’s still a...
IT総合 AI leaders warn Senate of twin risks: moving too slow and moving too fast
Leaders from the AI research world appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss and answer questions about ...
IT総合 OpenAI scuttles AI-written text detector over ‘low rate of accuracy’
OpenAI has shut down its AI classifier, a tool that claimed to determine the likelihood a text passage was written by an...
IT総合 ChatGPT comes to Android next week, but you can sign up today
Two months after launching for iOS, ChatGPT is available to “pre-order” for Android users who want to take t...
IT総合 Top AI companies visit the White House to make ‘voluntary’ safety commitments
While substantive AI legislation may still be years away, the industry is moving at light speed and many — including the...
IT総合 Maybe showing off an AI-generated fake TV episode during a writers’ strike is a bad idea
The ongoing strike of creatives in TV and film, plus the nascent threat of AI-based writing and effects, make it a compl...
IT総合 Thousands of authors sign letter urging AI makers to stop stealing books
If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair ...
IT総合 FTC reportedly looking into OpenAI over ‘reputational harm’ caused by ChatGPT
The FTC is reportedly in at least the exploratory phase of investigating OpenAI over whether the company’s flagshi...
IT総合 Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM
Google is making its “AI notebook for everyone” available to a select few, and renaming it from Project Tail...
IT総合 Bedrock’s autonomous ocean-mapping ambitions score $25M as renewables rise
The demand for offshore wind has skyrocketed, like all renewable energy sources — but the necessary work of surveying, i...
IT総合 Sustainable Ocean Alliance converts its accelerator into a broader ‘Ecopreneur Network’
Startup accelerators are interesting places, but the model of packaging a good idea up and firing it at VCs from a demo ...