More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 9)

Space startup Axiom Space is getting a hand from luxury fashion brand Prada to design its spacesuit for NASA's upcoming lunar mission.
NASA

Prada Is Officially Working on NASA’s Lunar Spacesuit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sam Bankman-Fried's old college roommate testified that the ex-FTX CEO would only take "occassional naps" on his Bahamian bean bag.
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Friend Says He Was Exaggerating How Much He Slept on His Bean Bag Chair

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Seattle is to pay nearly $2 million in the death of William Yurek, who may have survived a heart attack were it not for poorly kept paperwork.
Developments

Man Died After 911 Put His House on a “Blacklist” and He Had a Heart Attack

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If Seekr's AI algorithm is to be believed, The Messenger's reporting isn't all that reliable. Tough foot for a partnership to start on, no?
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Partners with AI Service That Measures Reliability, Which Flags Its Articles as Unreliable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apparently, Disney — a company famous for its fierce defense of its IP — doesn't have a squeak to say about AI-generated Terrorist Mickey.
Artificial Intelligence

Disney Has No Comment on Microsoft’s AI Generating Pictures of Mickey Mouse Doing 9/11

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Walgreens' experimental rollout of those ad-covered refrigerator screens has disintegrated into legal chaos.
Future Society

Walgreens’ Ad Screens on Drink Fridges Allegedly Caught Fire

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

G/O Media-owned sports news site Deadspin's AI, "Deadspin Bot," has been resuscitated, and is now busy churning out stats.
Artificial Intelligence

Deadspin’s AI Is Suddenly Publishing Dozens of New Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Trump layer Alina Habba showed up to the former president's Monday court hearing with a light-changing gamer's laptop.
Future Society

Trump’s Lawyer Shows Up to Court With Glowing ROG Gaming Laptop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This snack food overlord is readying himself and his company's delicious treats for war against weight loss drugs like Ozempic.
Food

Snack Food CEO Vows to Battle Ozempic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It looks like former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is doomed to come to face-to-face with some ghosts of the crypto exchange's destructive past.
Blockchain

Ukrainian Man Who Lost Everything in FTX Scheduled to Confront Sam Bankman-Fried

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, an avid jiu-jitsu devotee, took to Instagram to show off recent training trophies: two black eyes.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg Got Busted in the Face

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hopes that artificial general intelligence will be able to replace the so-called "median human."
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People With AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Spotify founder Daniel Ek, there's more to his old friend Mark Zuckerberg than meets the eye.
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg’s Friend Says He Has Three Distinct Personas

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Unfortunately for autonomous carmaker Cruise, its Houston beta test didn't get off to a very hot start this week.
Advanced Transport

Brand New Robotaxis Immediately Cause Traffic Jam in Houston

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's search AI thinks you can melt eggs. Its source? ChatGPT. Cheers to the end of the internet's usability!
Google

Google’s Search AI Says You Can Melt Eggs. Its Source Will Make You Facepalm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial draws nearer, his mom, Barbara Fried, is holding the line that it's all just a government witch hunt.
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Mom Says the Government Is Being Super Mean to Her Beautiful Boy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BuzzFeed's stock has been tumbling for months, and it appears that Buzzy the Robot may not be enough to save it from Nasdaq doom.
Artificial Intelligence

What Happened After BuzzFeed’s Pivot to AI: Catastrophic Stock Collapse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta is marching forward with its solution for reviving declining user numbers: introducing an array of AI-powered chatbots to its services.
Meta

Losing Human Users, Facebook Releasing Chatbots for Lonely to Talk To

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Watch out, New Yorkers. The NYPD's new surveillance Dalek — er, robot — has officially arrived at a subway platform near you.
Future Society

NYPD Deploys Villainous-Looking Dalek in Subway System

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An independent review board found several serious issues regarding NASA's Mars Sample Return mission's timetable, cost, and technical plans.
Mars

Experts Say NASA’s Mars Sample Return Plan Is Deeply Flawed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Got a billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Consider: donating it to Harvard Medical School in exchange for naming rights.
Science & Energy

