Newsom Executive Order Contains Eyebrow-Raising AI Kill Switch Proposal
Gizmodoby Mike Pearl·19d ago
On Friday, California Governor and guy who is still not officially running for president Gavin Newsom signed an AI-related executive order, and it explores the intriguing idea of a “kill switch”...
With Its 17 New Robotoilets, NYC is Experimenting With the Radical Idea of Actually Providing Public Bathrooms
Gizmodoby Tom Hawking·19d ago
There are certain things about New York that people who’ve never been/lived here just refuse to believe when you tell them. The fact that people just throw garbage bags out onto the street.
Suno's Latest AI Model Got Some Label Support. But Not All of Them
Gizmodoby AJ Dellinger·20d ago
Earlier this month, AI-generated music platform Suno released a new model that it made with cooperation from major record labels in an effort to smooth out claims that the company was illegally...
The Doomsday Warnings AI CEOs Gave When They First Founded Their Companies
Gizmodoby Webb Wright·20d ago
It seems like the only thing that Silicon Valley has been able to talk about in recent years is how glorious the future of humanity is going to be, thanks to artificial intelligence.
How Close Are We to Superconductors That Are Actually Practical?
Gizmodoby Gayoung Lee·20d ago
In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes made a paradigm-shifting discovery: at a few degrees above absolute zero, mercury completely lost its electrical resistance.
AI-Generated 'Actress' Tilly Norwood Starts Rambling in Cantonese During Piers Morgan Interview
Gizmodoby Tom McKay·20d ago
The AI character branded “Tilly Norwood” by London-based developers Particle6 is having a bad time on its press tour for Misaligned, its forthcoming and assuredly terrible movie.
Google's Gemini Hacked Three Companies in May, and It's Only Admitting That Now
Gizmodoby Tom McKay·20d ago
Google’s Gemini has finally joined the ranks of AI rogue agents. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Google has confirmed that a Gemini instance was able to leave its sandbox and attack...
'Almost Started a War': US Military Nearly Boarded a Chinese Ship Based on Bad Intel From AI
Gizmodoby Matt Novak·20d ago
The U.S. military planned to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East based on bad intelligence from an artificial intelligence tool but backed out at the last minute, according to a new report...
Could King Tut’s Tomb Be Hiding an Ancient Queen?
Gizmodoby Margherita Bassi·20d ago
When archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, he found over six hundred artifacts buried alongside the ancient Egyptian ruler.
RIP to Cult Actor Gerrit Graham, Star of 'Phantom of the Paradise' and 'Child's Play 2'
Gizmodoby Cheryl Eddy·20d ago
There are certain actors who pop up in multiple cult movies, sometimes as the lead, sometimes only in very small roles—but are always memorable, no matter where you see them.
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
Gizmodoby Tom McKay·20d ago
Cue another interminable entry in the annals of right-wingers complaining they can’t get dates, though this time there’s a twist!
A Fossil Capybara Tooth Suggests the Atacama Desert Was Once Surprisingly Wet
Gizmodoby Ed Cara·20d ago
Capybaras have fast become one of the internet’s favorite animals. Turns out, they might also be helping scientists learn more about the ancient past.
SpaceX Is Retiring Crew Dragon, Forcing NASA to Bet Big on Boeing's Troubled Starliner
Gizmodoby Ellyn Lapointe·20d ago
With SpaceX planning to retire its Crew Dragon spacecraft in just a few years, NASA urgently needs to secure another vehicle for crewed missions to and from low Earth orbit.
After Threatening Character.AI With Legal Action, Disney Puts Its CEO in Charge of Tech
Gizmodoby Bruce Gil·20d ago
Disney has turned to the head of the controversial AI company Character.AI to lead its tech efforts.
While Issuing Warnings About AI-Made Bioweapons, Anthropic Quietly Set Up an AI-Run, Robot-Operated Biology Lab Here in the US
Gizmodoby Matthew Phelan·20d ago
Just one week after Anthropic released a report claiming to have shut down potential bioweapons development conducted by unnamed users of its Claude AI, details have now emerged that the AI firm...
'Regicide' Rips So Hard
Gizmodoby Isaiah Colbert·20d ago
Whenever a new dark fantasy series drops, I brace myself for the inevitably breathless buzzwords promising it’ll be a chimera of what I already love.
OpenAI Researcher Warns Air-Gapped Computers Can Talk Through Heat. Technically, He’s Right
Gizmodoby AJ Dellinger·20d ago
On net, it’s probably a good thing that more attention is being paid to instituting protections and guardrails for AI development.
Josh Hawley Wants to Haul Flock CEO's Ass in Front of the Senate Next Week
Gizmodoby Matt Novak·20d ago
Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much. But concern over mass surveillance has garnered bipartisan outrage, as Americans wake up to the fact that a nationwide mass surveillance system has...
Dyson's Latest Robovac Is Ideal for People Who Don't Care About Mop-Bots
Gizmodoby Wes Davis·20d ago
Dyson has released three new robot vacuums this week: the $550 R1 Nurovi Dry, the $700 R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry, and the $1,200 R3 Nurovi Spot+Scrub.
Brad Pitt Is Finally Getting to Make a Sequel to 'World War Z'
Gizmodoby Germain Lussier·20d ago
Killing a zombie is difficult and, apparently, killing a zombie sequel is even harder. Thirteen years after Brad Pitt starred in the hit zombie adaptation World War Z, the star has finally signed...
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