Топ-10 технологий на 2025-12-19
1. Instacart’s AI-driven pricing tool attracted attention – now the FTC has questions | TechCrunch
Описание: In an economy where everyone’s feeling squeezed, AI-driven price testing of kitchen essentials was bound to attract attention.
2. Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors’ work in AI training | TechCrunch
| Описание: Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors’ work in AI training | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com |
3. ‘Wicked’ Director Jon M. Chu on ‘What Makes Art Beautiful’ in the AI Era
Описание: In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we bring you our conversation with Jon M. Chu from WIRED’s Big Interview event, fresh on the heels of directing “Wicked: For Good.”
4. Meta pauses third-party Horizon VR headsets program
Описание: Meta has “paused” its program to license its VR operating system to other hardware companies so they could build their own headsets using the platform, as reported by Road to VR . With the program, announced in April 2024, Meta announced that it would be lice…
5. Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs
Описание: Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) fired off a letter on Tuesday to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and several major data center developers to investigate the impact they’re having on Americans’ utility bil…
6. Amazon has a new leader for its ‘AGI’ group as it plays catch-up on AI
Описание: Amazon’s head of artificial general intelligence (AGI), Rohit Prasad, is leaving the company next year as it reaches an “inflection point” in its development of the technology, CEO Andy Jassy announced on Wednesday. As part of the change, Peter DeSantis, a se…
7. Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest’s Horizon OS with third-party headset makers | TechCrunch
| Описание: Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest’s Horizon OS with third-party headset makers | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com |
8. AI toys are telling kids how to find knives, and senators are mad
Описание: Sexual fetish content. How to light a match. Where to find knives in the home. These are all conversation topics that recently-recalled children’s toys - built atop AI chatbots like OpenAI’s GPT-4o - are capable of bringing up to children. On Tuesday, U.S. se…
9. AI companies are sick of their favorite buzzword
Описание: The cringe comes for us all, and for all our hot new turns of phrase. “Rizz” lost its luster when grandparents started asking about its meaning. Teachers who dressed up as “6-7” on Halloween drove a nail into the coffin of Gen Alpha’s rallying cry. And tech C…
10. Facebook is testing a link posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
| Описание: Facebook is testing a link posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com |