Elon Musk’s publicity stunt to rebrand Twitter with a strobe-lit “X” atop the company’s San Francisco headquarters has drawn the wrath of neighbors — and the city may pull the plug on the installation. The billionaire touted the display in a 19-second video of the pulsating logo lighting up the night sky after the company erected the metal structure on …
Read More »Amazon touts delivery speeds but investors eye sales, cloud growth
Amazon on Monday said it hit record delivery speeds in the US in the second-quarter while continuing to cut costs, as investors look for signs of growth in its e-commerce business when it reports its Q2 financials on Thursday. Investors tuning into the company’s earnings call this week also want updates on the tech giant’s cloud business, ad revenue growth and signals …
Read More »X reorganizes trust and safety team under Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino
X owner Elon Musk and Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino will both oversee the trust and safety team at the company formerly known as Twitter, the social media concern said Monday. X’s product and engineering team will report to Musk, while Yaccarino will oversee all other divisions, including human resources, legal, finance, sales and operations, X said. The trust and safety team, which is …
Read More »ChatGPT graduated from high school to college level IQ: study
Call it pomp and circuitry. New research out of UCLA finds that ChatGPT “performs about as well as college undergraduates” when it comes to reasoning questions that often show up on standardized testing. The language learning model has proverbially graduated to higher education since late 2022 when its “clean” writing style was described to The Post as that of “a …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg had falling out over the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg’s longtime lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg “was just done” with the Meta boss after he made the decision to pivot the company away from its bread-and-butter social media-based business and toward the metaverse, according to a report. Sandberg, the “Lean In” author and former Google executive, served as Zuckerberg’s No. 2 at Facebook parent company Meta for 14 years before …
Read More »Elon Musk’s X threatens to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has threatened to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased last year by Elon Musk. An attorney representing the social media site wrote to the Center for Countering Digital Hate on July 20 threatening legal action over …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg seen at Taylor Swift concert wearing face gems
Mark Zuckerberg’s more than just a tech mogul — he’s also a “Bejeweled” Swiftie. The 39-year-old Meta boss was pictured with gemstones in a heart shape around his eye while attending Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” in Santa Clara, Calif., over the weekend with his wife, Priscilla Chan, and three daughters. “Life of a girl dad,” Zuckerberg wrote in his Instagram …
Read More »Restaurant owner hires robot to help servers; diners divided
Diners watched, bemused, as Plato approached their table. The three-and-a-half-foot-tall robot spun and paused, presenting them with their lunch. No one moved, unsure of what would come next, until a man in cowboy boots reached out and took his hamburger before passing another plate to his companions. Then Plato rolled away, back to The Cazadero’s kitchen. “How was the experience?” …
Read More »The phubbing relationship trend is ruining marriages
What the actual phub??? While gazing at the stars and soaking in the beauty of the late summer’s night sky in September 2019, Heather Cox looked adoringly over at her husband, Wes, hoping to romantically lock eyes beneath the blanket of twinkling celestial bodies. But rather than sharing in the idyllic moment, an entranced Wes was busy gawking at a …
Read More »Paralyzed NY man can move and feel again — thanks to AI
Thank artificial intelligence for what doctors are declaring a modern medical “miracle.” A Long Island man who was paralyzed in a diving accident has regained motion and feeling in his body after a breakthrough, machine learning-based surgery that successfully “connected a computer to his brain” through microelectrode implants. Now, the successful case of Massapequa’s Keith Thomas, 45, is being heralded …
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