Meta is gradually releasing facial recognition technology across Facebook and Instagram to help users locked out of their accounts and to spot scam ads that improperly use a celebrity's image.
Why it matters: This is the first major expansion of Meta's facial recognition system since its 2021 rollback.
Legal experts aresounding off on tech billionaireElon Musk's million-dollar giveaways to voters in Pennsylvania.
Why it matters: Musk, the world's richest man, has pledged to give $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states who sign a petition launched by his pro-Trump political action committee supporting free speech and the right to own firearms.
Demis Hassabis — co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and one of the world's top AI pioneers — says the technology's coming power has been clear for so long that he's amazed the rest of the world took so long to catch on.
"I've been thinking about this for decades. It was so obvious to me this was the biggest thing," Hassabis, 48, told Axios in a virtual interview from London, where DeepMind is based.
"Obviously I didn't know it could be done in my lifetime. ... Even 15 years ago when we started DeepMind, still nobody was working on it, really."
While some are eager to declare the era of autonomous agents upon us, the reality is a bit more complicated — and that's probably a good thing.
Why it matters: Giving autonomy to generative AI tools opens up a range of tantalizing possibilities for increased productivity, but also vastly increases the potential of catastrophic risk.
Former President Trump is deep in his dark MAGA era as he delivers an unorthodox closing message in an unprecedented election cycle.
Yes, but: While Democrats hammer Trump on his recent vulgar and sometimes violent rhetoric, House Speaker Mike Johnson brushed the comments aside Sunday as typical hyperbole.
Here's what you may have missed when newsmakers hit the airwaves this Sunday, October 20.
