Artificial Intelligence

The web3 startup Nillion, which aims to create a decentralized network that is not based on a blockchain, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the firm exclusively revealed to TechCrunch. According to Andrew Yeoh, the company’s founding chief marketing officer, “Nillion is a deep technical infrastructure project.” …

Community Notes are now accessible worldwide, according to a tweet from Twitter over the weekend. The social media giant uses a mechanism called Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, to crowdsource fact-checking. Users can use the tool to contextualize tweets, and it uses an open-source methodology to disprove false information. …

It’s fun to imagine what Henry VIII or Tutankhamun would look like today if you could drag them into the present, but what about the reverse? What would it appear like if you traveled back in time and confronted them there? In partnership with AI image generation experts Astria, online …

On November 23, Twitter declared that it would no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy and would not take any action against any tweets that did so. Due to the inherent health dangers, the site has previously taken a strong anti-misinformation stance. However, under new guidance from Elon Musk, Twitter …

One aerospace engineer and physics professor claims that space elevators—yes, actual elevators that will lift humans into orbit—might not be as far off from reality as we think. His theories suggest that such a far-fetched idea might become a reality soon; in his wise words: “We’ll know we’re near when …

According to Elon Musk, his brain device Neuralink is ready for human use and may start human testing as soon as it receives US Food and Drug Administration certification (FDA). Musk made a number of audacious assertions about the potential of the implant during a “show and tell” of the …

Researchers at Disney Research Studios have created a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can subtly age or reverse the aging of persons in video footage. The tool, known as the face re-aging network (FRAN), will be able to make actors appear older or younger for movie scenes set in …

Everyone who opposes allowing the police to use robots to kill humans has good news: After receiving criticism after passing it by vote last week, San Francisco has put a halt to its plan to permit just that. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a policy last week that …

The U.S. government has already come to rely heavily on SpaceX’s launch services, but the company is now diving headfirst into a pool it had previously only dabbled in. A brand-new division of SpaceX called Starshield will offer customized satellite designs and secure communications to “government entities” (think three-letter agencies). …

With its avatar-generating AI, Lensa has been climbing the app store hit lists and turning off artists. It turns out that using the platform to create non-consensual soft porn is possible and far too simple, which is another reason to fly the flag. The Lensa app has produced photo sets …