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Four ways nontechnical leaders can foster a culture that values ethical AI.

These common approaches can strain teams and lead to misaligned expectations.

Eureka’s combo robot both vacuums and mops your floors. It does a fine job vacuuming, but it’s a sloppy mopper, and its home-mapping skills are mediocre.

The two companies have announced a bundle that combines, Disney+, Hulu, and Max. This is maybe not the response to #DontStreamOnMax that fans wanted.

Counterpoint Research: Smartphone shipments in India grew 8% in Q1, 2024; Vivo leads for the first time with 19.2% of market share, followed by Xiaomi with 18.8%, and Samsung 17.5%  —  – For the first time ever, vivo led the market by volume in a single quarter.  — Samsung led the market by value after […]

Kevin Roose / New York Times: An account of chatting with 18 AI companions for a month: AI friendship is hollow, but chatbots could enhance human socializing if developed responsibly  —  Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions.  They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very […]

Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph: Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform by May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds  —  The plan administrator will continue to use Coinbase for upcoming distribution rounds, potentially involving recovered funds from FTX.

Scientists often label cells with proteins that glow, allowing them to track the growth of a tumor, or measure changes in gene expression that occur as cells differentiate. While this technique works well in cells and some tissues of the body, it has been difficult to apply this technique to image structures deep within the brain, […]

Imagine a slime-like robot that can seamlessly change its shape to squeeze through narrow spaces, which could be deployed inside the human body to remove an unwanted item. While such a robot does not yet exist outside a laboratory, researchers are working to develop reconfigurable soft robots for applications in health care, wearable devices, and […]

Ashutosh Kumar is a classically trained materials engineer. Having grown up with a passion for making things, he has explored steel design and studied stress fractures in alloys. Throughout Kumar’s education, however, he was also drawn to biology and medicine. When he was accepted into an undergraduate metallurgical engineering and materials science program at Indian […]

Let It Be, Poor Things, and Taylor Swift: The Era’s Tour (Taylor’s Version) are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Disney+ this month.

Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to launch its mobile game store in July on the web, first with its own games including Candy Crush Saga, and later open it to other publishers  —  The browser-based store will debut with Microsoft’s own games, offering discounts on in-game items associated with titles like Candy Crush Saga.

Neuralink experienced a mechanical issue with its first human brain-computer interface implant. Its novel design may make it more prone to failure.

Black Twitter has been a cultural engine for well over a decade. It could also disappear at any time.

Emily Bary / MarketWatch: Unity reports Q1 revenue down 8% YoY to $460M, vs. $433M est., a $291M net loss, including $212M of restructuring costs, compared with a $254M loss in Q1 2023  —  Matt Bromberg, previously Zynga’s chief operating officer, will take over as Unity’s CEO later in May

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Instant payment company TabaPay pulls out of its $9.7M deal to buy the assets of banking-as-a-service startup Synapse amid infighting among fintech players  —  TabaPay has abandoned its plans to purchase the assets of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse, TabaPay confirmed to TechCrunch today.

MIT’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) Master’s Program, housed within the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) at the Institute’s School of Engineering, has been named top master’s program for supply chain management for 2024 by three leading global rankings institutions: QS World University Rankings, Eduniversal, and Supply Chain Digital. QS World University Rankings, recognized […]

Done right, it should serve the long-term interest of companies and customers alike.

David Lanning, MIT professor emeritus of nuclear science and engineering and a key contributor to the MIT Reactor project, passed away on April 26 at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, at the age of 96. Born in Baker, Oregon, on March 30, 1928, Lanning graduated in 1951 from the University of Oregon with a […]

Don’t wait until the kids are gone to plan for what’s next.

How to strike a balance between enforcing company mandates and supporting the needs of your team.

WIRED spoke to student journalists across the country about how they’re contending with the overwhelming amount of disinformation in the wake of pro-Palestinian protests.

Dynisma’s $2 million rig is state of the art. Just ask Ferrari, which has one for its F1 team. Now a consumer model is in development, we decided to test the ultimate driving simulator.

This week, the writer, director, and executive producers of the new documentary series Black Twitter: A People’s History tell us how they brought the community’s vibrancy to the small screen.

