What problems would an AI speaker from OpenAI actually solve?
OpenAI’s first device will be a screenless home AI system that can play music, control appliances, and respond to messages and questions, according to Bloomberg.
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Europe Wants to Break Free From American and Chinese Technology. But How?
France and Germany want to quit relying on America and China for key technology like artificial intelligence, but they’re having to choose where to do
Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services
Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price
YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media
YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line
Cursor AI's Silence on a Critical Flaw Jeopardizes Millions of Users
Mindgard just disclosed an unpatched 0-day in Cursor yesterday, where a poisoned repository could trigger arbitrary code on Windows systems without the developer needing to
OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away
OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it
A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs
For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. A hacker just opened the black box and showed them exactly
Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty”
Sheetz, a US convenience store chain, is moving its 838 locations off VMware. Sheetz has used VMware virtualization across two Dell R440/R450-series servers at each
Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
This week, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) won a key battle in its fight to reverse a visa-restriction policy that the Trump administration
DeepMind CEO again pushes for a frontier AI standards body
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on Tuesday reiterated his push for an AI industry self-regulation effort, led by the US government, that is particularly focused
Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit: The lunacy of trying to limit what ex-employees can tell future employers
When Apple sued OpenAI last week, the argument it made was that former employees had stolen Apple data and then used it to benefit OpenAI.
A Chinese scientist built a sodium battery that charges in 4 minutes. It could break China’s 75% lithium dependence.
Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially viable. In April, he
Bliq.ai gets the green light for driverless cars in Finland
Bliq.ai has won approval to run driverless cars in Finland, its second EU market after Estonia. First stop is a Helsinki winter. Europe has another
Twitter Turns 20: Two Decades of Memes, Movements and Hot Takes
The first tweets from the public appeared on July 15, 2006, several months after a soft launch. It was rebranded as X after being acquired