Using AI To Regulate The Peaceful Coexistence Of Mindfulness And Mindlessness In The Human Mind

Are mindfulness and mindlessness mutually exclusive? Maybe not. Furthermore, perhaps AI can help the two coexist. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

Apple Is Actually Talking About AI Now — a Lot

New CEO John Ternus says you already have your personal AI device. It’s called an iPhone.

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

What Is Stuff? All About the Third-Party App Featured During Apple’s Latest Event

Siri AI got a few more details during the iPhone Event, including a tie-in with Stuff. Here’s what the third-party app can do for you.

Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules

Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.

Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help
Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help

Suno’s new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno’s Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was “trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on.” The data includes content licensed […]

OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia
OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia

OpenAI’s announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics’ legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striking demonstration of just how rapidly AI is transforming mathematics. But before it was even formally announced, the breakthrough had been complicated by the unusual […]

Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy
Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy

At Wednesday’s iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI “ambient listening” and users’ privacy. It says the raw audio from the new […]

Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening

Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.