In recent years Google has used the word “helpful” to describe new features added to its search product, its voice assistant, its generative AI tool Bard, even its Pixel earbuds. A keyword-search...
OpenAI is an unconventional company in many ways, but last November it took a leaf from the standard tech industry playbook: It held a developer conference where CEO Sam Altman urged software...
Is this the way the walled garden ends: not with a bang but a beep? In December, Bay Area upstart Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage—with help from a teen coder—to give Android phones full...
The US Department of Justice has got mail: A coalition of more than a dozen tech advocacy groups wrote to the agency today calling on it to launch an investigation into allegedly...
Elon Musk says that advertisers fleeing X after his endorsement of an antisemitic post could “kill” the platform formerly known as Twitter. And he has a simple message for those companies, which...
It’s 8 pm on a recent night this fall, I’m finally unwinding, and Del Harvey is texting me. Again.This time she’s sending a screenshot of tense tweets exchanged between the supreme leader...
Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty photos in training Stability’s AI photo-generation tool,...
