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PaintCam Eve shooting paintballs at home

Startup pitches a paintball-armed, AI-powered home security camera

grave with flowers on it

Do ‘griefbots’ help mourners deal with loss?

By Tim Reinboth / Undark

SpaceHopper robot in midair during parabolic flight test

Watch a tripod robot test its asteroid leaping skills

students using AI in class

Ready or not, AI is in our schools

By Mack DeGeurin

Two robots playing soccer

Watch two tiny, AI-powered robots play soccer

Slide Whistle robot quartet

Watch this robotic slide whistle quartet belt out Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’

Close up of wolf spider resting on web

Spider conversations decoded with the help of machine learning and contact microphones

Users wearing BCI cap to play video game

This cap is a big step towards universal, noninvasive brain-computer interfaces

Yuhang Hu working on Emo robot head

A robot named ‘Emo’ can out-smile you by 840 milliseconds

person taking photos of themselves in the dark

Please think twice before letting AI scan your penis for STIs

Autonomous robots help farmers prepare for world’s largest tulip bloom

Autonomous robots help farmers prepare for world’s largest tulip bloom

By Mack DeGeurin

data center dark hallway green shade fluorescent light

AI companies eye fossil fuels to meet booming energy demand

By Mack DeGeurin

Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died

AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journals

AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journals

By Mack DeGeurin

Woman talking with nurse chatbot on iPad

Silicon Valley wants to deploy AI nursebots to handle your care

Starship rocket launching during third test

Crypto scammers flooded YouTube with sham SpaceX Starship livestreams

Traffic light flashing yellow signal

Researchers propose fourth traffic signal light for hypothetical self-driving car future

Passenger staying at self-scan TSA station

TSA is testing a self-screening security checkpoint in Vegas

vintage photo of scientists with a robot prototype

AI promised humanlike machines–in 1958

By Danielle Williams / The Conversation

tail of a humpback whale in the ocean sticking out of the waves

Why scientists are tracking whale tails with AI

By Mack DeGeurin

Vacuum moving towards two blocks with Wordpress and Tumblr logos

OpenAI wants to devour a huge chunk of the internet. Who’s going to stop them?

OpenAI wants to make a walking, talking humanoid robot smarter

OpenAI wants to make a walking, talking humanoid robot smarter

By Mack DeGeurin

The Apple Car is dead

Google pauses Gemini image tools after AI generates ‘inaccuracies’ in race

Google pauses Gemini image tools after AI generates ‘inaccuracies’ in race

By Mack DeGeurin

Washington puzzles over AI in health care

Washington puzzles over AI in health care

By Darius Tahir / KFF Health News

ChatGPT has been generating bizarre nonsense (more than usual)

ChatGPT has been generating bizarre nonsense (more than usual)

By Mack DeGeurin

A ridiculous AI-generated rat penis made it into a peer-reviewed journal

A ridiculous AI-generated rat penis made it into a peer-reviewed journal

By Mack DeGeurin

Sora AI generated video still of woolly mammoth herd in tundra

OpenAI’s Sora pushes us one mammoth step closer towards the AI abyss

MethaneSAT concept art above Earth

A new AI-powered satellite will create Google Maps for methane pollution

Destroyed Waymo on after attacked by vandals in San Francisco

A crowd torched a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco

2,000 new characters from burnt-up ancient Greek scroll deciphered with AI

2,000 new characters from burnt-up ancient Greek scroll deciphered with AI

Hand reaching to press 'accept' on unknown smartphone call

FCC bans AI-generated robocalls

Google wants to fight deepfakes with a special badge

Google wants to fight deepfakes with a special badge

By Mack DeGeurin

Upset senior woman looks at the laptop screen

Sharing AI-generated images on Facebook might get harder… eventually

Three screenshots of Tesla driver wearing Apple Vision Pro

Don’t worry, that Tesla driver only wore the Apple Vision Pro for ’30-40 seconds’

Photo of an 18mo baby wearing a head-mounted camera

How a baby with a headcam taught AI to learn words

By Mack DeGeurin

The new policy proposal, if accepted, would make AI-generated robocalls easier to investigate and prosecute.

FCC wants to make AI-generated robocalls illegal

By Mack DeGeurin

As AI becomes more ubiquitous and naturalistic, many industry critics have voiced concerns about a potentially increasing number of people turning to technology instead of human relationships.

13 percent of AI chat bot users in the US just want to talk

X briefly banned search results for the singer’s name on the platform.

AI-generated Taylor Swift porn deepfakes ran rampant on X. Will laws catch up?

By Mack DeGeurin

Black and white portrait of George Carlin

Humans actually wrote that fake George Carlin ‘AI’ standup routine

Joe Biden speaking in front of American flag

A deepfake ‘Joe Biden’ robocall told voters to stay home for primary election

Orpheas Kofinakos, Herui Chen, Peter Zhang – The eXpressive Electronic Keyboard Instrument (XEKI)

Check out some of the past year’s most innovative musical inventions

Sam Altman: Age of AI will require an ‘energy breakthrough’

Sam Altman: Age of AI will require an ‘energy breakthrough’

By Mack DeGeurin

Beware the AI celebrity clones peddling bogus ‘free money’ on YouTube

Beware the AI celebrity clones peddling bogus ‘free money’ on YouTube

By Mack DeGeurin

How video game tech, AI, and computer vision help decode animal pain and behavior

How video game tech, AI, and computer vision help decode animal pain and behavior

OpenAI argues it is ‘impossible’ to train ChatGPT without copyrighted work

Sound level visualization of audio clip

The FTC wants your help fighting AI vocal cloning scams

Data visualization of all maritime activity in the North Sea

AI and satellite data helped uncover the ocean’s ‘dark vessels’

CyberRunner robot capable of playing Labyrinth maze game

Watch an AI-leveraging robot beat humans in this classic maze puzzle game

Rotating black surveillance control camera indoors

Rite Aid can’t use facial recognition technology for the next five years

Gavel on top of a computer for a judge

New UK guidelines for judges using AI chatbots are a mess

By Mack DeGeurin

Tesla Optimus robot handling an egg in demo video

Tesla’s Optimus robot can now squat and fondle eggs

EU’s powerful AI Act is here. But is it too late?

EU’s powerful AI Act is here. But is it too late?

By Mack DeGeurin

Brainoware biocomputing study illustration

A ‘brain organoid’ biochip displayed serious voice recognition and math skills

DALL E Generative AI text abstract photo

Generative AI could face its biggest legal tests in 2024

By Harry Guinness

Screenshot from Gemini-powered Bard demonstration video

Google announces Gemini, its ‘multimodal’ answer to ChatGPT

Researchers working with laser array in lab

Swapping surgical bone saws for laser beams

coding on a laptop

Will AI render programming obsolete?

By Michael L. Littman / MIT Press

An ambulance speeding through traffic at nighttime

Scientists are developing a handheld eye-scanner for detecting traumatic brain injury

How AI could help scientists spot ‘ultra-emission’ methane plumes faster—from space

How AI could help scientists spot ‘ultra-emission’ methane plumes faster—from space

On Friday, founder and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired by the board of directors. Chaos ensued.

Actually, never mind, Sam Altman is back as OpenAI’s CEO

Robot dog at Hyundai factory working on car

Hyundai’s robot-heavy EV factory in Singapore is fully operational

Black and white photo of merchant ship encountering rogue wave

An equation co-written with AI reveals monster rogue waves form ‘all the time’

Cruise robotaxi action shot at night

Controversial ‘robotaxi’ startup loses CEO