Technology/Science
Race Toward ‘Autonomous’ AI Digital Assistants Grows
Around a decade after virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa burst onto the scene, a new wave of AI helpers with greater autonomy is raising the stakes, powered by the latest version of the ...
Automated Weather Insurance Could Offer Help in an Increasingly Hot World
Carlos José Báez experienced the full brunt of Hurricane Maria when it made landfall in Puerto Rico as a catastrophic storm in 2017.
Ransomware Criminals are Dumping Kids` Private Files Online After School Hacks
The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric ...
Robots Promise They Won’t Steal Jobs, Rebel Against Humans
Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and that they would not steal humans' jobs or rebel against us. But in the world's ...
The ‘New Abnormal’ of Wildfires and Smoky Skies Beyond California
It was a smell that invoked a memory—both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire ...
Still Hiring: Big Tech Layoffs Give Other Sectors an Opening
For the thousands of workers who'd never experienced upheaval in the tech sector, the recent mass layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta came as a shock. Now they are being ...
Judge Fines Lawyers $5,000 For Using Bogus Case Law From ChatGPT
A federal judge on Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an ...
Call for ‘Comprehensive Legislation’ in U.S. to Address AI Risks
U.S. Senate Majority Chuck Schumer on Wednesday called for "comprehensive legislation" to advance and ensure safeguards on artificial intelligence (AI) and will hold a series of forums in later this ...