Siri made its debut on the iPhone in 2011, five years ahead of Google Assistant and 11 years before ChatGPT would open up to the…
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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
In 2020, face-recognition firm Clearview AI became infamous for scraping more than 3 billion photos from the internet to turn faces into names for police…
The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and beyond on Tuesday by announcing his resignation from Anthropic and delivering a grave…
I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again
As the author of a newsletter about artificial intelligence, I consider it my duty to experience the bleeding edge of this technology firsthand. This week,…
A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
Kepler also says it has improved the density of SRAM using ferroelectrics, which can read and write data at lower voltages than the mechanisms typically…
Whispering Complaints Into Your Phone May Be the Future of Customer Feedback
Some of the hottest software this year revolves around capturing voices. Whether it’s the sharp dictations of Wispr or the always-listening ears of Granola, voice-centered…
My Brief Summer Fling With Siri AI
When I first tested the developer beta of Apple’s Siri AI by taking it as my tour guide around San Francisco, I was convinced the…