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Wednesday April 23, 2025. 12:17 PM
AI education is officially coming to a school in the US near you. US President Donald Trump has signed the Executive Order on Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth, which allows K-12 public schools to implement AI training for students. The order...
Tuesday April 22, 2025. 10:29 PM
AI-powered virtual employees could hit the workforce within a year, according to Jason Clinton, chief information security officer at Anthropic. In comments to Axios, Clinton noted that, while the technology is advancing fast, major security hurdles remain before fully...
OpenAI’s update to ChatGPT on March 27 has skewed ChatGPT too far toward “sycophancy,” which in this case is a technical term that results in a fawning attitude. Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman notes the extra words people use to be polite to the AI model add up to...
Imagine contacting customer support about a technical issue, only to be told it’s “company policy” — except the policy doesn’t exist, and the “support agent” isn’t even human. That’s exactly what happened to users of Cursor, an AI-powered coding assistant, after...
Approximately 92% of companies plan to invest more money into AI integration over the next few years, according to McKinsey research. And if the new startup Mechanize has its way, companies might see the entire global workforce replaced by next-gen AI sooner rather than...
The Orb, an identity verification device created by Sam Altman’s startup Tools For Humanity, has launched in six US cities. Starting May 1, thousands of Orbs will be available for use at select locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Nashville, Miami, and Austin. ...
AI image generators have surged in popularity, transforming the way we create and interact with visuals online. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably stumbled across their mesmerizing results — all over social media, articles, or even advertisements. I’ve spent...
xAI’s Grok 3 chatbot can now remember conversations you’ve had with it, allowing it to provide more personalized responses to requests for recommendations or advice. The chatbot is available to users of the X social media platform owned by Elon Musk, who also owns xAI,...
With the ongoing AI arms race between the US and China, it’s not far-fetched for the Pentagon to use generative AI in military operations. The Department of Defense is moving into the second phase of military AI adoption, leveraging generative models to support ground...
Two recent developments in AI and astrophysics might be crucial to humanity’s quest for finding extraterrestrial life and spacecraft in the vastness of space. One is the NASA-inspired, AI-powered infrared camera to scan the skies and detect Unidentified Aerial Phenomena...
Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computers to interpret and understand human language. Using machine learning (ML) and AI, NLP tools analyze text or speech to identify context, meaning, and patterns, allowing...
Monday April 21, 2025. 11:19 PM
In a spectacle that combined elements of science fiction and athletics, China held its first-ever humanoid robot half-marathon over the weekend, pitting machines against more than 12,000 human runners in a 13.1-mile race in the streets of Beijing. The event, part of the...
If you’ve ever typed “please” or “thank you” into ChatGPT, you’re not alone — and you might be driving up OpenAI’s power bill. Just ask OpenAI CEO and tech billionaire Sam Altman. When an X (formerly Twitter) user joked about how much electricity the company...
Saturday April 19, 2025. 12:00 AM
Gemini Advanced users can now create and share high-resolution videos with its newly released Veo 2. The AI video generator Veo 2 lets users generate a cinema-quality eight-second, 720p video delivered as an MP4 file in a 16:9 landscape. Veo 2 understands real-world physics...
Friday April 18, 2025. 10:07 PM
OpenAI is reportedly considering launching an X-like social media platform, according to The Verge. If this plan comes to fruition, the social media site would make OpenAI even more of a rival to X, which is owned by Elon Musk, a former board member at OpenAI. It would also...
Google has reversed course on its Gemini Live screen sharing feature by making it available for free to all Android users through the Gemini app. The rollout will be gradual; as long as your Android phone can run the latest version of the Gemini app, you should receive this...
Thursday April 17, 2025. 08:47 PM
Does this sound familiar? It’s Wednesday night, you’re scrolling through rows and rows of movies and shows, nothing catches your eye, and suddenly it’s 25 minutes later, and you still haven’t picked something to watch. Netflix may have come up with an interesting new solution...
A brief exchange between Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey and billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has stirred the tech world into debate over IP law. “Delete all IP law,” Dorsey wrote on X on April 11. “I agree,” replied Musk, who has owned X since 2022. Dorsey later...
OpenAI announced on Monday the release of GPT-4.1, the newest successor to its GPT-4o series of AI language models. According to OpenAI, GPT-4.1 excels at instruction following, coding, and long-context processing. The GPT-4.1 large language model brings improved features...
Excessive social media use has long been associated with negative psychological effects. Now, the rise of agentic AI–AI-powered companions in particular—introduces a new set of risks for tech-savvy users. “As AI capabilities advance,” according to a recently...
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