Telly, a company started by Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin, on Monday announced it’s offering 500,000 55-inch 4K TVs free to the public as part of a business model that has advertisers pick up the tab for a consumer’s entertainment upgrade. At the center of the model, which has been in the works for two…
A new generation of clickbait websites populated with content written by AI software is on the way, according to a report released Monday by researchers at NewsGuard, a provider of news and information website ratings. The report identified 49 websites in seven languages that appear to be entirely or mostly generated by artificial intelligence language…
Social media fueled the bank run on the Silicon Valley Bank, a run that sent shock waves throughout the U.S. banking industry, according to a 53-page report released last week by a group of university professors. In their study, the boffins used Twitter data to show that the failure of SVB was preceded by a…
Smart home gadgets do more than simply turn your lights on and off or play your favorite music when you wake up. They can also help you save energy by telling you how much power you’re consuming and how you’re consuming it. Smart home devices can give you the information you need to make wise…
Google opened up its ChatGPT competitor Bard to the public in the United States and the United Kingdom Tuesday, although access will require getting on a waitlist. “Today we’re starting to open access to Bard, an early experiment that lets you collaborate with generative AI,” Google Vice President for Product Sissie Hsiao and Vice President…
Less than a week after it imposed search limits on the AI version of its Bing search engine, Microsoft is raising those limits. In the wake of some embarrassing reports of erratic behavior by the new Bing, Microsoft decided last Friday to limit a user’s daily usage to five chat “turns” per session and 50…
Microsoft last week announced it is putting ChatGPT in its Bing search engine and that it would only work through its new Edge browser. AI in general, and generative AI in particular, are game changers because they are capable of doing not only more for you, but they can be made to interact with you…
Microsoft may have ushered in a paradigm shift Tuesday with the release of new versions of its search engine, Bing, and web browser, Edge — both now powered by artificial intelligence. The new offerings, available in preview at Bing.com, combine browsing and chat into a unified experience that improves both tasks. When searching, for example,…
The most popular search engine on the internet may be headed for some rough sailing in the next one or two years, according to the creator of Gmail. During that time frame, artificial intelligence will eliminate the need for search engine result pages, which is where Google makes most of its money, and even if…
Meta is taking to court a law enforcement intelligence company for gathering data about users of its Facebook and Instagram properties. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California, alleges that Voyager Labs, an international scraping and surveillance service, improperly collected data from those properties through fake accounts, which is a violation of the…
