OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.
OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company following an internal restructuring that merges its safety and research teams under a single
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Apple is prepping for life after the AI gold rush
Consumer electronics prices are shooting up. Energy prices are increasing fast. Even water bills are climbing. For a technology that promises “efficiency,” the ongoing AI gold rush
The US agency that defends federal networks did not have its own incident response playbook when it got hacked
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency revealed in a postmortem report on Friday that it did not have a prepared response plan for handling
Apple sues OpenAI for stealing hardware designs, alleging employees brought prototypes to “show and tell” interviews
Apple has sued OpenAI in a California federal court, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using current and former employees to steal hardware designs as it
Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor
There are some obvious big picture issues that stand between us and useful quantum computing. Issues like whether we can make enough high-quality hardware qubits
Increased drone surveillance of illegal July 4th fireworks led to $100K fine
More cities and towns deployed drones to spot illegal fireworks during the Fourth of July celebrations commemorating America’s 250th anniversary—leading to a $100,000 fine in
The ultimate guide to Android contacts management
You’d think keeping tabs on your contacts would be about the simplest and most straightforward task imaginable in our modern connected world — wouldn’t you?
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work as it broadens GPT-5.6 rollout
OpenAI is sharpening its enterprise AI strategy with the launch of ChatGPT Work, a new agentic platform designed to automate workplace tasks, alongside the broader
The Eval Stack: Proving the agents are right instead of claiming It
Most AI research tools point a language model at the web and trust the output. Saarth Shah built Sixtyfour around the opposite instinct: grade everything
Home robots already walk. 1X’s new hands try to solve the part that actually matters
Humanoid robots learned to walk years ago. The thing still tripping them up is the hand. 1X has given its NEO home robot new hands
Meta Removes A.I. Feature on Instagram After Days of Backlash
Users and Hollywood agencies raised privacy and copyright concerns about the new tool, Muse Image.
The first flights of the US air-taxi program carried organs, not passengers
Beta Technologies has completed the first flights in the US government’s electric air-taxi pilot programme. The Amazon-backed company flew the debut missions of the scheme, CNBC
Europe torched its own rulebook to please business, and business is still unhappy
Twenty months into the EU’s campaign to slash red tape, many of the businesses that demanded it are unimpressed. Firms told Politico the “simplification” drive is too
Linux Mint Now Considers Wayland Stable
Among the mainstream Linux distros, Linux Mint has been an outlier, spending many years easing Cinnamon and its users, into Wayland one careful step at