David Jiang, cofounder and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid. His 10-year-old son played…
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I Built AI Clones of My Coworkers. Things Got Weird
When I decided to create artificial intelligence clones of my editors, my intentions were pure: I just wanted them to think I was good at…
A New Tool Found Malware That’s Guided by an AI Hive Mind—No Humans in Sight
For years, cybersecurity practitioners have tracked different types of malware and detected potential infections using digital fingerprints to identify different hacking tools and follow their…
Patti Harrison Had Dreams of a Tech Utopia. Silicon Valley Smashed Them
Patti Harrison, like every great comic, knows how to use her face. If you’ve seen her stealing scenes in TV shows like Tim Robinson’s I…
A New Chatbot Wants to Unlock the Secrets in Tattered Ancient Greek Records
Academic libraries across the globe are stuffed with hundreds of thousands of Ancient Greek papyrus fragments. Though many are so damaged that their meaning is…
How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
If the tech industry sought to create a method of seducing users into sending their deepest, most sensitive secrets to a server in a faraway…
AI, Tariffs, Rare Minerals: What to Expect From Trump’s Upcoming Summit With Xi Jinping
Of all the events in the United Nations General Assembly taking place this week, the most anticipated by far is the upcoming meeting between Donald…
Got an Android Phone? Google Thinks You’ll Probably Want a Googlebook Laptop
iPhones and Macs are like two peas in a pod. Apple’s hardware synergy means you can launch iPhone apps right from the macOS desktop, respond…
US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
Talks have begun between US and Chinese officials to propose a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of artificial intelligence incidents which…
It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got…