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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s attorney general on Tuesday opened a rare criminal investigation into OpenAI’s ChatGPT over whether the artificial intelligence app offered advice to a gunman who killed two people and wounded six others last year at Florida State University.Attorney General James Uthmeier said that prosecutors had done an initial review of chat logs between ChatGPT and the gunman, Phoenix Ikner, to determine if the AI app aided, abetted or advised the commission of a crime.Prosecutors believe the chatbot advised Ikner on what type of gun and ammunition to use, whether a gun would be useful at short…
NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell are fueling the University of Texas at Austin’s medical research ambitions with a $750 million gift that promises to improve patient care through artificial intelligence and increase health care options for the booming state capital.The UT Dell Medical Center, announced Tuesday, is projected to open in 2030 as the crown jewel of a new 300-plus-acre advanced research campus. The university expects to break ground this fall on what school leaders are calling the country’s first “AI-native” hospital. The donation makes the couple the first University of Texas donors to give more…
Today’s AI music startups, like Suno and Udio, offer technology that leverage artifical intelligence for music generation. But a new company, GRAI, believes that most people don’t want to use AI to generate music from scratch — they’d rather do other things like remix tunes, share them with friends, or play around with tracks by doing things like changing a track’s style, just for fun. Of course, whether or not an artist wants anyone to play around with their tracks, or to what extent, is something they should get to decide. Music lab GRAI, now backed by a $9 million…
Tim Cook is on his way out, and the internet is doing what it does best: posting memes.Cook announced on Monday that he will transition out as the CEO of Apple, with John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, set to take the top job in September.Cook, who has led the company for 15 years, said in a letter that he felt a “gratitude I cannot put into words.”The internet responded in kind with some good jokes. Below, we’ve included some of our favorites — several of which nod to Donald Trump mistakenly calling Cook “Tim Apple.” If…
The new Apple CEO doesn’t fall far from the tree. Loading audio narration… (Sorry, I had to. Low-hanging fruit and all.)Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple’s CEO this September, making way for longtime executive John Ternus. Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering has spent 25 years at the company. More on Ternus here.We’ll get to Ternus in a minute, but first, let’s look back at Cook’s incredible run. Read his farewell letter here.Apple’s CEO since 2011, Cook had the impossible task of filling Steve Jobs’ shoes. He not only stepped up to the challenge but, in many ways,…
Tim Cook took on the daunting task of succeeding Steve Jobs as Apple CEO — and led the tech giant to even greater heights. Loading audio narration… Vanishingly few people would have dared follow Jobs, Apple’s iconic cofounder who reshaped how the world works with revolutionary devices such as the iPod and iPhone.Yet Cook pulled off what few thought possible: taking Apple to the next level. During his nearly 15 years in charge, Apple has roughly quadrupled its annual net sales and net income to over $400 billion and $100 billion respectively, propelling its market capitalization from around $350 billion…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maneesha Panja, a 30-year-old product leader at a small startup living in Brooklyn, New York. This story has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I grew up in the ’90s and early 2000s. Many of my early memories of technology are associated with discovery and delight. I remember getting my first iPod — that was such a big deal for me.As I got older, my relationship with technology grew more complex. At first, social media was great because I could keep up with my high school friends while…
Tim Cook may not have Steve Jobs’ reputation as a product visionary, but he has overseen the launch of some of Apple’s most defining devices.Cook’s tenure as Apple’s CEO is set to end in September, when senior vice president of hardware engineering John Ternus takes over. Cook will remain as executive chairman.Under Cook, Apple has built a tightly integrated ecosystem of products and services that shapes how consumers engage with the brand. While the iPhone — launched under Jobs — remains its main revenue driver, an expanded services lineup that Cook shepherded, along with devices like the Apple Watch, has…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ahmed Ahres, a 27-year-old Product & GTM at a tech startup based in San Francisco. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I hold the belief that if you want to become the best in the world at something, you’ve got to surround yourself with the best in the world. For technology, the place to do that is San Francisco.When I moved here from London a year ago, I came on an O-1 visa, a pathway for foreigners with exceptional abilities to live and work in the US.…
Gen Z founders have launched into the business world with a bang, and legacy brands have been trying to keep up ever since. Just ask Eve Halimi.Halimi and Anam Lakhani created Alinea, an investment platform designed for the next generation of wealth-builders, in 2021. The pair began building Alinea after interning on Wall Street, where one thing became crystal clear: the rich were getting richer.”The richer were getting richer through the stock market, and people who didn’t have the means weren’t learning about it elsewhere,” Halimi, 29, told Business Insider. “We saw this really big gap.”For the uninitiated, learning to…