As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it’s leaning on AI avatars to provide individual feedback. These avatars were created by a startup called HeyGen and are included in the eight-week, $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs. The program offers live sessions with instructors every week, but the AI avatars are the ones
British moviegoers might soon have to choose between their popcorn and their Meta smart glasses as cinemas across the UK move to restrict the AI-enabled eyewear over piracy concerns. Cinema operators across the UK are considering policies that would ban or restrict camera-equipped smart glasses, including Meta’s AI-powered eyewear, the UK Cinema Association said Thursday.
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Our phones have become do-it-all gadgets. They enable us to keep in touch with one another, track how many steps we’re taking each day, snap photos of everything, and access the collective knowledge of humanity. All that universal functionality extends across both our work and personal lives. The gadget that pings you on Slack when
Indian startups spent years getting consumers accustomed to having groceries and everyday goods delivered within minutes. Now Walmart-owned Flipkart is rapidly closing the gap with those quick-commerce pioneers, as global rival Amazon mounts its own push into instant delivery. Flipkart Minutes, which debuted in August 2024 as the e-commerce giant’s foray into quick commerce, is
Vibe coding started as a shortcut for developers. Meta now wants to turn it into a social-media habit. The company is rolling out Pocket in the US, an app that allows users to create small games and interactive experiences simply by describing them to AI. Those creations, called “gizmos,” can then be published to profiles,
Grand Theft Auto VI is being plagued by more leaks than a sinking ship, beginning with the trailer three years ago, and continuing into this week with a gameplay release that sees the protagonist, Jason Duval, robbing a gas station convenience store, escaping in a car, suffering a slow-motion car crash, and then escaping into
I tested the Premium plan extensively in the UK and briefly in Europe. It was quick and easy to set up in the Saily app and kept me connected as I roamed, offering decent speeds up to around 300 Mbps on 5G networks in city center locations, inevitably dropping off to 4G and around 15
OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards to a landmark AI safety bill that was passed last year. In a LinkedIn post from the company’s global affairs team, OpenAI said California’s SB 53 “should be amended to expand safeguards,” for example by “requiring monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation for potential
Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on a decades-old Windows tool that administrators still use — and attackers have repeatedly abused. The company has now removed Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) from Windows, completing a long-running deprecation process that has gradually pushed the utility out of the operating system. Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Beta