OpenAI’s new AI-powered browser – ChatGPT Atlas is here. Designed around conversational AI, the Perplexity Comet rival uses ChatGPT for navigating and interacting with the internet. Unlike traditional web browsers like Chrome, Edge and Firefox, which let you browse the web via search boxes and tabs, ChatGPT Atlas puts the AI chatbot at its centre … Read more
YouTube has announced that it’s likeness detection tool, which gives creators the option to find content where their “face may have been altered or generated by AI” to more users. In a blog post, the Google-owned video-sharing platform announced that the new likeness management technology will help creators protect themselves against content generated by generative … Read more
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of raping and fatally beating his former manager at a Florida convenience store is scheduled to be put to death in November under a death warrant signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is setting a record pace for executions. Richard Barry Randolph, 63, … Read more
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — An immigration enforcement sweep targeting vendors on Manhattan’s famed Canal Street turned chaotic on Tuesday after droves of angry New Yorkers surrounded federal agents and attempted to block them from driving off, prompting arrests and fierce standoffs along a bustling downtown corridor. The confrontation began shortly after 4 … Read more
Samsung on Wednesday launched a mixed-reality headset priced at $1,800, half the cost of Apple’s Vision Pro, igniting a price war in the high-end XR headset market. The Galaxy XR, which debuts this week in the US and South Korea, is being co-developed with Google and Qualcomm. Google is providing the Android XR operating system, … Read more
RALEIGH, N.C. — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders were poised Wednesday to complete a retooling of part of the state’s U.S. House map in hopes of picking up an additional GOP seat and helping President Donald Trump retain majority control of the lower chamber of Congress in next year’s midterm elections. … Read more
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayoral candidates are set to meet for their final debate Wednesday night, with Democrat Zohran Mamdani looking to stay in control of a race increasingly seen as his to win while former Gov. Andrew Cuomo amps up the pressure on Republican Curtis Sliwa to drop … Read more
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have joined prominent computer scientists, economists, artists, evangelical Christian leaders and American conservative commentators Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck to call for a ban on AI “superintelligence” that threatens humanity. The letter, released Wednesday by a politically and geographically diverse group of public figures, is squarely aimed at tech … Read more
The fascination with China’s ability to build things America struggles with, from bridges to advanced tech, risks a dangerous miscalculation about what drives China. Source link
Thousands of sea cucumbers have washed up on the beach in the Oregon coastal town of Seaside thanks to a combination of heavy surf and low tide. The partially translucent, pink gelatinous creatures are called skin breathing sea cucumbers. They normally burrow into the sand along the low tideline and farther out. But on Tuesday, … Read more