More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 7)

Astronomers believe an egg-shaped exoplanet is hurtling towards its parent star faster than previously thought.
Off-World

Astronomers Intrigued by Planet Shaped Like Egg

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chip manufacturer Nvidia and the startup Hippocratic AI are teaming up to replace nurses with freaky AI healthcare "agents."
Prosthetics and Devices

Nvidia Announces AI-Powered “Agents” to Replace Nurses in Hospitals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Assassin's Creed maker Ubisoft has unveiled prototypes for its AI-powered non-playable characters (NPCs), dubbed "NEO NPCs."
Artificial Intelligence

Ubisoft Shows Off AI-Powered NPC That Can Talk Back

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google researchers say a new AI model called Vlogger can transform a single still image of a person into a moving, talking avatar.
Google

Dystopian Google AI Tool Turns Still Images into Creepy Talking Videos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Department of Homeland Security revealed a sweeping AI roadmap. Some of its proposed applications are concerning.
Artificial Intelligence

The Department of Homeland Security Wants to Use AI to Train Immigration Officers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors are increasingly using AI tools to take clinical notes, a move proponents say will reduce physician burnout and improve patient care.
Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Using AI to Automatically Generate Clinical Notes on Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Arena Group, which allowed for the publishing of AI content to legacy title Sports Illustrated, has lost the venerable magazine entirely.
Artificial Intelligence

The Company That Published Fake AI Authors at Sports Illustrated Just Lost the Whole Magazine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A case study in SEO bros, the new Google spam update, and the AI-generated content continuing to fill the web.
Google

SEO Guy Mocks Google for Deindexing His “Gibberish” AI Sites

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wondering what data OpenAI used to train its buzzy new text-to-video AI? OpenAI CTO Mira Murati seems to be wondering, too.
OpenAI

In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former president Donald Trump took to Truth Social to dismiss unflattering — and real — videos of himself as AI-generated fakes.
Artificial Intelligence

Donald Trump Is Just Calling Any Video He Doesn’t Like “AI” Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new report reveals that YouTube is filling up with AI-generated kids' videos, designed to glean cash via lucrative toddler eyeballs.
Brain

Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta's v63 update allows users of its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets to lay down while using their devices. VR porn enthusiasts, freak on.
Virtual Reality

Meta’s VR Headsets Are Getting a Masturbation Mode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A surgery team in the UK successfully utilized the recently-released Apple Vision Pro to assist spinal surgery.
Prosthetics and Devices

Surgeons Use Apple VR Headset During Spinal Operation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has scientific bones to pick with Dune's sand-thumping and worm movements.
Physics

Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A digital paper was revived from the media graveyard — only to have its archived news articles re-attributed to fake writers.
Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Startled to Discover His Byline Has Been Replaced by Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study linked the presence of microplastics in artery-clogging plaque to a higher risk of heart disease and even death.
Studies

Microplastics Found Clogging Human Arteries

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two Miami teenagers were charged with felonies for creating AI-generated deepfake nudes of underage classmates, a Wired report reveals.
Artificial Intelligence

Middle Schoolers Arrested for Making AI Nudes of Classmates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The bill, called DEFIANCE for short, would allow victims of nonconsensual deepfake porn to sue its creators, distributors, and receivers.
Artificial Intelligence

AOC Announces Bill That Would Let Women Sue People Who Make Deepfake Porn of Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone finally figured out how to make their Tesla Cybertruck look pretty cool, actually: covering it in graffiti.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted Covered in Graffiti

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Microsoft engineer says the company won't investigate its text-to-image AI's disturbing outputs — so he reached out to the FTC.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Engineer Sickened by Images Its AI Produces

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google announced a substantial overhaul to its spam policies for search yesterday, introducing a crackdown on AI content.
Google

Google Search Cracking Down on Mass-Produced AI-Generated Slime

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bill Gates posted a staggeringly vibeless photo of himself and Mark Zuckerberg at a lavish billionaire wedding on Sunday.
Future Society

