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Here's what AI for sustainability actually looks like

ChatGPT won't save the planet. Nor will Copilot, or Stability AI, or Claude. But there is still a sustainable promise to machine learning. • One of the oft-touted promises of AI involves addressing and mitigating the impacts of climate change. • The details of this effort, however, are complicated, particularly as AI consumes an enormous amount of energy. • TheStreet sat down with IBM executives to discuss the business of sustainability. Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella said in his annual sha
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Here's how investors should navigate the bubble of the AI boom

One leading venture capitalist told TheStreet that when the hysteria ends, AI companies will need to start making money. How they might do so is a 'terrifying' question. • AI hype has pushed tech valuations into the stratosphere over the past year in the early stages of what some have deemed the 'AI bubble.' • TheStreet sat down with Ari Newman, co-founder of venture capital firm Massive, to discuss his AI investment strategy in the midst of AI washing and investor hysteria. • He said that event
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In 2026, you'll be able to pay $164,000 to ride a balloon to space

TheStreet sat down with the CEO of Halo Space, a near-space tourism company that is gearing up for its sixth test flight. • Space tourism, with a current market size of around $800 million, is expected to soon become a multi-billion dollar industry. • Halo Space, a near-space, emission-free tourism company, has plans to begin commercial operations in 2026. • TheStreet sat down with Halo Space CEO Carlos Mira to discuss the company's approach and plans. Carlos Mira, the CEO of Halo Space, rememb
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How one deepfake revenge porn victim is changing the system

When she called the police, they did nothing. So she decided to try to change the system. • In 2020, Breeze Liu became a victim of deepfake revenge porn. • She has since become an activist in the space, launching AlectoAI, a company designed to help other victims identify and remove nonconsensual content across the internet. Four years ago, Breeze Liu got a call from a friend that changed the trajectory of her life. "I don't want you to panic," he told her, "but there's a video of you circulat
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What is a deepfake? Everything you need to know about the controversial AI technology

Deepfakes are everywhere. We explain what they are, why they're dangerous, and how to protect yourself from being fooled by them. • Deepfakes are computer-generated audio, photo, or video media that realistically impersonate a real person. • AI-generated deepfake technology has a lot of implications for politicians, voters, social media platforms, businesses, public figures, and civilians. • This is TheStreet's guide to deepfakes: What they are and how you can protect yourself. Deepfake technol
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Researcher has a warning about the future of the AI boom

• Deepwater management's Gene Munster thinks an AI bull market will rage for the next three to five years, before ending in a bubble. • AI researcher Gary Marcus said that the AI bubble could burst within the next year. • Venture capital firm Sequoia recently estimated that the AI industry spent $50 billion on Nvidia chips last year alone, making $3 billion in revenue. In 2000, the dot-com bubble burst, ending a five-year period of soaring valuations and ever-increasing investor excitement ove
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Former NASA administrator says the space around Earth is like the 'Wild West'

The space around Earth is getting crowded. Private space companies plan to keep piling on. • TheStreet spoke with former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe regarding the risk of ever-increasing quantities of space debris orbiting Earth. • There are currently about 9,000 functional satellites in orbit, according to the European Space Agency. • Private corporations including SpaceX and Amazon have plans to launch tens of thousands of satellites. Space may well be infinite, but the space around Earth
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White House explains how the government can and can't use AI

The executive order was just a first step, one expert said. The OMB memo is "where the rubber meets the road." • The President's Office of Management and Budget published a new policy Thursday concerning the ways AI can be used by government agencies. • Before the end of the year, government agencies will be required to implement "concrete safeguards" in order to integrate AI systems. • One expert said the policy protects people through specific, enforceable measures while boosting innovation at
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Popular online marketplace breaks its own policy selling fake porn

Simple searches on the online marketplace return dozens of explicit images that appear to be in violation of Etsy's own terms of use. • Explicit, AI-generated images are readily available for sale on Etsy, the online marketplace. • The images appear to be in violation of Etsy's terms of use, which prohibit pornography. • Following TheStreet's report, Etsy took several instances of such images, and at least one shop, off its site entirely. Etsy, the online marketplace where you can buy everythin
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A whole new world: Cybersecurity expert calls out the breaking of online trust

Cybersecurity expert and Mimecast vice president of human risk strategy Masha Sedova told TheStreet that the age of digital distrust has arrived. • Instances of AI-generated deepfakes have been on a steady rise over the past year. • This proliferation of synthetic information online, cybersecurity expert Masha Sedova told TheStreet, has led to the destruction of digital trust. The issue of deepfakes, courtesy of artificial intelligence, is not a new one. But in recent months, it's turned into s
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Justice Department sues Apple, charges 'smartphone monopoly'

