Alyssa Julya Smith visited the USC Institute for Technology earlier this month where she learned about research being conducted in virtual reality from audio lead Jamison Moore and assistant professor Ari Shapiro.
Alyssa became an avatar herself, placed in a virtual world with the nation's third president, Thomas Jefferson. We talk how virtual reality is being implemented in educational settings and how the technology can add to a curriculum.
Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content, hate speech on the site in general or billionaire owner Elon Musk’s own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
The Energy Department is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain, announcing up to $3.5 billion for companies that produce batteries and the critical minerals that go into them.
Ed Egilinsky, managing director and head of sales and distribution & alternatives with Direxion, joined Cheddar News to discuss how bond traders are reacting to the latest consumer price index data and how they're positioning portfolios ahead of next week's release of Nvidia's earnings. Egilinsky also discussed some of the other bigger-cap companies, including Alphabet, Amazon and Apple.
Facebook and Instagram will require political ads running on their platforms to disclose if they were created using artificial intelligence, their parent company announced on Wednesday.
