Meta’s new AI agent app is quickly taking hold of the consumer market, unseating ChatGPT as the top free app on Apple’s App Store in recent days. The app, which features a personal AI agent that books appointments, shops, and organizes calendars on people’s behalf, is the talk of tech circles this week. Named Muse,
ALPRs are AI-powered cameras that capture images of all passing vehicles. The camera systems turn details into datapoints searchable by anyone with access to the information. Today, there are more than 130,000 ALPRs on U.S. streets. And more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies use cameras produced by a single manufacturer, Flock Safety, which says its
American footwear brand Converse has pulled an advert that social media users said evoked Ku Klux Klan imagery, saying it recognised “that we got this wrong”. The photo, posted to the company’s Instagram account, received backlash online after critics described lighting in the image as looking like a white pointed hood. A pair of shoes,
Macklemore was removed from the tour on Monday, sparking a backlash that included Sheeran’s other support acts dropping out in protest. Sheeran has said the decision to drop the rapper was made by his promoters, Messina Touring Group, not by him. Messina Touring Group said Macklemore was dropped because some venues – such as Kraft’s
Voices across Hollywood and Washington are speaking out after Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour for making pro-Palestine comments on stage. “Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder, one of TV’s most politically outspoken stars, wrote on her Instagram stories on Tuesday, “Ed Sheeran i say this as a ginger. i hope you get a REALLY
Mark Cuban says the greater threat to humanity isn’t an AI apocalypse, but how people might react to doomsday warnings. The tech billionaire wrote late Monday on X that he sees a “far greater risk from what humans do in response to what they see on social media, than what agent swarms will do.” Cuban
