Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its AI-powered transcription tool Whisper as having “human-level robustness and accuracy.” But Whisper has one major flaw: It’s prone to creating chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the made-up lyrics … Read more
Nvidia dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Friday, after a record rise in shares powered by voracious demand for its new supercomputer AI chips. Nvidia’s stock market value briefly reached $3.53 trillion, while Apple’s was $3.52 trillion, according to data from LSEG. In June, Nvidia briefly became the world’s most valuable company, … Read more
Google faces an investigation by the Missouri Attorney General’s office for allegedly “manipulating search results” and showing anti-conservative bias ahead of the 2024 election. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said he will issue the subpoena to “get to the bottom of what appears to be election interference by Google,” a spokesman for the Republican told … Read more
Costco’s rollout of membership card scanners at the front of its US stores is still in its infancy, but the move is already paying off big for the wholesale club. Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a note this week that Costco’s warehouses are seeing similarly low double-digit increases in membership counts after implementing the scanners, … Read more
It’s a literal crap shoot. A Texas startup called Throne is making waves in scatology circles after inventing a camera that attaches to your toilet and takes pictures of your poop. “Throne uses a bottom-facing camera that securely captures video during every bathroom visit,” the Austin-based tech firm writes while describing the badass camera, simply … Read more
Researchers for a California start-up claim they achieved the first communication between two people while dreaming, in what they called a “historic milestone” that “could open up new dimensions.” REMspace, a neurotech company based in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on lucid dreaming and sleep enhancement, shared that they have now twice had “two … Read more
Former vice presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan allegedly offered a reporter for The Washington Post $500,000 in exchange for the names of sources who leaked information about her, according to the paper. Shanahan, a 39-year-old San Francisco Bay Area native and environmental attorney, was tipped off in June that The Washington Post was working on a … Read more
Tesla’s third-quarter net income rose 17.3% from a year earlier, as quarterly sales of its electric vehicles rose for the first time this year. The Austin, Texas, company said Wednesday it made $2.17 billion from July to September, up from the $1.85 billion profit it posted in the same period in 2023. The gain came … Read more
Pig slaughter scams are getting more sophisticated – and more expensive – by the day. A report found that criminals defrauded about $75 trillion from the victims. And just recently, a criminal organization in Asia was brought down, adding another $46 million to that figure. Win an iPhone 16 Pro with Apple Intelligence ($999 value). … Read more
Meta has suspended several accounts that monitored the private jet flights of celebrities and tech moguls, including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk among others. Jack Sweeney, the Florida-based college student who was fired from X by Musk for managing an account that tracked flights on the billionaire’s private jet, announced that … Read more