Character.ai: Young people turning to AI therapist bots

An estimated 260 million packages disappeared in the U.S. last year, according to Safewise, many taken right from the front door area while a camera recorded the theft. As the holiday season kicks into high gear, package thefts are a top concern, and one shipping company is using artificial intelligence to combat porch pirates. Nearly…

Supermarkets and other retailers are increasing switching to AI-powered digital price displays.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The iPhone was lying on the ground, in airplane mode, with its battery half full. The screen, fully intact, showed a $70 receipt for two checked bags on Alaska Airlines flight 1282. A social media user by the name Sean Bates found the device while…

OpenAI is offering paltry payouts of as little as $1 million to media outlets in exchange for using their news articles to train the models that power ChatGPT — and the negotiations are playing out even as the company faces a major copyright infringement lawsuit from the New York Times. The proposed licensing fees of…

He was hooked. “Sci-fi is kinda like my church,” said Smith, who is now age 47 and living in Philadelphia. “It’s spiritual and very much connected to who I am as a Black, queer person.” The problem with his church, however, is that there isn’t very much Black (or queer) representation. Mainstream sci-fi features Black…

Google will lay off several hundred workers across multiple parts of its business as the search giant shifts more resources toward the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the company confirmed Thursday. A few hundred employees were cut from Google’s core engineering team, the company said. Google also cut hundreds of workers from the division working…