Emily Chang / Bloomberg: An interview with Sundar Pichai on playing the long game on AI, how Gemini image generation “got it wrong”, AI search, the US DOJ lawsuits, layoffs, and more  —  In this episode of The Circuit with Emily Chang, the Alphabet CEO explains how he’s in it for the long haul—and won’t […]

Bloomberg: Sources: Alphabet has been progressing in talks to acquire marketing software provider HubSpot and has discussed terms; HubSpot has a $30B market cap  —  Google parent Alphabet Inc. has been progressing in talks to acquire marketing software provider HubSpot Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

A new robotic hand can withstand being smashed by pistons or walloped with a hammer. It was designed to survive the trial-and-error interactions required to train AI robots

Wall Street Journal: Sources: French AI startup Mistral AI is nearing a deal to raise ~$600M at a $6B valuation, after raising $500M at a $2B+ valuation in December 2023  —  Mistral AI is nearing a deal to raise funds at a $6 billion valuation—nearly tripling its level from six months ago.

Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School have developed a potential new treatment for alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss and affects people of all ages, including children. For most patients with this type of hair loss, there is no effective treatment. The team developed a microneedle patch […]

An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program’s database that investigators have repeatedly misused.

OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.

A Kremlin-aligned network called Doppelganger has used faked versions of real news sites to push both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel disinformation.

Dade Hayes / Deadline: Disney and WBD announce a streaming bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max, with ad-supported and ad-free plans, beginning this summer in the US, with pricing to come  —  Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are breaking ground in streaming with a bundled offering featuring Disney+, Hulu and Max in a single package.

Dallin Grimm / Tom’s Hardware: Some Stack Overflow users say their account was suspended after they attempted to alter their posts in protest of its OpenAI partnership to supply data for AI  —  Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.  —  Stack Overflow, a legendary internet forum for programmers and developers …

Pratik Jain / Reuters: US hospital operator Ascension reports disruptions to its clinical operations due to a suspected cybersecurity incident and engages Mandiant to help investigate  —  Hospital operator Ascension reported disruptions to its clinical operations on Wednesday due to a suspected cybersecurity incident …

The latest version of the AlphaFold AI can help biologists predict how proteins interact with each other and other molecules, which is a boon to pharmaceutical research

When scientists look for an earthquake’s cause, their search often starts underground. As centuries of seismic studies have made clear, it’s the collision of tectonic plates and the movement of subsurface faults and fissures that primarily trigger a temblor. But MIT scientists have now found that certain weather events may also play a role in […]

Lean into being a facilitator — not an expert.

Their corporate culture often focuses on unconventional solutions to hard business problems.

Surprising insights from EY’s survey of its U.S. hybrid, full in-person, and fully remote employees.

Despite Cyber Army of Russia’s claims of swaying US “minds and hearts,” experts say the cyber sabotage group appears to be hyping its hacking for a domestic audience.

The cold-brew feature is a letdown, but this De’Longhi makes great espresso—if you help it out a little.

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $1.9B, GMV up 23% YoY to $60.9B, and expects gross margins to drop by ~50 basis points YoY in Q2; SHOP plummets 18%+  —  The company posted a loss of $273 million, after a profit of $68 million a year earlier.  The loss […]

Manya Saini / Reuters: Data collaboration software maker Atlan raised a $105M Series C led by Singapore’s GIC and Meritech at a $750M valuation, taking its total funding to $206M  —  Atlan said on Wednesday it had raised $105 million in a funding round led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC …

Bloomberg: Chinese government data: foreign-branded smartphones shipments, most of which are iPhones, grew 12% YoY to 3.75M in March, reversing a 37% drop in early 2024  —  – The performance marks an improvement from the start of 2024  — The bounce emerged after Apple and its resellers cut prices

Tesla’s gigafactory in Germany has temporarily paused production as protests ramp up.

Apple’s latest stylus will only work with its newest iPads. The long-running second-gen Apple Pencil—which the company still sells—will not.

The ACP provided a broadband subsidy for millions of Americans. Now Congress has a plan to reinstate it.

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: The US revokes some licenses that allow companies to ship chips and other goods to Huawei; sources say the decision affects Intel and Qualcomm  —  Move marks latest effort by Biden administration to target the country’s tech sector  —  The Biden administration has revoked export licences …

Mike Murphy / IBM Research: IBM open sources its Granite code models for code generative tasks, trained on 116 programming languages, with models ranging in size from 3B to 34B parameters  —  Release  —  IBM is releasing a family of Granite code models to the open-source community.  The aim is to make coding as easy […]