AI companies expect us to consume AI-generated content, even though they themselves vastly prefer human-generated content for training AI models.

Apple will launch a new deal with Klarna next week allowing customers to spread out the cost of devices like a subscription.

generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents, “You don’t need to write a single word.”

At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imaginations.

Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do, and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient.

MORFIUS X-Rotor is a new airborne counter-drone system that uses high-power microwave technology to disable enemy drones.

The accuracy of people using AI drops by one-third, but their certainty that they’re right more than doubles.

Amazon’s first great innovation was the ability to subtly lure people into dependence for eCommerce. Now they’re doing it again with attachment.

But look on the bright side: this is real vertical integration, people! Just imagine a future in which the same company can sell you a) a robot to teach you at school; b) a robot to compensate for the fact that you never learned to make friends at school; and c) a robot to gratify you because you’re lonely, alienated and your job just got automated out of existence!

The governments of China, California and New York agree on three harmful aspects of companion AI chatbots.