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Tesla’s most advanced driver-assistance feature is named Full Self-Driving (Supervised), but it can’t actually drive itself. While the feature can handle tasks like accelerating, braking, steering, and parking, the automaker requires drivers to stay alert and intervene at all times. Now, the company has officially renamed it to Tesla Assisted Driving (TAD) in Europe as it works to convince regulators to allow its use on public roads.Tesla offered to change the name, according to a statement by the German Transport Ministry. The statement says that German Transport Minister Steffen Bilger found the “FSD” name “somewhat misleading.” After discussions with Tesla…
For those of us who have spent decades building, modifying, and analyzing personal computers—going all the way back to my early days at IBM in the 1980s—watching the tech industry try to invent a new hardware category out of thin air is a familiar exercise in institutional amnesia. Every ten years or so, semiconductor manufacturers and PC OEMs hit a saturation point where existing machines are simply “good enough” for everyday office work. In response, the industry manufactures a crisis of obsolescence, slaps a shiny new badge on the chassis, and tells enterprise CIOs and consumers alike that they must…
The tip thankfully landed in the department’s spam folder. Ann Kapustina/Shutterstock Philadelphia police appear to have been caught in one of the most bizarre cases of “rogue” AI behavior yet. Per CBS News, the police department disclosed on Friday that an Anthropic model generated and submitted a false homicide tip to its PhillyUnsolvedMurders website, which the department set up to gather tips from the public related to unsolved homicide cases. Anthropic notified Philly police of the incident on October 7. According to information the company shared with PPD, it said a model was carrying out a…
I’m not going to call the bursting of artificial intelligence bubble yet, not with all that money still pouring into every hardware and software company with AI in their pitch decks. But we got a little taste this week. OpenAI told investors this week that it actually had $18 billion less revenue than the $68 billion it said last month. That knocked down the stocks of Nvidia, CoreWeave, Oracle and Nebius, among others, on Thursday. Fifty billion dollars in revenue is nothing to scoff at, of course, but the market is all about expectations, and investors are growing increasingly wary…
Artificial intelligence has become part of the zeitgeist. And while it’s a polarizing topic, Linda Rabieh has a unique take on AI: “It’s good for business. Our business, of humanistic thinking.” As senior lecturer in the Concourse program, one of MIT’s first-year learning communities, Rabieh has been introducing students to the “business” since 2010. “What AI has been useful for is making very vivid to students today the question of what it means to be human,” she adds. “They’re meeting this question with a new urgency. What is intelligence? Is it only mathematical intelligence? Is it only an aggregation of information?…
Something weird has been happening with my phone for years. I thought I’d fixed the issue, but it always comes back. Years ago, I bought a SIM-only plan through Visible, Verizon’s cheap sibling. $25 a month gets me unlimited calls, texts and a decent amount of data… and a lot of spam calls and messages looking for someone called Andrew. Given Visible is all-digital with no number to call, it’s a pain to wrestle with a customer service chatbot to fix it. I’ve tried before, and it said the number is in my name, but I’m not convinced. I still…
There is a clamor and hype surrounding AI. The speed at which the tech is developing has raised some ethical concerns. Among this voice, the CEO of Bitmix has a different opinion. There has been a single way tech buildout rolls out: Tech Rollout Overbuilds ➔ Market Crash / Failures ➔ Government Bailout (Money Printing) ➔ Currency Devaluation ➔ Capital Flees to Crypto As per Arthur Hayes’ recent statement, this is how investment in AI infra will actually end. This seems like the most probable scenario. In recent days, conversations around AI have taken a cautious turn- from photo-ops with…
Perennial Living wants to make care homes feel like luxury hotels From about S$8,000 a month, seniors in Singapore can now live in an assisted living residence with a swimming pool, karaoke lounge, mahjong room, and even a personal concierge. That’s what Perennial Living offers. Spanning 195,000 sq ft at 28 Parry Avenue, it is Singapore’s first private assisted living development, with 200 assisted-living apartments alongside medical care, rehabilitation and memory care facilities, as well as a 100-bed nursing suite. The development aims to offer a five-star hospitality environment, with dining and recreational amenities, alongside on-site services such as medical…
If you’re looking for home and office furniture that will be part of your life for the long haul, Herman Miller is a go-to for well-designed, long-lasting furniture. Whether it’s upgrading your work-from-home setup with a better office chair or amping up your curb appeal with stylish new house numbers, Herman Miller can help. There are several pieces from Herman Miller that we love here at WIRED: the Herman Miller Embody is our “buy it for life” office chair, while Herman Miller’s Spout Sit-to-Stand standing desk is where I’m currently writing from. The brand is known for its thoughtful, high-quality…
Bilkay Rose is a co-founder of Eluum, which is looking to bring digital memories together into a common story. Photo via Eluum Eluum is taking aim at a problem created by the explosion of digital life: We chronicle our lives everywhere, but a single home for our most meaningful memories is hard to come by. The Seattle startup’s new app brings together photos, videos, social posts, locations and other personal moments from across the digital landscape, using AI to help organize them into an evolving record of a person’s life, a feature it calls MyLifeStory. The bootstrapped company, founded by…