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Dating app giant Match Group — which owns apps like Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid — conducted a study to determine how U.S. singles really feel about the relationship between AI and dating. Turns out, people don’t want AI messing with every aspect of human life. Across the industry, dating apps are experimenting with AI. Bumble introduced a dating assistant named Bee, and Tinder is spending so much on AI tools that it’s slowed its hiring process. Meanwhile, Hinge’s CEO stepped down last year to launch a more AI-focused dating app altogether. But according to Match’s survey of 1,000 people aged…
If Amazon Web Services has its way, the cloud giant is going to push even deeper into Nvidia’s market, in what might be one of the biggest challenges to Nvidia’s AI chip dominance we’ve seen so far. Amazon’s AI chief Peter DeSantis told Bloomberg that AWS is in talks to sell its AI chip Trainium to other companies for use in data centers. DeSantis declined to specify which companies could be the buyers of such chips. Such talks about selling chips are in the early stages, the company tells TechCrunch, and stem from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter…
OpenAI is pushing further into its health research as more people turn to ChatGPT for pressing medical questions.More than 230 million people use the tool for health and wellness advice each week, according to OpenAI. That growth is partially thanks to researcher Karan Singhal, who spoke exclusively with Business Insider about the company’s lofty healthcare ambitions.Singhal leads a high-stakes goal: make ChatGPT so good on health that it changes people’s lives for the better, avoids calamity, and sways the skeptics. He wants to aid a shift he already sees underway, in which more patients trust OpenAI’s latest model as a…
New York office workers faced a dilemma on Thursday: Go to work or the historic Knicks parade. Why not both?While crowds swarmed into lower Manhattan for a chance to watch the New York Knicks NBA Championship parade, some workers were able to enjoy the action from the comfort of their office.The parade’s route made working out of a building overlooking Broadway in the financial district the hottest office perk on Thursday. Workers at the Business Insider office look out the window at the parade route. Paul Squire/Business Insider And while some New York office building windows don’t open, many on…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) told grid operators on Thursday to fast track interconnection requests from data centers and other large electricity users. Under the orders, six major grid operators have to show that data centers are “able to connect to the transmission system in a timely and orderly manner.” Data centers will be responsible for paying the costs of the interconnection. Commissioners approved the orders unanimously. FERC also provided an opening to grid tech startups, directing grid operators to consider “alternative transmission technologies.” The commission didn’t name specific technologies, but the directive could include things like solid-state transformers…
When Tony Fadell entered New York City’s 28th Street Subway Station, he did not expect to come face-to-face with an advertisement for a product he designed over 20 years ago. But there it was: a five-by-four-foot poster promoting the iPod Shuffle, luring passersby with the promise of “Zero screen time.” “The first thing was, I thought, ‘Wait a second, did somebody not change the ad?’” Fadell, known as the father of the iPod, told TechCrunch. “For somebody like me who knows that thing intimately, it’s like seeing your kid’s picture.” As Fadell stood in the train station, he was surrounded…
It happened to me: I opened a Google Doc to write an article, and I was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “write with Gemini.” I looked for some button to swipe away the garish AI display, but I could not find it. It made me mad. Now, instead of writing the article I’m supposed to be working on, I am writing about how to get the AI pop-ups off your Google Docs screen, since it took me some time to figure out. You’re welcome. What is this monstrosity? Why won’t it just go away?Image Credits:Screenshot from…
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same. Kē offers a slew of features designed to support users, including personalized fitness plans that cater to users’ existing workout equipment and schedules, as well as nutrition guidance by suggesting meal plans based on the food users have at home. Users have the flexibility to request adjustments…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department on Thursday announced a reduction in interest rates for federal student loans, describing it as part of a plan to make higher education more affordable. With growing numbers of borrowers in default, the Trump administration pitched the temporary, 1% reduction in student loan interest rates as a salve for those struggling with repayment. Education Undersecretary Nicholas Kent said the change is a way of “making student loan repayment easier than ever” and of improving “the overall health of the federal student loan portfolio.”But the change does not apply to all borrowers, and those pursuing…
SpaceX’s post-IPO mega-rally has hit its first slowdown.Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket company, which raised a record $75 billion when it went public last week, had dropped nearly 5% on market close on Wednesday, its first down day since the offering on June 12. The slide continued on Thursday, with the stock down 10% to $172.11. Shares are still up 27% from the IPO price of $135. The drop ended a monster share price rally that had seen SpaceX’s market cap soar to nearly $3 trillion in its first days of trading, eclipsing Amazon as the world’s fifth most valuable…