Harvard Says That for $1 Billion, You Can Rename Its Medical School

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For an emerald mine that Elon Musk says doesn't exist, his father, Errol Musk, sure seems to have some gruesome mine memories to share.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Dad Says Someone at His Emerald Mine Got Eaten by a Crocodile

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google just plugged Bard into a variety of its products — but the AI chatbot might not be the helpful assistant that Google wants it to be.
Google

Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The new model, AlphaMissense, has identified 71 million missense mutations and classified 89 percent of them as likely benign or malignant.
Gene Editing

Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sorry everyone, but the government says Varda Space's orbital pharmaceuticals can't come back to Earth just yet.
Developments

US Government Won’t Let Space Drugs Factory Come Back to Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google "Tank Man," and you might be met with a fake, AI-generated "Tank Man Selfie" as the search engine's top — and featured! — result.
Google

Google Made an AI-Generated Fake the First Result for “Tank Man”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

FTX has sued Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, alleging that the couple either knew about (or ignored signs of) SBF's criminal behavior.
Blockchain

SBF’s Parents Sued for Ignoring “Bright Red Flags” About Son’s Crimes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of confidential company data — all because of one misconfigured permission token.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s AI Team Accidentally Leaks Terabytes of Company Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists Have Coined a Devastating New Term for Not Being Able to See the Stars at Night
Pollution

Scientists Have Coined a Devastating New Term for Not Being Able to See the Stars at Night

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When it comes to voicing his concerns over AI, English actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry isn't mincing words.
Artificial Intelligence

Actor Stephen Fry Furious After AI Rips Off His Voice Without Permission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New satellite imagery has revealed that Antarctic sea ice reached yet another record-low in mid-September.
Science & Energy

Antarctic Sea Ice Shrinks to “Mind-Blowing” Low

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We talked to a NOAA scientist about finding that mysterious golden "orb," the "weird stuff" in the deep sea, and the role of exploration.
Science & Energy

We Checked in With the Scientists Who Discovered That Mysterious “Orb” Thing Two Miles Underwater

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Veneers are trending. According to some experts, however, the cost of a perfect smile is higher than those seeking the procedure might think.
Developments

Celebrities Are Permanently Damaging Their Teeth for a “Perfect Smile,” But It’s Coming Back to Haunt Them Later

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Walter Isaacson's new biography, Elon Musk mass-fired Twitter employees who were caught saying mean things about him on Slack.
Elon Musk

Free Speech Fundamentalist Elon Musk Mass Fired Staff for Saying Mean Things About Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to new reporting, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried played much bigger roles in FTX's business proceedings than they've let on.
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents May Have Been More Involved in FTX Than We Thought

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists Perform “Health Check” on Planet Earth, Alarmed by What They Find
Climate Change

Scientists Perform “Health Check” on Planet Earth, Alarmed by What They Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk says that no monkey "has died as a result of a Neuralink implant" and that Neuralink only tests on terminally ill animals.
Neuroscience and Brain

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Tests Only on Terminally Ill Monkeys

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

All it allegedly took for cyberattackers to hack MGM Grand casino servers was a LinkedIn scroll and a phone call.
Hacking

Casinos Shut Down Amid Hacker Intrusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The IRS announced Monday that it will use "cutting-edge" AI tech to hold the US' wealthiest people and company accountable to tax debt.
Artificial Intelligence

The IRS Says It’s Using AI to Bust Zillionaire Tax Cheats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, Meta-formerly-Facebook is secretly developing a powerful new AI model designed to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4.
Meta

Meta Is Apparently Developing a Secret, Powerful New AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's been over a year since last summer's crypto crashes, and investors who lost on the digital currencies are still licking their wounds.
Cryptocurrency

Amateur Investor Laments Losing $80,000 on Crypto

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Feeling anxious about going to school? A school district in Kumamoto, Japan thinks it might have a solution: wheeled telepresence robots.
Robotics

Japanese Schools Installing Telepresence Robots for Students Who Want to Stay Home

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Laxatives are having a major cultural renaissance — so much so that soaring demand for the drugs is reportedly causing a national shortage.
Developments

