Slack sees the future:
Imagine if every time you hop into a channel, you’ll be able to get up to speed on unread Slack messages in one click — whether you’re jumping in midway through a project or catching up from being out of the office. In the …

America’s consumer-protecting federal agency has a division overseeing advertising practices. Its web site includes a “business guidance” section with “advice on complying with FTC law,” and this week one of the agency’s attorney’s warned that the FTC …

An anonymous reader shared this report from NBC News:

Alexej Savreux, a 34-year-old in Kansas City, says he’s done all kinds of work over the years. He’s made fast-food sandwiches. He’s been a custodian and a junk-hauler. And he’s done technical sound…

The Today show’s food reporter delivers a strange report on a viral AI-generated ad “for an imaginary pizza place called ‘Pepperoni Hug Spot’.”

Everything looks slightly … off. Generated by AI, the audience is reminded constantly through the uncann…

This year’s Kentucky Derby was won by a 15-to-1 longshot named Mage, reports sports magazine the Athletic. It was only the horse’s third race — but the story gets even stranger:
Mage is owned by a collective of horse racing fans that doesn’t foll…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that the company no longer trains its AI large-language models such as GPT with paying customer data. “Customers clearly want us not to train on their data, so we’ve changed our plans: We will not do that,” Altman told C…

AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems along the lines of GitHub’s Copilot. From a report: Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaC…

The mania for artificial intelligence is showing no sign of letting up in corporate America, with references to AI and related terms during calls with investors more than doubling from a year ago. From a report: Companies are scrambling to show they’re…

While the systemic brutality used by Colombian police to quell national protests in 2021 was real and is well documented, photos recently used by Amnesty International to highlight the issue were not. The international human rights advocacy group has c…

The White House on Thursday announced its first new initiatives aimed at taming the risks of artificial intelligence since a boom in A.I.-powered chatbots has prompted growing calls to regulate the technology. From a report: The National Science Founda…