A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M
Ai-Da is the world's first ultra-realistic robot artist. She can draw, and is a performance artist. Sian Cain / The Guardian : First artwork painted by humanoid robot to sell at a...
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M
The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence.
San Francisco's next mayor, Dan Lurie, a Levi's heir with no political experience, wasn't tech leaders' top choice but is a moderate who aims to work with them
votes were simply not trending in the right direction enough for her [image] Joe Rivano Barros / @jrivanob : Daniel Lurie just gave his acceptance speech at St. Mary's square in Ch...
Epic debuts the Epic Games Store on iOS in the EU, offering its games, including Fortnite, and plans to start onboarding third-party games starting in December
Apple can go to hell — [images] @macstories@mastodon.macstories.net : The Epic Cost of Tim Sweeney's App Store Disputes with Apple and Google https://www.macstories.net/... Steve...
Epic debuts the Epic Games Store on iOS in the EU, offering its games, including Fortnite, and plans to start onboarding third-party games starting in December
The Epic Games Store gives iPhone users in the EU an alternative to Apple's App Store for the first time.
DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore's Law, died on April 23 at age 91
Steve Lohr / New York Times : X: @nytimes and @stevelohr . LinkedIn: Dario Gil . Forums: Slashdot X: @nytimes : Robert Dennard, an engineer who invented the silicon memory technol...
Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86
Jim Simons just died. Simons was an award-winning mathematician … Thomas Sumner / Simons Foundation : Remembering the Life and Careers of Jim Simons Jonathan Kandell / New York Ti...
How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more
Memo to US staff: TikTok vows a legal battle if the US' divestment bill becomes law, saying the bill is “a clear violation” of its users' First Amendment rights
TikTok told employees it will fight in the courts if a US bill forcing a ban or divestiture of the Chinese-owned app …
Memo to US staff: TikTok vows a legal battle if the US' divestment bill becomes law, saying the bill is “a clear violation” of its users' First Amendment rights
TikTok told employees it will fight in the courts if a US bill forcing a ban or divestiture of the Chinese-owned app …
How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more
The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok
The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it …
The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok
The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it …
Study finds that China produced almost 50% of the world's top AI researchers, compared to ~18% from the US, thanks to China's heavy investment in AI education
China has produced a huge number of top A.I. engineers in recent years. New research shows that, by some measures, it has already eclipsed the United States.
Gerald M. Levin, the former Time Warner CEO who oversaw the AOL merger, widely considered the worst corporate merger in US history, died on March 13 at age 84
but wow. He's dead! Cut a little slack! — www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/o... X: Steve Case / @stevecase : Jerry Levin was a pioneer and visionary. More than two decades ago, Jerry...
Transgender people say games help them explore their identities; character creation in RPGs like Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 makes fewer gendered assumptions
and gender. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : Many transgender and nonbinary people have turned to video games with robust character creation tools as places where they can sa...
Vera Molnar, considered the godmother of generative art for her computer-aided paintings and drawings that started in the 1960s, died on December 7 at age 99
in partnership with @martingrasser — released a series of 500 pieces entitled “Themes and Variations,” which would turn out to be some of her last work. https://deca.art/... @hello...
Vera Molnar, considered the godmother of generative art for her computer-aided paintings and drawings that started in the 1960s, died on December 7 at age 99
Experimenting with algorithms, she began to employ the principles of computation in her work even before she gained access to an actual computer.
Sources detail what happened at OpenAI before and after Sam Altman's firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other
Sources detail what happened at OpenAI in the build-up to Sam Altman's firing; some board members believed that Altman was trying to pit them against each other
the OpenAI chief scientist who helped fire Sam Altman then backtracked—should jump ship for xAI or Tesla Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : OpenAI's Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Te...