He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
…language models pick up on semantic signals in job application material and embed them down the pipeline into decisions or recommendations. There is proof, even in the world of AI hiring tools…
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Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine
…This year, the biggest announcement, which as we said, has been their biggest announcement the last couple of years, was around Siri. They're rebranding it as Siri AI. Siri was always…
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
…Since Meta announced in March that its account support will be increasingly automated with AI, including for functions like updating your password, hackers found that they could exploit the tool to reset…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
…Once upon an AI time / training was paradigm / short talking models how / but inference runs the whole world now / Vera showed us who's the boss / at 35 times less the cost…
How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider
…Musk told the court that his concerns about OpenAI straying from its mission to do social good with AI escalated over time, and they finally began boiling over around 2023. “Only recently…
Rivian’s CEO on Tesla’s Cybertruck, Ferrari’s Luce, and What Happens If the R2 Fails
…models it launched in the US, it’s reflecting the last couple of years. We think R2 is going to represent a significant step up in our performance in reliability. Xiaomi announced…
Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini
…Will the user click on it? Is the user likely to convert? Turns out, AI models do a better job at those predictions. I would say that’s the biggest way Gemini…
There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
…Such a move suggests this new smartphone could run Android; however, the Reuters report indicates that Transformer might have an AI interface that would “eliminate the need for traditional app stores.” Generative…
I Test Hundreds of Laptops, and This Is My Honest Advice on What Laptop to Buy
…These are rolling out on other laptops, but Microsoft has yet to announce a refreshed Surface Laptop. My best guess would be an announcement around the Microsoft Build developer conference in early…
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
…On Tuesday night, open source code platform GitHub announced that it had been breached by hackers in one such software supply chain attack: A GitHub developer had installed a “poisoned” extension for…