The Justice Department said that Apple's business practices have stifled competition and harmed consumers. • The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. • In its complaint, the DOJ alleges that Apple has built a 'smartphone monopoly' that will continue to grow if left unchallenged. • Apple told TheStreet in a statement that the suit would set a 'dangerous precedent.' The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple (AAP
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Reddit user makes $20,000 during stock's first day of trading

• Reddit debuted March 21 on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RDDT. • The stock spiked as much as 70% above its IPO price of $34 throughout the trading day. • At its peak on March 21, Reddit boasted a $10 billion market cap. Reddit (RDDT) , the 19-year-old social media platform known for its millions of passionate internet communities, debuted on the New York Stock Exchange March 21 under the ticker RDDT. Shares of the company soared as much as 70% above its initial public offering
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Expert on government-commissioned AI threat report: A lot of hype, but a good plan

TheStreet spoke with the Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology about the report. • Gladstone AI last week published a nearly 300-page government-commissioned report detailing the "catastrophic" risks posed by AI. • TheStreet sat down with David Bader, the Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology, to break down the report. • "Certainly there's a lot of hype," Bader said, "but there's also a lot of real-world threat
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The startup wars: Anthropic for Google, Inflection for Microsoft

The giants of the tech sector are consuming promising startups. • Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet models became available on Google's cloud Tuesday. • At the same time, Microsoft struck a significant deal with another AI startup, Inflection. Earlier in March, Google (GOOG) announced that Anthropic's new family of artificial intelligence models — dubbed Claude 3 — will be made available to paying customers on Google's cloud-based Vertex AI platform. Anthropic said Tuesday that two of the
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Microsoft CEO hedges OpenAI bet, launches new AI organization

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday that Microsoft is launching a new organization called "Microsoft AI." • The organization will be focused on consumer-facing AI products and research. • Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind founder and Inflection co-founder, has departed Inflection to lead the new group. Microsoft (MSFT) is forming a new organization, called Microsoft AI, that will focus on the company's consumer-facing artificial intelligence products, technology and research. CEO Satya Nadell
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SpaceX investor explains how to invest in space

Chad Anderson, the managing partner of Space Capital, told TheStreet that investing in space is not nearly as high risk as it might seem. • Around $300 billion has been invested in space companies over the past decade, according to Space Capital. • Analysts expect the industry to be bringing in $1 trillion in annual revenue by 2040. • TheStreet sat down with Chad Anderson, managing partner of Space Capital, who explained that investing in space isn't as high risk as people may think. Perhaps be
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Why one doctor turned to AI to 'dysolve' dyslexia

• After three decades in the field, Dr. Coral Hoh designed an AI-powered solution for kids with language disorders: Dysolve. • The program uses AI to custom-design accessible interventions meant to help kids overcome dyslexia. • TheStreet sat down with Dr. Hoh to discuss the limitations in the field, and how AI helps families overcome them. Even as artificial intelligence has been spotlighted in congressional hearings and courtrooms over ethical concerns that encompass inherent issues includin
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Exclusive: Photoroom CEO on the critical ways it isn't like OpenAI or Midjourney

Photoroom is taking a focused approach when it comes to safety and ethics in AI. • Rouif explained Photoroom's approach when it comes to the ethics around its new image-generation tools, highlighting guardrails and filtration. The past year has seen a proliferation both of artificial intelligence tools and ethical concerns about those tools. Among these concerns is one of massive copyright infringement, both in the input and output of generative AI tools. Such copyright concerns have fueled ma
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No, Elon Musk, AI self-awareness is not 'inevitable'

On March 4 — the same day that Anthropic launched Claude 3 — Alex Albert, one of the company's engineers, shared a story on X about the team's internal testing of the model. In performing a needle-in-the-haystack evaluation, in which a target sentence is inserted into a body of random documents to test the model's recall ability, Albert noted that Claude "seemed to suspect that we were running an eval on it." Anthropic's "needle" was a sentence about pizza toppings. The "haystack" was a body o
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Building trust in AI: Watermarking is only one piece of the puzzle

Steg.AI provides an enterprise forensic watermarking solution. A recent report argues that watermarking, while a creative innovation, is alone not enough. 2024 will be a historic year for elections, with more than two billion voters across 50 countries heading to the polls — including the United States, India and Mexico — according to the World Economic Forum. As these elections approach, concerns over the role artificial intelligence can play in spreading political and electoral misinformatio
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