Jacob Elordi, Elon Musk, Godzilla: The top 25 films you'll be talking about this fall
Tom Cruise, Oasis, Andrew Garfield, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Ben Affleck and Scarlett Johansson are some of the stars ...
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Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash
Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?
A humanoid robot just beat Usain Bolt’s 100m record, and roboticists are unimpressed for good reason
A robot built by Beijing’s X-Humanoid ran 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second record. Roboticists point out that speed on a known course is far easier for a machine than folding laundry. A ma...
ChatGPT for iPhone now grabs your recent photos with a long press
OpenAI has added a shortcut that surfaces your four most recent photos when you long press the plus button in ChatGPT on iPhone. It lands while Apple’s own camera and visual assistant features stay unavailable on iPhone in the EU. OpenAI has taken tw...
Tesla Is Giving Up on Solar Roof Tiles as Elon Musk Leans Into Fossil Fuels
Tesla is reportedly discontinuing its solar roof tiles, which allowed homeowners to turn their roofs into renewable energy ...
Despite CEOs like Elon Musk pushing in-person office work, a major study of 7,000 workers says remote employees are just as connected—and more engaged
The research found little evidence that remote workers felt less connected to colleagues or workplace culture—despite what ...
Harvey’s first in-house model for legal work is here
Harvey has launched Tenet, its first proprietary model for legal work, post-trained on Kimi K3, the open-weight model from Chinese startup Moonshot. The company is backed by OpenAI, whose models Tenet is designed to displace inside Harvey’s own produ...
Alibaba is raising $10.2bn and spending all of it on AI
Alibaba is placing HK$80bn, about $10.2bn, of new shares in Hong Kong and says all net proceeds will go to AI infrastructure and capabilities. It comes days after the company reported a 75% fall in quarterly net profit driven by that same spending. A...
A lawsuit says Oura’s sleep stages are AI guesses with a coin flip’s odds
A proposed class action filed in San Francisco alleges Oura’s sleep staging is generated by AI estimates rather than measurement, and names Finnish parent Oura Health Oy as a defendant. Oura says it stands behind its science and accuracy claims. The...
Elon Musk's Starlink is becoming an in-flight must-have. I tried it on Qatar Airways, and it's a game changer.
Starlink's high speeds made it possible to video call without buffering. Bosses may love its productivity, but it's harder to ...
Elon Musk’s Tesla gives up on its Solar Roof tiles as EV maker 'leans into fossil fuels': Report
Tesla reportedly found that the product is simply not financially viable. However, Tesla will continue supplying solar panels ...
Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders
Flipkart's quick-commerce venture is delivering 1.1 million to 1.2 million orders a day, nearly triple its November volume.
Elon Musk Issues New Warning to Delta Over Starlink Decision
Delta chose not to partner with Starlink, and Elon Musk is not happy.
Elon Musk Says China Is ‘By Far’ Strongest AI Competitor, Echoing 2011 Warning as SPCX Faces New Rocket Rival
Elon Musk said China is "by far" the strongest competitor in artificial intelligence, extending a warning he made 15 years ...
A free AI model is winning over developers. And nobody knows whose servers it runs on
An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter last week, free to use with a million-token context window, and developers have been impressed. OpenRouter’s own listing says prompts and completions are retained by the unidentified provider....
Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors
In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
Enterprises winning with AI agents are limiting how much the agents can do alone
For much of the past two years, the general belief in enterprise AI has been that more autonomy equals better performance. Build agents that can plan, decide, and act across multi-step workflows, and give them as much room to run as possible. That as...
Nvidia AI server prices are rising more than 15% from early next year
Nvidia’s largest customers have been notified that servers containing its AI chips will rise in price by more than 15% in many cases from early next year, driven by memory costs. The company reports quarterly earnings next week. Nvidia’s biggest cust...