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Hello there, AI gold rush

Seems like every day there’s a new AI startup raking in investor cash.
Jacob Cohen • March 17, 2023

The next frontier in facial-recognition tech: Not stealing dead people’s pics, ideally

A face-search engine scraping obit photos shows off the lawless land of post-mortem privacy.
Ben Berkley • March 13, 2023

Microsoft and Google’s AI race

Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing may have Chrome users trying something new.
Juliet Bennett Rylah • February 9, 2023

The future of AI looks like the music industry’s past

Does AI steal people’s creative work?
Mark Dent • February 6, 2023

Would ChatGPT get a Wharton MBA?

As the saying goes, Cs get degrees — and ChatGPT just got a B.
Jacob Cohen • January 25, 2023

Draconian face ID tech is intensifying

Can a business use face ID tech to ban people it has beef with?
Juliet Bennett Rylah • December 23, 2022

Why is this AI app undressing female users without their consent?

Lensa has been spitting out hypersexualized images of women and lightening skin tones.
Sara Friedman • December 15, 2022

Can AI cure writer’s block?

Lex, an AI-enabled word processor, might be GPT-3’s first breakthrough app.
Rob Litterst • October 24, 2022

AI can’t get enough of this fantasy artist

One artist has had his name used as a prompt 93k+ times as an AI prompt, much to his chagrin.
Juliet Bennett Rylah • October 13, 2022

Where English learning meets AI

ELSA -- which just raised a $15M round -- is using AI to power its English-learning app
Shelley Tang • February 4, 2021

Not The Onion: Reface raises $5.5m for its AI-powered face-swapping app

Reface has been a huge 2020 hit, with 70m downloads and countless viral shares of its face-swapping videos and GIFs.
Trung T. Phan • December 10, 2020

This recycling robot can’t come to market fast enough

AMP Robotics is looking to raise $70m for its automated recycling technology.
Trung T. Phan • November 25, 2020

This AI startup is reading the entire internet non-stop. Why?

Diffbot is training its AI to be more trustworthy by reading the internet nonstop and creating a system that ensures the accuracy of its...
Trung T. Phan • September 8, 2020

What exactly is Elon Musk’s Neuralink? Here are our 3 guesses.

In anticipation of Elon Musk’s Neuralink demo, we lay out the only three possible outcomes.
Bobby Durben • August 28, 2020

Alibaba is adapting facial recognition tech to address China’s swine shortage

Chinese tech companies are using sophisticated facial recognition technology to monitor pigs, but farmers aren’t convinced.
Conor Grant • February 26, 2019

AI’s gettin’ spicy: McCormick partnered with IBM to use AI to analyze its ‘taste data’

McCormick has partnered with IBM on a platform that will create new flavor combinations using AI and machine learning.
Wes Schlagenhauf • February 5, 2019

Goodwill stores are now using AI to ensure that all of its luxury items are legit

Goodwill is teaming with Entrupy’s AI-based program to guarantee the authenticity of luxury items.
Wes Schlagenhauf • January 14, 2019

Amazon will use AI to deliver free samples of products it knows you want

With its treasure trove of user data, Amazon wants to revolutionize the ad targeting business by delivering free samples of what consumers like right...
Wes Schlagenhauf • January 9, 2019

AI platform Sentieo raises $19m Series A to replace the Bloomberg Terminal

TechCrunch reports that AI-powered “investment research software” Sentieo has raised $19m to pour some marketing fuel on its SaaS fire. The company uses natural...
Lindsey Quinn • October 31, 2018

Eye-robot: AI is taking over, but this robo revolution isn’t what Will Smith expected

They may not look like robo-humans from I, Robot, but AI bots are becoming an all-too-real part of daily life.  From AI bots that...
Conor Grant • October 24, 2018

AI Superlatives: Here’s what’s happening in the global race for AI supremacy

When it comes to AI, the United States and China are most likely to succeed (in terms of startup funding, at least). Chinese startups...
Wes Schlagenhauf • May 3, 2018

Demand for surveillance tech drives facial-recognition company’s value to $4.5B

SenseTime, a Chinese facial-recognition technology company, just pulled a piping-hot $600m of funding out of the oven — making the company nearly twice as...
Conor Grant • April 10, 2018

Parents petition against AI baby monitor that raises your kids

Over 15k concerned parents, psychologists, and privacy experts have signed a petition to keep Mattel from releasing Aristotle, an Amazon Echo-like device for kids....
The Hustle • October 4, 2017

“I believe the future belongs to AI”

That’s 19-year-old world champion Ke Jie upon a recently losing a game of Go to Google’s AlphaGo robot. For those who grew up with...
The Hustle • May 24, 2017

F.B. codes home

In a blog post on Facebook last January, Zuckerberg announced that his personal challenge for 2016 was to build a “simple AI” to run...
The Hustle • December 20, 2016

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