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Tony Tran

Tony Tran

Deputy Editor, Innovation & Tech at The Daily Beast

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Boston University Suggests Replacing Striking Grad Students With AI - The Daily Beast

In response to a grad student worker strike, the school recommends that staff utilize generative AI tools “to give feedback or facilitate ‘discussion’ on readings or assignments.”
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This OpenAI-Powered Humanoid Robot Is Jaw-Droppingly Creepy - The D...

In a demo, the robot can be seen putting away dishes, cleaning up trash, and handing an apple to a human when they say they are hungry.
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Rivian's Reveals Cheaper and Sportier R2 and R3 Electric SUVs - The...

It’s the kind of car you might expect to load up with camping supplies in the back and a kayak on the top for a weekend excursion—with a much less hair-raising price point.
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Is Anthropic's Claude 3 the ChatGPT Killer? - The Daily Beast

The company claims it “exhibits near-human levels of comprehension and fluency on complex tasks” including mathematics, language comprehension, and cognitive reasoning.
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This App May See That You're Depressed Before You Do - The Daily Beast

MoodCapture uses a facial recognition AI to pick up on subtle signs of depression—but it also opens the doors to a mess of privacy and security issues.
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Google Pulls Gemini's AI Image Generator After 'Woke' Photos - The ...

The company is pausing the tool after it created historically inaccurate images such as Black Nazi soldiers and Native American U.S. senators.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Went Completely Off the Rails for Hours - The Dail...

“It’s lost its mind.”

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Is the University of Michigan Selling Student Data to Train AI? - T...

It is unclear whether those included in the datasets consented to having their audio and texts used in such a manner.
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OpenAI's Video Generator Sora Is Stunning and Utterly Terrifying - ...

The text-to-video model is able to create videos up to a minute long.
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OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Is Getting a Huge Memory Upgrade - The Dai...

OpenAI announced that it is testing out a new feature that allows ChatGPT to remember specific details to “make future chats more helpful.”
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Apple Vision Pro Users Are Mad They Can't Watch 3D Porn - The Daily...

Sorry, horny weirdos. You’ll have to find another way to get off.
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The Apple Vision Pro's Big Problem Isn't Price. It's Neck Pain. - T...

The VR headset is reportedly a pain in the neck for some who have used it. We asked neck and spine doctors to weigh in.
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The Biden Deepfake Robocall Is Just the Start of Our AI Election He...

“Don’t leave your common sense behind.”
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The AI-Powered Rabbit R1 Wants to Kill Your iPhone For Good - The D...

The R1 is the world’s first “large action model” device that does everything your phone does—but better.
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Microsoft Launches Copilot Pro AI Tool for $20 a Month - The Daily ...

Copilot Pro allows users to generate PowerPoint presentations, Outlook emails, Word documents, and images via prompts.
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Why This Brain-Hacking Technology Will Turn Us All Into Cyborgs - T...

The future of smart technology is blurring the line between our devices and our minds—and could put our privacy and humanity at risk.
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Cappella and Chill Baby Tech Use AI to Translate Babys Crying - The...

Parents know the headaches and loss of sleep that comes with newborns. These startups think that artificial intelligence is the answer.
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Hyundai's S-A2 Air Taxi Wants to Be the Uber of the Skies - The Dai...

The four-passenger eVTOL is slated for a 2028 launch.
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This Vest Lets You Feel VR Gunshots, Lasers, and Stab Wounds - The ...

Haptic technology allows you to “feel” virtual reality—and it has a lot of potential beyond leveling up our gaming.
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CES 2024 Shows Us That Our Tech Is About to Get Really Weird - The ...

Here’s a sneak preview into the virtual, AI-infused, stir-fried weirdness of the future.
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Sony's VR Device Lets You Make 3D Designs in Real Life - The Daily ...

CEO Kenichiro Yoshida told reporters at a Monday press conference that the device is a “new solution for spatial content creation.”