The big picture: Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has swiftly embraced TikTok and social media meme culture, building an in-on-the-joke repertoire with a younger generation as the election nears.
OpenAI said Friday it deactivated a cluster of ChatGPT accounts this week that were using the AI chatbot to craft fake news articles and social media comments as part of an Iranian disinformation campaign.
Why it matters: Nation-state adversaries have already shown a vested interest in disrupting the 2024 U.S. elections — and experts fear AI tools like ChatGPT could speed up their ability to craft disinformation.
Ransomware costs have ballooned for victims in 2024 as malicious hackers have targeted higher-value companies more likely to pay a large sum to unlock their systems.
Why it matters: As long as ransomware keeps paying, hackers will keep using this technique.
Iran, not Russia, is proving to be the biggest nation-state threat to the U.S. presidential election in November.
Why it matters: Russia and Iran have grown more brazen and hungrier in their attacks on the U.S. elections, officials say, and the final stretch of the presidential election could see even more chaos.
Walmart and drone delivery partner DroneUp are ending drone delivery in three states to focus on perfecting the airborne package delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Why it matters:Instant drone delivery only makes economic sense if it can be done at scale, and Dallas is emerging as the capital of drone delivery in America.
I'm usually test-driving electric cars, but lately I've been playing with a fun alternative: a clip-on electric motor that converts an ordinary bicycle into an e-bike.
Why it matters: CLIP is billed as a common-sense solution for urban commuters, making it easier for people to switch from driving to bicycling for short trips.
I'm usually test-driving electric cars, but lately I've been playing with a fun alternative: a clip-on electric motor that converts an ordinary bicycle into an e-bike.
Why it matters: CLIP is billed as a common-sense solution for urban commuters, making it easier for people to switch from driving to bicycling for short trips.
A federal judge is actively considering breaking up Google after a landmark ruling last week that the tech giant has illegally abused its search monopoly.
Why it matters: A court-ordered Google breakup would be the U.S.'s most consequential antitrust action in decades — but figuring out how to split up the company could prove daunting.
Misleading, violent and copyright-infringing AI-generated images from a beta version of xAI's Grok-2 are going viral.
Why it matters: Leaders at Google, Meta and Microsoft have all apologized when their bots created problematic images, but "free speech" has overridden other concerns for Elon Musk — who owns xAI and has made its chatbot available to everyone who pays for X.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday plans to propose a federal ban on "corporate price-gouging in the food and grocery industries," plus heightened regulatory scrutiny of food producer and grocery mergers.
The big picture: This comes less than 24 hours after Mars, the closely held maker of Snickers and Skittles, agreed to buy salty snack maker Kellanova for a whopping $35.9 billion.
High school students who use generative AI to prepare for math exams perform worse on tests, where they can't rely on AI, than those who didn't use the tools at all, a new study shows.
Why it matters: A "personal tutor for every student" is one of the rosy scenarios AI optimists paint, but AI-driven learning still has many hurdles in its way.
