Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. When Shanna Johnson was winding ...

A viral story from last year has been making the rounds again, claiming that Gmail automatically opted all users into a program that lets Google train its AI on your private emails and attachments. If ...

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Los Angeles travelers using Metro have a new tech tool to turn to for insight into the system’s safety data. The transit provider has released its Monthly Safety Tracker, an online dashboard showing ...

DoorDash delivery drivers can now add another side gig to their rotation: training AI-powered robots. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...

Firefly custom models analyze your assets to preserve character designs and emulate illustration and photography styles. Firefly custom models analyze your assets to preserve character designs and ...

The generative AI models used in classified environments can answer questions but don't currently learn from the data they see. That could soon change. The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up ...

Pokémon Go creator Niantic is using players' augmented reality data to help train delivery robots. Now rebranded as Niantic Spatial, the company has joined forces with robotic startup Coco to help its ...

In an Oscars that was a two-horse race, locally filmed “Train Dreams” did not make it to the station. Most of the night’s awards were won either by “Sinners” or eventual Best Picture winner “One ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ukraine's four-year war with Russia has made it the world leader in battlefield drone technology. One byproduct of that is that the data it ...

Apple trained an AI model to recognize unseen hand gestures using EMG muscle signals from wearable sensors. The system links muscle activity with hand movement data. This enables more natural gesture ...

Meta Platforms Inc., which recently reached major deals with top chipmakers, still has ambitions for its own custom silicon, including plans to develop processors that can train future artificial ...