Jack Douglas Teixeira, the Air National guardsman accused of leaking highly classified Pentagon documents to the online gaming service Discord, is expected to plead guilty in a Boston court on Monday.
The big picture: Teixeira, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, is accused of leaking materials including revelations about the U.S. government's relations with its adversaries and allies, such as its efforts to gather intelligence on Ukraine's government, Russia and allies Israel and South Korea.
Generative AI tools can not only help you write a speech — they can help you deliver it with confidence.
Why it matters: Two out of three people are terrified of public speaking, and artificial intelligence-powered tools like Yoodli are looking to ease these oratory woes.
Internal communications at OpenAI — including those of its CEO, Sam Altman — are being reviewed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to determine whether the company's investors were misled during last November's boardroom crisis, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Why it matters: OpenAI is now valued at more than $80 billion, and its governance has also attracted the scrutiny of antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe.
Ford electric vehicle owners can now order a free adapter to charge their cars at most Tesla Superchargers.
Why it matters: Supercharger access effectively doubles the number of fast-charging stations available to non-Tesla owners, potentially relieving a big pain point for EV buyers.
Paris-based Mistral — a nine-month-old startup with only a few dozen employees — is corralling enough investment and attention, including a high-profile Microsoft partnership, to put it in the top tier of AI companies globally.
Why it matters: Mistral is much younger than OpenAI, yet the French company's top model already rivals GPT-4's performance in accuracy and common sense reasoning.
Why it matters: Okta provides identity management tools, like multifactor authentication and single sign-on solutions, to a range of organizations, including government agencies, Fortune 500 companies and AI startups.
Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman of the FCC, introduced a proposal on Wednesday that aims to make it more difficult for domestic violence or domestic abuse survivors to be harassed or stalked using internet car systems.
Lightricks, the Israeli startup behind Facetune and Photoleap, announced its most ambitious offering yet. LTX Studio, a visual AI video tool that can generate characters, scenes, storyboards and even entire movies using only text descriptions.
Why it matters: Proponents argue such tools can help democratize the filmmaking process, while some creative professionals worry that generative AI tools will eliminate jobs and hurt the arts.
As artificial intelligence steamrolls ahead, the nation's K-12 school superintendents are largely flummoxed by how they should teach, use and set guidelines around AI — even though they know it's an imperative.
President Biden will sign an executive order Wednesday that aims to stop data brokers and other companies from selling Americans' data to organizations in adversarial foreign countries, including China and Russia.
Why it matters: This is the first time a president has attempted to clamp down on third-party sales and access to the data collected about U.S. citizens by tech, advertising and marketing companies.
Generative AI is raising the curtain on a new era of software breakdowns rooted in the same creative capabilities that make it powerful.
Why it matters: Every novel technology brings bugs, but AI's will be especially thorny and frustrating because they're so different from the ones we're used to.
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