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg Look Extra Disheveled at Billionaire Wedding

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As AI is increasingly integrated into our lives, scientists building the tech are still trying to understand it, the MIT Tech Review reports.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Have a Dirty Secret: Nobody Knows How AI Actually Works

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Silicon Valley chronicler Kara Swisher says Elon Musk's need for adoration and lack of real support has led the SpaceX CEO down a dark road.
Elon Musk

Kara Swisher Says Elon Musk Is Addicted to a Bizarre “Drug”: Sycophancy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

MAGA influencers are using generative AI to fabricate photos of Donald Trump alongside smiling Black voters, a BBC report reveals.
Artificial Intelligence

MAGA Uses AI to Invent Pictures of Trump With Black People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Microsoft data center in Goodyear, Arizona is guzzling the desert town's water to support cloud computing and AI efforts.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Draining Arizona’s Water for its AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal
Artificial Intelligence

Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As last year's record-breaking ocean temperatures cease to slow down, warming waters around the globe continue to alarm scientists.
Climate Change

Scientists Alarmed by Spike in Ocean Temperatures

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is paying publishers to test an AI tool that generates news — by reportedly gobbling up and regurgitating already-published news.
Google

Google Quietly Paying Journalists to Generate Articles Using Unreleased AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This week, Google's News tab suddenly disappeared from Search. Backdrop that with layoffs and AI, and behold: fresh media industry anguish.
Future Society

Amid Brutal Media Layoffs, Google “Tests” Deleting News Tab

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Wall Street Journal reports that US officials are warning Putin to refrain from launching Russia's nuclear anti-satellite weapon.
Off-World

US Gov Warns Putin Not to Launch Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla suddenly canceled an order for 2,000 pies — allegedly leaving a charitable small business out of a few thousand dollars.
Future Society

Tesla Screws Small Business by Canceling Order for 2,000 Pies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A lawsuit filed against Tinder and Hinge's owner accuses the online dating giant of intentionally getting users addicted to the apps.
Future Society

Lawsuit Accuses Dating Apps of Intentionally Addicting Users

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yes, software developer Jacob Wright wore his Vision Pro headset for a few wedding photos. No, he didn't wear it during the ceremony.
Virtual Reality

We Talked to the Guy Who Wore a Vision Pro VR Headset at His Wedding

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Albedo Space wants to launch satellites that can track the movements of and even image individual people. Obviously, privacy is an issue.
Future Society

Alarming New Satellite Can Spy on Individual People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Today in AI ouroboros vertigo: an AI content farm swindled our reporting about misleading AI-generated fakes at Sports Illustrated.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Site Ripped Off Our Reporting About AI Ripoffs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Screenshots show OpenAI's ChatGPT spouting gibberish and, in one case, even suggesting that it's in the room with users.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Appears to Have Lost Its Mind Last Night

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk has once again been accused of operating a fake online persona. Just another day!
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Accused of Operating Fake Persona as “Adrian Dittmann”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Otter CEO Sam Liang says a "working prototype" of an AI avatar able to attend meetings in lieu of its human counterpart is on the horizon.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Says Later This Year, Your AI Will Be Able to Attend Meetings For You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The more Sora generations, the clearer it is that OpenAI's new text-to-video AI suffers many of the same issues that other AI models do.
OpenAI

The More We See of OpenAI’s Text-to-Video AI Sora, the Less Impressed We Are

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts at the Mozilla Foundation are warning that AI girlfriends are plagued by concerning privacy pitfalls and murky data use policies.
Artificial Intelligence

Warning: “AI Girlfriends” Are Hoarding Your Personal Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some folks who cashed out the eye-watering $3,500 (before tax!) for Apple's Vision Pro headset are already showing some buyer's remorse.
Virtual Reality

People Are Already Returning Their Apple Vision Pro Headsets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A landslide caused by the recent atmospheric river left three oceanside mansions in Southern California dangling off the edge of a cliff.
Climate Change

