Katie Notopoulos

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Brad Davis |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget

The hottest trend this spring for young people is … gardening. Growing carrots and strawberries, pruning weeds. I'm sorry to inform parents anxious about screentime: This doesn't mean your kids are digging in the dirt outside in the fresh air. They're probably on Roblox, playing "Grow a Garden," which, as I typed this Thursday, had more than 2.2 million people playing — four times as many as the next most popular game.

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Brad Davis |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget

You may find ChatGPT useful for many things. A friend showed me the other day how he used it to turn a photo of his daughter's favorite stuffed animal into a printed-out coloring book, which seemed pretty nifty. Here's something I have now also tried on ChatGPT and do not recommend: looksmaxxing. For the uninitiated: "Looksmaxxing" is a term for the quest to improve one's looks through skincare, hair styling, new clothes, and physical fitness. That sounds benign.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Brad Davis |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget

I wanted to go to the Solana Accelerate conference as soon as I saw the trailer for the crypto confab. The video ad showed "America" at a therapist's office, where the country described its urge to innovate and was met with resistance from a "woke" therapist, who encouraged America to "channel this energy into something more productive, like coming up with a new gender."The ad was so over the top in its culture war stance that the Solana organization pulled the video a few hours later.

1 month ago | businessinsider.jp | Katie Notopoulos

テック業界を長く取材してきた記者として、また一人のガジェットマニアとして、Appleのジョニー・アイブ元最高デザイン責任者（CDO）とOpenAIのサム・アルトマン最高経営責任者（CEO）がAI向けデバイスの開発に取り組んでいると聞いて興奮を隠せない。期待もしている。 ※アルトマン氏率いるOpenAIは5月21日、アイブ氏創業のAI端末開発企業io Products（アイオープロダクツ）を65億ドルで買収すると発表。2024年中に23％の株式を取得済みで、残りを株式交換方式で取得する。 でも、二人に一つだけ聞いてほしいことがある。お願いだから、音声操作デバイスだけはやめてもらいたい。 アイブ氏とアルトマン氏は今後の協業に関して、新たなデバイスの開発を示唆した。買収発表と同時に公開された対談動画でも若干の言及があるが、現時点で分かっていることはウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル記事（5月21日付）に網羅されている。 同記事によれば、買収発表直後の（OpenAIの）社内ミーティングでは、両氏から開発中のデバイスに関する断片的な情報共有があったという。...

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget

I'm as curious and excited as any gadget-lover to see what newfangled AI thingamabob will come from OpenAI's $6.5 billion purchase of ex-Apple designer Jony Ive's io company. But I have one request: please, for the love of God, do not make it a voice-controlled device. Here's what we know about the possible device that Ive and Sam Altman are teasing in a video about their new collaboration.