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OpenAI is ready to sell DALL-E to its first million customers

A DALL-E Beta subscription won’t break the bank. $15 buys you 115 credits, with one credit letting you submit a text prompt to the AI, which returns four images at a time.... Read more »

The legacy of Europe’s heat waves will be more air conditioning. That’s a problem.

Climate change is making extreme heat the norm across more of the world, increasing the need for adaptation. But in the case of AC, some experts are concerned about how to balance... Read more »

The feud between a weed influencer and scientist over puking stoners

The group had been started by a CHS patient named Erica, a 37-year-old artist who had looked online for resources after her diagnosis and, finding nothing, had decided to establish “basically a... Read more »

Deep learning delivers proactive cyber defense

The increased pace of high-profile threats (e.g., ransomware) is up to double–digit (15.8%) growth. The result is a dangerous path most likely to lead to continued losses for organizations that fall victim... Read more »

The Download: a cannabis disorder conflict, and ever-hotter heatwaves

Alice Moon couldn’t stop throwing up.  She had made a name for herself as an online cannabis influencer, but after a weed-infused dinner in a Malibu home in 2018, she spent more... Read more »

The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke

The group had been started by a CHS patient named Erica, a 37-year-old artist who had looked online for resources after her diagnosis and, finding nothing, had decided to establish “basically a... Read more »

The Download: how a racing AI won, and taking on biotech’s big challenges

“Wait, what? How?” Emily Jones wasn’t used to being left behind. A top sim-racing driver with multiple wins to her name, Jones jerked the steering wheel in the esports rig, eyes fixed... Read more »

Sony’s racing AI destroyed its human competitors by being nice (and fast)

But Sony soon learned that speed alone wasn’t enough to make GT Sophy a winner. The program outpaced all human drivers on an empty track, setting superhuman lap times across three different... Read more »

Customer and employee experience: The new normal

In fact, Pew Research found that a full 86% of respondents to a survey about post-pandemic life expect the pandemic to have lasting effects on everyday experiences. In the context of retail... Read more »

The Download: a novel form of censorship in China, and a self-taught robot dog

Imagine you are working on your novel on your home computer. It’s nearly finished; you have already written approximately one million words. All of a sudden, the online word processing software tells... Read more »