Updating to iOS 18 ahead of Hurricane Milton, could help iPhone users stay in touch with friends and family via satellite messaging when there is no cellular and Wi-Fi coverage.
Why it matters: Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on Wednesday and threatens to impact highly populated areas of the Florida coast.
OpenAI has struck a content partnership deal with Hearst, one of the largest newspaper and magazine holding groups in the country, the companies said Tuesday.
Why it matters: OpenAI has already struck similar deals with Hearst's magazine rivals Condé Nast and Dotdash Meredith.
More Americans are flocking to TikTok for news and information, but they aren't necessarily following media organizations or journalists on the platform, according to a new report from Pew Research Center.
Why it matters: Instead, they are relying on creators, entertainers and influencers to deliver the news — even as mis-and-disinformation campaigns continue.
Adobe is readying a web tool that aims to allow artists and other creators to easily authenticate digital works as their own.
Why it matters: The tool, which enters private beta today and will be made more broadly available next year, is part of Adobe's broader strategy to help authenticate digital content by showing how it was captured or created and indicating any changes made using AI.
AI, which has often been charged with gender bias, is getting put to work to help provide more equitable care for women.
The big picture: Lisa Shah's interest in AI started purely as a means to an end. As a physician and chief medical officer at Twin Health, a metabolic care startup based in Mountain View, California,Shah is mainly concerned with getting to the root cause of chronic metabolic disease.
Silicon Valley is increasingly determining who gets elected and who doesn't.
Why it matters: While Big Tech companies learned the value of lobbying in the wake of the Microsoft antitrust trial in the 1990s, it's only much more recently that they've started trying to influence the outcome of elections.
The big picture: A slew ofconspiracy theories rapidly spread online in the wake of the storm — which left more than 200 people dead across six states — about aid to hard-hit communities and employees on the ground.
X owner Elon Musk seized the @America username on the platform, using the account to advocate for former President Donald Trump against Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Why it matters: Musk is using his social media platform to amplify right-wing views and is openly admitting his rightward shift to over 200 million followers ahead of the November election.
Chinese tech company Tencent and Ubisoft's founding Guillemot family are weighing a take-private buyout of the French video game maker, whose shares are down more than 40% this year, as first reported by Bloomberg and quasi-confirmed by the company.
The big picture: Many of Ubisoft's problems are self-inflicted, including a possible class action lawsuit over user privacy issues, but those have been exacerbated by online criticism — including by Elon Musk — that the company's next Assassin's Creed game is too "woke" because it its lead characters include a Black samurai.
Humans are not greatat detecting AI-generated text, images and video right now, and as AI models improve, detection will only get harder.
Why it matters: If we can't separate AI-made content from human-created material, governments and businesses will find themselves increasingly vulnerable to new kinds of attacks — both narrowly targeted operations and broader misinformation offensives.