Luxury Homes Teetering Above Cliff After Landslide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Indonesian political party used generative AI to "resurrect" the dead dictator Suharto via deepfake amid the nation's ongoing elections.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Used to Resurrect Dead Dictator to Sway Election

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Our Universe Is Swallowing Baby Parallel Universes As It Expands, Scientists Suggest
Artificial Intelligence

Our Universe Is Swallowing Baby Parallel Universes As It Expands, Scientists Suggest

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google Renames Its Forgettable AI in Fight to Stay Relevant
Google

Google Renames Its Forgettable AI in Fight to Stay Relevant

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that certain lifestyle choices warded off dementia symptoms in patients whose brains already contained Alzheimer's makers.
Neuroscience and Brain

If You Have Signs of Dementia, Doctors Found a Way to Help

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ex-Googler Jim Albrecht argues that generative AI is the "wolf" coming for the media industry. Unfortunately, he's probably right.
Google

Former Google News Director Admits Big Tech Is Killing Journalism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A viral video shows a driver dangerously wearing an Apple Vision Pro headset while cruising hands-free in a full self-driving Tesla.
Virtual Reality

Gaze in Horror at This Guy Wearing a VR Headset While Driving

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet Poem/1, an AI-powered clock that tells time in rhyming poetry. Just one catch: it'll sometimes make things up — the time included.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Clock Sometimes Hallucinates the Wrong Time

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ingenuity, NASA's recently-damaged Mars helicopter, has one last task before its mission is officially over: wiggling around a little.
Mars

Derelict Helicopter Will Twitch on Mars, NASA Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has recaptured the escaped Japanese macaque on the lam in the Scottish Highlands.
Drones

Escaped Monkey Hunted With Drone

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stanley's wildly popular cups contain lead. The company says that lead poisoning due to using the viral tumblers is "rare" — but possible.
Developments

Stanley Cups Only Expose Drinkers to Lead If Damaged, Company Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To curb the spread of nonconsensual AI deepfake porn of Taylor Swift, Twitter-formerly-X decided to block all searches for the star's name.
Artificial Intelligence

Twitter’s Idiotic Response to AI Porn: Block All Searches for “Taylor Swift”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new PBS documentary captured the last moments rare Madagascan chameleon bursting into a vibrant display of color as she died.
Science & Energy

Chameleon Bursts Into Pulsating Color Just Before Dying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers gene-hacked a strain of bacteria to turn wasteful polyethylene plastic into a spider silk-like material as strong as Kevlar.
Science & Energy

Scientists Gene-Hack Bacteria to Turn Waste Plastic Into Kevlar-Like Spider Silk

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BMW has signed an unprecedented deal with the robotics firm Figure to bring general-purpose humanoid robots into its factories.
Robotics

BMW Putting Humanoid Robots to Work in Its Factory

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the FDA to take action on tianeptine, or the addictive drug better known as "gas station heroin."
Developments

Please Don’t Take This “Gas Station Heroin” Even Though It’s Technically Legal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The package delivery company DPD's AI chatbot was caught swearing at customers -- and even insulting DPD itself.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Customer Service Bot Disabled After Trashing Company Using It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A recent study by Amazon AI researchers found that a "shocking amount of the web" comprises poor-quality AI-generated and translated content.
Artificial Intelligence

Huge Proportion of Internet Is AI-Generated Slime, Researchers Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sports Illustrated owner The Arena Group has laid off 100 employees, the latest blow to the media organization following its AI scandal.
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Publisher Laying Off Staff After AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET owner Red Ventures is reportedly having a tough time finding a buyer for the website —  and CNET's AI scandal bears some of the blame.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

America's East Coast — particularly its major population centers — is sinking at a scarily rapid pace, a new satellite imagery study shows.
Climate Change

Satellites Show the East Coast Is Sinking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré