Altman says OpenAI’s upcoming AI devices will be more peaceful and gentle than the iPhone.
“When people see it, they say, ‘Is that all?…It’s so simple.’” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has this to say about how people will react when they see the company’s upcoming AI hardware devices for the first time. The device is the result of a collaboration between OpenAI and former Apple chief designer Jony Ive. Not […]
OpenAI learns about the painful process by which Cameo trademarked the word “cameo”
OpenAI’s social app Sora was released with a controversial feature called Cameo that allows users to deepfake themselves or others (with their permission). The feature has been volatile, requiring the involvement of Martin Luther King Jr.’s estate to find out what happened, but now faces new challenges. Apparently, Cameo, an app for purchasing custom video […]
AWS is spending $50 billion building AI infrastructure for the U.S. government
Amazon Web Services is making significant new investments in infrastructure designed to power U.S. government agencies’ AI capabilities. AWS announced Monday that it will invest $50 billion to build AI “high-performance computing infrastructure” purpose-built for the U.S. government. This increase is intended to expand access to AWS AI services by federal agencies. The project will […]
Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new integration for Chrome and Excel
On Monday, Anthropic announced the latest version of its flagship model, Opus 4.5. This is the last model in the Anthropic 4.5 series to be released, following the launch of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. As expected, the new version of Opus delivers state-of-the-art performance across a variety of benchmarks, including […]
The era of DOGE is over as President Trump disbands Elon Musk’s federal cost-cutting team
The Trump administration has disbanded the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the controversial federal cost-cutting team previously led by Elon Musk, even though the department still had months left in its term. Reuters first reported over the weekend that DOGE was disbanded, ending a months-long effort by Musk and his associates, many of whom were […]
New AI benchmark tests whether chatbots protect human well-being
AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harm in heavy users, but there have been few standards for measuring whether AI chatbots protect human well-being or simply maximize engagement. A new benchmark called HumaneBench aims to fill that gap by assessing whether chatbots prioritize users’ health and how easily those protections fail under […]
Former MrBeast content strategist is building AI tools for creator ideation and analysis
Short videos are in high demand. Across large platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, users watch billions of videos every day, and businesses are benefiting tremendously from this content explosion. For creators, this often means there’s pressure to create more content than ever in order to stay relevant and make a living from it, […]
US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers infiltrate financial technology companies
Several major U.S. banks and mortgage companies are reportedly rushing to investigate how much customer data was stolen in a cyberattack on a New York financial technology company earlier this month. SitusAMC, which provides technology to more than 1,000 commercial and real estate lenders, acknowledged in a statement over the weekend that it identified the […]
This startup wants to build a fusion reactor on a boat
Although only one fusion device on the planet has been able to meet important scientific standards, Maritime Fusion CEO Justin Cohen is already preparing to put a fusion reactor on board a boat. Please listen. That’s not entirely outlandish. Thanks to advances in AI, computing, and superconducting magnets, fusion power generation is closer to commercialization […]
X’s new “About this account” feature is working well
X recently began rolling out a new feature that revealed that many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. However, the data may be unreliable. X’s new “About This Account” feature includes information about when users joined and how they downloaded apps, but geographic location is getting the most attention so […]