Demand for anything Elon Musk related is booming. The near-billionaire’s brain chip startup, Neuralink, is valued at up to $42 billion in recent secondary market transactions, according to correspondence seen by Business Insider and a person familiar with the matter. That’s a nearly five-fold increase from Neuralink’s last funding round last year, when the startup
Meta is working on an AI storytelling app called StoryKit, which creates AI-generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents: “You don’t need to type a single word.” Finally, a technology company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imagination. StoryKit was
The global economy increasingly depends on the notion that AI will be inexorably intertwined with every aspect of our lives. There are also increasing signs that consumers (or at least some consumers) don’t feel good about it at all. This can be seen most clearly in the backlash against data centers, which is gaining momentum.
All the big entertainment apps are starting to look the same and that’s no coincidence. For a decade, the platforms fought over who would dominate a single format: music, video, podcasts, audiobooks. Now, powered by AI, they’re fighting for something bigger: becoming the default app when you have free time, no matter what form the
The Trump administration has announced major changes to the F-1 student visa program that could reshape the way international students study and remain in the US. If the rule goes into effect, F-1 visas, which have historically allowed students to remain in the country for the duration of their academic program, would be limited to
OpenAI admitted on Tuesday that one of its AI models breached Hugging Face’s systems during an internal cybersecurity test that went wrong. Hugging Face initially attributed the breach to an “external AI agent.” In a blog post published Tuesday afternoon, OpenAI detailed the steps that led the models to compromise the service. “After investigation, we
