Spotify lets you edit your own algorithm with new Taste Profile feature

The feature, announced at SXSW by co-CEO Gustav Söderström, lets Premium listeners see and shape the data model powering their recommendations, starting with a beta rollout in New Zealand For a deca [...]

Is ChatGPT’s New Shopping Research Solving a Problem, or Creating One?

When OpenAI announced its new shopping search capabilities, I took the news with a grain of salt (perhaps the whole shaker). For the past decade, we have watched the slow evolution of traditional sear [...]

Geoffrey Hinton urges researchers to design AI with nurturing instincts to protect humanity

Geoffrey Hinton, often called the "Godfather of AI," is urging researchers to design machines with nurturing instincts to protect humanity as AI systems surpass human intelligence.<br /&g [...]

Elon Musk is tearing xAI down to build it back up. Again.

The AI company he founded three years ago has lost six co-founders, is slashing staff, and trails badly in coding benchmarks. Musk’s remedy: rebuild from scratch, for the second time. In March 2023, [...]

IBM's open source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models are small enough to run locally directly in your browser

In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course — one that values efficiency over enormity, and accessibility over abstraction.The 114-y [...]

Why on Earth would NASA build a nuclear reactor on the Moon?

"Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon" is not a headline I imagined reading before last week. Sure, as a sci-fi loving nerd, I could see a future where nuclear power played a role i [...]

Subscriptions are creeping from software into everything — even your car’s horsepower

The subscription model beloved of software is now creeping into cars.  Volkswagen has become the latest automaker to adopt the pricing structure. The German marque has introduced a monthly subscripti [...]

Uber, Pony.ai, and Rimac’s Verne announce Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service

On-road testing in Croatia’s capital is already underway using Pony.ai’s Gen-7 system on the Arcfox Alpha T5, a Chinese-manufactured robotaxi. Uber intends to invest in Verne. The three companies [...]

A supernatural detective mystery, FMV terror and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. As always, we have a bunch of new games for you to check out this weekend, along with fresh looks at some upcoming projec [...]