Married British woman, 43, took her own life with a poison she bought from Amazon after using internet chat site to forge a suicide pact with fellow members, inquest hears

Married British woman, 43, took her own life with a poison she bought from Amazon after using internet chat site to forge a suicide pact with fellow members, inquest hears

A British woman took her own life with a poison she bought from Amazon after using an online chat site to forge a suicide pact with other members, an inquest has heard. Chloe Macdermott, 43, took her own life using an unnamed ‘product’ ordered from the United States in 2021 after she joined an online forum that …

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Companies are building customized AI bots to depend less on OpenAI

Companies are building customized AI bots to depend less on OpenAI

OpenAI dominates the generative AI market, and its GPT-4 is the industry’s best-performing model to date. But businesses are increasingly opting to build their own, smaller AI models that are more tailored to their business needs. Be cautious owning tech stocks in 2024 | Smart Investing Salesforce, for example, has piloted two coding AI assistants …

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US wins protections for Pentagon radar spectrum at WRC-23

US wins protections for Pentagon radar spectrum at WRC-23

China, Global, Space The WRC-23 meeting in Dubai rejected proposals that would have raised the specter of interference with DoD radars, including that used by the Navy’s Aegis cruisers. (DVIDS) WASHINGTON — The International Telecommunication Union rule-making summit wrapped up today, with the US delegation scoring a victory by maintaining protections for Defense Department radars …

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The year millennials aged out of the internet

The year millennials aged out of the internet

NEW YORK: For my entire professional life, I have started nearly every weekday morning with an extremely important productivity ritual: I make a coffee, I sit down at my computer, and I mess around on the internet for an hour or so. And, for most of my career as a writer, this has been an …

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Chevy Dealership’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue

Chevy Dealership’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech A chatbot at a California car dealership went viral this week after bored web users discovered that, as is the case with most AI programs, they could trick it into …

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