Meta's Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning Users of the VR fitness service are distraught that Supernatural has had its staff cut and won't receive any more content updates. I hear a stranger's heavy breathing through the rollicking dude-bro anthem blasting my eardrums, courtesy of the pop-rock band Imagine Dragons. Me and two people I just met are punching digital blocks that fly at our heads in the VR workout platform Supernatural . My new friends have nameplates floating above their heads that say Chip and Alisa. That's all I know about them.

Trump officials reboot coal council Biden admin shut down, calling previous administration's move 'ignorance and arrogance' as industry fights red tape.

Signal's Founder Built a Chatbot That Can't Spy on You Welcome back to, TIME's new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. If you're reading this in your browser, why not subscribe to have the next one delivered straight to your inbox? What to Know: Signal's founder is working on encrypted chatbots Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographic prodigy who wrote the code that underpins Signal and WhatsApp, has a new project--and it could be one of the most important things happening in AI right now. The tool, named Confer, is an end-to-end encrypted AI assistant. It uses smart math to ensure that even though the compute-intensive process of running the AI still happens on a server in the cloud, the only person who can access the unscrambled details of that computation is you, the user.

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OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. If someone ever makes an HBO Max series about the AI industry, the events of this week will make quite the episode. On Wednesday, OpenAI's CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, announced the company had rehired Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, cofounders of Mira Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. We reported last night on two narratives forming around what led to the departures, and have since learned new information. A source with direct knowledge says that Thinking Machines leadership believed Zoph engaged in an incident of serious misconduct while at the company last year.

Sophie Turner as Lara Croft generates fan excitement after Prime Video releases first look photos from the upcoming live-action "Tomb Raider" series currently in production.

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Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini Netflix's expanded Sony deal includes streaming rights to the Legend of Zelda movie It will also be the first streaming service to get Sony's films worldwide. As part of a new agreement, films from Sony Pictures Entertainment will stream on Netflix first, the companies announced via a joint statement . The new deal expands on the exclusive rights Netflix had to Sony films in the US, and means the service will be the first place people will be able to stream upcoming projects like the live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda, and a quartet of biopics about The Beatles . Sony's films will stream worldwide on Netflix in what's called Pay-1, the first window of availability after a movie's theatrical and VOD releases. As part of the deal, Netflix is also licensing an undisclosed number of films and television shows from the Sony Pictures back catalog to help fill out its library.

Experts tell Senate committee on Thursday that AI chatbots pose a threat to children's mental health and can foster unhealthy relationships.

Spanning 1 million light-years, J1007+3540's plasma jets are nearly 10 times wider than the Milky Way. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster--and after almost 100 million years of slumber, astronomers now say it's making up for lost time. According to a study published today in, J1007+3540 is erupting like a volcano and spewing plasma across interstellar space. In fact, it can lay dormant for eons.