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Range Anxiety Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't wasting any time in pulling out of extending one of his car company's key value propositions: its Supercharger network. Earlier this week, news emerged that Musk was conducting yet another round of layoffs, including senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci, alongside her 500-person-strong team. Now, Electrek reports […]

A bizarre new smartphone app called "Vera AI" claims it allows its users to chat with "imaginary friends" and "create your friends or family members," a puzzlingly brazen use of AI tech that doesn't even try to hide the fact that it's looking to replace human connection. A screenshot of the app suggests that it […]

DeepMind cofounder and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman took the stage at Ted 2024 last week to lay out his vision for an AI-driven future. And according to the AI boss, if you really want to grasp how impactful AI might be to the human species, it might be useful to think of AI as […]

Patent Pending Google has become the latest target in the fight to protect copyright from AI data scraping, and this time, the group of artists suing the search behemoth has receipts. Filed in the Northern District of California, the suit brought by photographer Jingna Zhang and illustrators Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson, and Jessica Fink takes […]