Author: News Room
The big drama in AI land today is decidedly nerdy stuff.But the hubbub highlights a concern everyone should care about: Can what you type into AI help train a machine that one day beats you at your own game?On Monday, Tristan Buckmaster, an NYU mathematician, and Levent Alpöge, a mathematician…
Seyfried played Holmes all the way from her time at Stanford in 2003 (where she did the titular dropping out) through to the catastrophic collapse of her company Theranos in 2015, spurred by an exposé published in The Wall Street Journal, in the 2022 Hulu limited series “The Dropout.”Theranos purported…
Congratulations to Google and Meta — they’re expecting.OpenAI’s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, was describing her company’s ads ambitions on Tuesday when she said that ChatGPT is like “if Google and Meta had a baby.”Friar made the remarks before a full room of investors and analysts at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia…
Here’s everything that Instinct — an invitation-only AI assistant going viral among Silicon Valley tech types — has done for me over the past few days:• Booked a cabin for my birthday and made a dinner reservation.• Ordered whey protein from Costco.• Faxed (faxed!) an obscure document to my bank…
Your grocery bill probably feels like it finally caught its breath. Groceries rose just 2.7% over the past year — downright tame by recent standards. Enjoy it while it lasts. Because something ugly happened in the commodity markets last month, and it’s pointed straight at your shopping cart. In August,…
An investment can increase substantially in value without creating an immediate federal income tax bill. In a taxable account, gains generally aren’t taxed until the asset is sold. That tax deferral can be valuable, but when and how the gain is eventually realized can have a significant effect on the…
It’s back-to-school season — and that means that some bright-eyed college freshmen and their proud families are getting ready to shell out six figures to attend their dream schools.Tuition prices have soared in recent decades, even as Americans have grown more skeptical of the value of a four-year degree.Still, there’s…
You no longer have to use ChatGPT to imagine what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s so-called doomsday bunker might look like.On Tuesday, NEON, the independent studio that brought “Parasite” to North America, released the first look at Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial,” a star-studded movie expected to explore OpenAI’s chaotic period when Altman…
LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has unveiled a campaign plan addressing several parts of the affordability debate, including property taxes, insurance, health care, higher education and electricity costs. Abbott visited Lubbock on Sept. 4 to promote the plan as recent polling showed the governor’s race tightening. The proposals…
After a couple of years of full-time travel, we decided to plant down some roots in northern New Mexico.We’d gallivanted around the country — north, south, east, and west — and fallen deeply in love with the high desert tucked away in the Rocky Mountains.During our travels, we’d been living…
