tesla Tesla Confirms Autopilot Active During Fatal California Highway Crash Tesla confirms a fatal March crash in Mountain View, California, occurred while the vehicle's autopilot feature was actively engaged. The company notes the driver received multiple warnings before the collision and blames a missing highway safety barrier for the severity of the impact.
facebook #DeleteFacebook Movement Grows After Massive Data Harvesting Scandal Social media users are abandoning Facebook in droves using the #DeleteFacebook hashtag after revelations that a data firm harvested personal information from 50 million people. The backlash intensifies as even WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton publicly joins the protest.
uber Uber Self-Driving Vehicle Causes First Recorded Pedestrian Fatality in Arizona Elaine Herzberg dies after an Uber test vehicle strikes her in Tempe, marking the first pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car. The incident prompts widespread safety investigations and a temporary halt to the company's autonomous testing programs.
facebook Millions of Facebook Users Impacted by Massive Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal A British consulting firm harvests personal data from up to 87 million Facebook users without consent to build psychological profiles for political advertising.
stephen hawking Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking Dies at 76 Stephen Hawking, the renowned British physicist who revolutionized our understanding of black holes and the universe, has passed away at the age of 76. He defied medical expectations by surviving more than five decades after his ALS diagnosis.
google Google Faces Internal Backlash Over Pentagon Drone AI Partnership Google is providing artificial intelligence technology to the Pentagon to help analyze drone footage, sparking outrage and ethical debates among its own employees.
openai OpenAI Introduces Robotic Testing Environments for Multi-Goal AI Research A new technical report unveils a suite of challenging robotics tasks for OpenAI Gym that focus on multi-goal reinforcement learning. The environments feature sparse rewards and aim to drive future algorithmic improvements.
samsung Samsung Galaxy S9 Unveils Multimodal Intelligent Scan Biometric Security Samsung introduces a new multimodal authentication system called Intelligent Scan for the Galaxy S9, combining facial recognition and iris scanning to compete directly with Apple's Face ID.
artificial intelligence Landmark Report Warns of Malicious AI Threats and Urges Better Defenses A comprehensive study by 26 leading researchers examines how bad actors exploit artificial intelligence across digital, physical, and political domains, offering key strategies to forecast and prevent these emerging security risks.
boston dynamics Boston Dynamics SpotMini Resists Human Interference to Open Door Boston Dynamics releases a video showing its SpotMini robot autonomously opening a door while a human tries to stop it with a hockey stick. The demonstration highlights the robot's ability to handle physical disturbances, though it still requires initial human guidance.
boston dynamics Boston Dynamics SpotMini Robot Overcomes Human Interference to Open Door Boston Dynamics releases a new video showing its SpotMini robot successfully opening a door while a human repeatedly hits it with a hockey stick. The test demonstrates the robot's ability to adapt to unexpected external forces and stay on task.
waymo Arizona Approves Waymo for First Fully Driverless Ride-Hailing Service Waymo receives approval from Arizona regulators to launch the nation's first ride-hailing service without a human driver behind the wheel.
waymo Waymo Secures Permit for First Commercial Driverless Ride-Hailing Service Waymo receives approval from Arizona to operate as a Transportation Network Company, allowing the company to charge riders for driverless trips. The Alphabet unit plans to launch the commercial service in Phoenix this year.
nlp New Deep Contextualized Word Vectors Advance Natural Language Processing Researchers introduce deep contextualized word representations that capture complex syntax and semantics using a bidirectional language model. These new vectors significantly improve performance across six major NLP tasks.
google cloud Google Cloud Launches Cloud TPU Accelerators in Beta for Faster ML Training Google makes its custom Cloud TPU hardware accelerators available in beta on Google Cloud Platform to dramatically speed up TensorFlow machine learning workloads.