Technology

Elon Musk said he canceled a Ukrainian military strike on Russia by refusing to use Starlink. The billionaire claims the decision was made to avoid being “complicit in a major act of war,” but it raises serious questions about oligarchs’ military roles. CNN reported it, citing Walter Isaacson’s upcoming Musk …

Today, Relativity Space announced it would lease a historic first-stage test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center to advance Terran R launch vehicle development. NASA will lease the A-2 Test Stand to Relativity for seven years for $2.76 million. The company can renew the lease for 10 years. The investment …

Artists will be among the many groups affected by AI in the coming years, but not everyone. A group of artists wrote an open letter to Congress arguing that generative AI isn’t bad and that the creative community should be involved in regulating and defining the technology. The full letter …

The U.K. will rejoin the EU’s top science R&D funding program after a long absence due to Brexit. The European Commission (EC) and the U.K. called the news a “landmark moment” for scientific collaboration between the two countries, although they did not mention their two-year-old alliance. Horizon Europe, a seven-year …

IBM unveiled new generative AI models and capabilities on its Watsonx data science platform this week to stay relevant in the highly competitive AI field. The Granite series models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and ChatGPT, can summarize, analyze, and generate text. IBM supplied few specifics regarding Granite, making it impossible to …

YouTube for TV customers should expect fewer but longer adverts as Google tests a new method. The company is testing this ad style to improve long-form content viewing, similar to a TV commercial break. YouTube is also aiming to improve the TV ad timer to reflect the remaining ad break …

OpenAI announced today that November 6 will be its first developer conference. In a blog post, OpenAI said it would debut “new tools and exchange ideas” at the one-day OpenAI DevDay event, which will include a keynote lecture and breakout sessions led by technical staff. In April, OpenAI CEO Sam …

Google Creative Lab, Google’s tech and culture incubator, hired Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose out of college to launch the AI Test Kitchen, Teachable Machine, and Google Pixel Buds Pro in three and a half years. In early 2020, their team built over 50 prototypes integrating Google’s LaMDA large language …

China has banned central government officials from using iPhones at work as its relationship with the U.S. deteriorates. The Wall Street Journal reported the move, which could hurt Apple’s reputation in its second-largest market. According to the report, government employees are also asked not to bring foreign devices to work. …

The EU has identified six tech giants whose market power it hopes to reduce by applying proactive, pro-competition rules on how they can operate “core platform services”. Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft are the “gatekeepers”. The Digital Markets Act has designated 22 core platform services operated by the …