Americans Are Buying So Many Laxatives That It’s Creating a Shortage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After replacing its human writers with a translation AI, G/O stripped Gizmodo Español of all bylines — including those of its laid-off staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists’ Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

51-year-old Reza Baluchi was arrested last week while attempting to traverse the Atlantic Ocean via rigged-out hamster wheel.
Science & Energy

Florida Man Arrested for Trying to Cross Ocean in “Hamster Wheel”… Again

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Top prosecutors from all 54 US states and territories are urging Congress to take action against AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
Artificial Intelligence

Every Single State’s Attorney General Is Calling for Action on AI-Generated Child Abuse Materials

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A fierce debate has erupted over whether it's time to rename A. hitleri, an unfortunate Slovenian beetle named to honor Adolf Hitler.
Science & Energy

Scientists Debate Whether to Rename Bug Named After Adolf Hitler

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gannett promised that no AI content would be published to its vast network without direct human oversight. This isn't how things played out.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Promised to Be Super Responsible With AI Before Completely Bungling It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gizmodo's owner fired the site's Spanish translators to replace them with automated software. Surprise: the AI is already doing a bad job.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Fires Spanish-Speaking Staff, Replaces Them With AI That Immediately Starts Making Sloppy Mistakes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We tracked down one of the diarrhea plane's unlucky passengers, who confirmed that the defecation disaster was indeed extensive.
Advanced Transport

Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft “Makeshift Biohazard Suits”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rather than simply scrub its many pages of Lede AI-generated content clean, Gannett is updating the articles to correct their many "errors."
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Updates Every AI-Generated Sports Article to Correct “Errors”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission rover and lander, Pragyaan and Vikram, are taking a well-earned nap as they await the next lunar sunrise.
Moon

India’s Moon Rover Has Gone to Sleep

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We spoke to a Gannett sports writer about high school sports coverage, why it matters, and what gets lost when you automate.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Sports Writer on Botched AI-Generated Sports Articles: “Embarrassing”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The NYPD plans to use its drone fleet to surveil large crowds this Labor Day weekend, including those congregating at private backyard events.
Drones

The NYPD Says It’s Going to Spy on Labor Day Parties Using Drones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Oil giant Exxon Mobil, one of the more prominent architects of our planet's doom, says that humanity is likely to miss 2050 climate goals.
Climate Change

Exxon Mobil Predicts Climate Efforts Will Fail

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you had "scientists discover spooky golden orb at the site of an ancient underwater volcano" on your 2023 bingo card, boy, are you in luck.
Biology

Scientists Find Strange Golden Object at Bottom of Pacific Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today and Many Other Newspapers Are Churning Out Terrible AI-Generated Sports Stories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We talked to Keith Thomas, the first paralysis patient to receive a movement and feeling-restoring double neural bypass surgery.
Brain

His Entire Body Was Paralyzed. Then They Put AI-Powered Chips in His Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study found that "acute exposure" to microplastics causes dementia-like symptoms in mice, in addition to other behavioral shifts.
Studies

Scientists Find That Microplastics Cause Dementia-Like Symptoms in Mice

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was clearly annoyed by a blog post declaring that Google's forthcoming Gemini model will quickly surpass GPT-4.
Google

OpenAI Rages at Report That Google’s New AI Crushes GPT-4

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A billionaire-backed firm has reportedly purchased thousands of acres of California ranch land with the intent to build a new Silicon Valley.
Future Society

Billionaires Are Reportedly Trying to Start a New City Near San Francisco

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you're considering a foray into amateur mushroom foraging, you might want to reconsider shopping for your beginner's guide on Amazon.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Worry That AI-Generated Books About Mushroom Foraging Will Get Someone Killed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While on an Arctic cruise, Martha Stewart and company harvested a "small iceberg" to make cocktails with. Hi, climate dystopia!
Science & Energy

Martha Stewart Harvests Small Iceberg for Swank Cocktails

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Columbus Dispatch has paused AI efforts after its sports writing AI started publishing awful articles about local high school match-ups.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré