/ The data gathering system AutoRT applies safety guardrails inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. By Amrita Khalid, one of the authors of audio industry newsletter Hot Pod. Khalid has covered tech, surveillance policy, consumer gadgets, and online communities for more than a decade. Share this story Image: Google The DeepMind robotics team… Continue reading Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us
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Perplexity AI raises over $73m from Bezos, Nvidia, others at $520m valuationPerplexity AI raised $25.6m in March last year led by New Enterprise Assoc…
Perplexity AI has raised $73.6 million in its latest funding round from a group of investors including U.S. chip designer Nvidia and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in a deal valuing the artificial intelligence startup at $520 million. The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, the San Francisco, California-based company said on Thursday. Perplexity AI,… Continue reading Perplexity AI raises over $73m from Bezos, Nvidia, others at $520m valuationPerplexity AI raised $25.6m in March last year led by New Enterprise Assoc…
New Mapping Finds the Oceans Are Filled With “Dark Vessels”
We’re only beginning to uncover the truth. Dark Vessels Researchers have exposed an enormous quantity of previously untracked human activity at sea using a combination of satellite imagery, vessel GPS data, and AI. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature by Global Fishing Watch, a nonprofit backed by Google, researchers found… Continue reading New Mapping Finds the Oceans Are Filled With “Dark Vessels”
Semaglutide Patients Regained More Weight Than They’d Lost After Stopping Their Injections
Image by Jaap Arriens / NurPhoto via Getty / Futurism Semaglutide, the active ingredient in the injectable diabetes drug Ozempic and its weight-loss sister prescription Wegovy, seems to have yet another unfortunate side effect: putting back on the weight, and then some, when patients stop taking it. As two women told The Messenger in interviews about… Continue reading Semaglutide Patients Regained More Weight Than They’d Lost After Stopping Their Injections
CEO of Crypto Firm Appears to Be Entirely Fake
The CEO of a crypto Ponzi scheme appears, much like the promises his firm made, to be completely fake. As The Guardian reports, Steven Reece Lewis was put forth with all kinds of bona fides in 2021 when the HyperVerse metaverse platform/crypto fund announced that he would be taking over as its CEO. Per the paper’s investigation,… Continue reading CEO of Crypto Firm Appears to Be Entirely Fake
To Beat Russia, Ukraine Needs a Major Tech Breakthrough
“Just like in the First World War, we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,” Ukrainian general Valerii Zaluzhnyi admitted late last year. “There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.” That blunt assessment from the Ukrainian commander in chief, made in a November interview with The Economist,… Continue reading To Beat Russia, Ukraine Needs a Major Tech Breakthrough
The Man Who Made Robots Dance Now Wants Them to Think for Themselves
Some robots, including from Boston Dynamics, are already doing warehouse work. Do you expect to see that humanoid workforce growing in the coming years? Warehouse work is one of the great applications at the moment because there’s such a need for people. Employers are really frustrated with the difficulty of getting humans and training them… Continue reading The Man Who Made Robots Dance Now Wants Them to Think for Themselves
A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
The purpose of the current trial is to assess the gel’s safety and longevity, not how well it prevents pregnancy. Participants were asked to use a back-up form of birth control while being enrolled in the trial. The gel is designed to dissolve at the end of its lifetime, so the men will be followed… Continue reading A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
Bumper Closes $48M Funding Round
Bumper, a London, UK-based fintech company enabling flexible payments for car repairs, raised $48M in funding. The round, which brought the total amount to $64M, was led by Autotech Ventures, with investment from Shell Ventures, JLR’s InMotion Ventures, Porsche Ventures and Revo Capital. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its growth. Led… Continue reading Bumper Closes $48M Funding Round
Microsoft adds ‘Copilot key’ to keyboards to call up AI chatbotAI PCs could help the personal computer market bounce back after its post-pandemic slum…
Microsoft said it is adding a button to its Windows keyboard that would pull up the tech giant’s Copilot service, in the first change for the device in nearly three decades. The “Copilot key”, announced on Thursday, marks the latest effort by the company, which is investing billions in AI, to incorporate the technology in its… Continue reading Microsoft adds ‘Copilot key’ to keyboards to call up AI chatbotAI PCs could help the personal computer market bounce back after its post-pandemic slum…