“Everyone’s on the phone on my show!” joked Charlie Bailey, a South Philadelphia librarian. He simply asked his audience to take out their phones so he could walk them through the steps to disable Apple Intelligence and Gemini. Bailey stands in front of a library classroom equipped for children; the focal point is the vibrant
Kalshi sent Netflix a cease-and-desist letter on Friday demanding that the streaming service pull the trailer for an upcoming documentary. In the letter, Kalshi claimed that the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.” “Instadocs: The Prediction Games” is a documentary about the rise of prediction markets. According to
This week a power line went down outside Washington, DC. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this took more than 10 minutes because more than 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped consuming power almost simultaneously. The event caused voltage on PJM’s grid to spike from
Midjourney, an artificial intelligence lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Co-Star, which reportedly has around 4.3 million monthly active users, is primarily used to help people determine their astrological birth charts, which they can then
Attie, Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you create personalized social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open research tool. The company said this week that it added a new feature to the AI assistant, called Quests, that allows users to ask it for information and news that is spread through the broader Bluesky social
Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the United States should respond to accusations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts and