Cheap, Affordable E-Reader Just Released

A new ebook reader, the Xteink X4 Pro, has been released. It’s smaller and cheaper than previous Xteink models, along with new buttons and features.The most exciting new features are a light so you can read in the dark, and a button that lets the user swiftly return to the home screen. However, the X4 […]

AI May Save Nature

Flox Intelligence is using AI to help prevent animal collisions. They’re developing cameras mounted on posts and trees to detect animal movement, which also emit sounds to scare away animals from railroads, airports and roads. The system learns from experience and varies sounds to make sure animals don’t get used to the noises. Technology will […]

New York Sues TikTok for Experimenting on Children

Tiktok experimented with a placebo feature that would remove harmful content for young users. New York’s AG Letitia James sued Tiktok over these new allegations. Over a dozen lawsuits against Tiktok allege that it addicts minors and misleads users about safety. The lawsuit claims that Tiktok conducted other experiments, withholding safety features from millions of […]

19 Year Old’s Newest AI Startup Makes Millions

A new AI startup founded by Zach Yadegari,19, is launching a new AI agent, Persona, that can be integrated into a wearable band or as an app in your phone. Yadegari has said his company will protect user privacy as it won’t sell data and will allow users to delete their data if they wish […]

Google Releases Limited AI Detector

Google has just released SynthID to the public, a free online tool to identify AI generated content. You can upload any video, image, or audio file and detect if it was made by AI, with a catch. It can only detect AI generated content that was embedded with a watermark to identify itself, and the […]

Denmark Temporarily Bans AI Glasses

Norway has proposed a temporary ban on Meta’s AI glasses due to privacy concerns The ban will apply at parks, beaches, and schools. Meta’s glasses have gained a bad reputation as some users record people without their consent. Meta’s CTO has insisted that bad actors only make up a minority of their users, but both […]

New AI Agent Startup Says They Are More Trustworthy

Shivani Poddar, formerly of Google’s Deepmind, released a new event and travel planning agent, Fo. This is one of a flurry of AI agents designed to function as a personal assistant, requiring greater degrees of personal information from their users. Shivani’s startup, Wajo, claims that Fo has two advantages over its competitors. Firstly, Fo isn’t […]

ChatGPT-Generated Images Coming With a Side of Advertisement

Whenever you generate an image with ChatGPT, you will now be shown ads.These ads will only appear in ChatGPT’s free and low cost tiers. Ads will not affect the answers ChatGPT gives, though the ads will be targeted to the user based on OpenAI’s data on them. With the growing popularity of its competitors, less […]

Only a Few Are Willing to Pay the Full Cost of AI

AI may be growing in popularity, but there’s a limit on how much consumers are willing to pay. AI use has increased to about 25% of adults daily, about 61% of adults have used it at some point, but only one eighth of US adults pay for AI. Experts say they don’t expect to see […]

AI Voice Startup Surges to $22B Valuation

Today ElevenLabs, an AI voice startup, doubled to a $22B valuation. The firm has created realistic human sounding AI voices and sound effects. The voices can do text to speech to narrate books, video games, and videos. It can also do speech to text, voice cloning, dubbing languages, make phone calls, and generate music. Will […]