How Google is using AI to reduce traffic and emissions

Sequoia Capital wants you to know that it was “deliberately misled and lied to” by convicted cryptocurrency scam artist Sam Bankman-Fried during the discussions that led to its $213.5-million investment in Bankman-Fried’s firm, FTX, last year. That’s an extraordinary admission, given that Sequoia is one of Silicon Valley’s oldest and largest venture investing firms, with…

Technology 28 November 2023, 5:05 am 1 minute Reuters was first to report Meta Platforms’ (META.O) paid no-ads subscription service launched in Europe this month faced one of its biggest tests as advocacy group NOYB on Tuesday filed a complaint with an Austrian regulator, saying that it amounted to paying a fee to ensure privacy. …

FreedomGPT, the newest kid on the AI chatbot block, looks and feels almost exactly like ChatGPT. But there’s a crucial difference: Its makers claim that it will answer any question free of censorship.  The program, which was created by Age of AI, an Austin-based AI venture capital firm, and has been publicly available for just…

Of the over 600 Chuck E. Cheese locations worldwide, fewer than 50 restaurants still have the quarter-century–old “Studio C” layout of animatronics that uses these floppy disks. Other restaurants have a version of the show that uses contemporary tech, while some have no animatronics at all. (Ars Technica has a story about Chuck E. Cheese’s…

Microsoft, Google integrate AI into products Microsoft, Google integrating more AI into products 03:20 Microsoft is adding an artificial intelligence button to its Windows keyboards in a move that marks the company’s first significant keyboard change in nearly three decades.  The button — called the Copilot key — will launch Microsoft’s AI chatbot, the company’s…