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Chris Stokel-WalkerThe Daily Beast |
With victories in Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, Democrats could reshape the legal battles determining the industry’s future.
A malicious extension on Cursor’s marketplace attempted to give hackers persistent access to developers’ computers, raising concerns about the...
Big bubble or permanently transformative technology? An eye-popping IPO suggests we’re about to find out.
Silicon Valley’s biggest names are making eye-watering philanthropic pledges, raising questions about their motivations and how much money will...
After years of being nickel-and-dimed by tech companies, consumers are using AI to break their rules and circumvent restrictions.
Amazon and Google have been selling smart displays for years. But Apple is betting that its familiar combination of sleek design and clever...
President Trump’s obsession with rebranding artificial intelligence is drudging up a decades-long debate about how to best describe the technology.
The president has to tread a fine line among competing factions as he pursues American AI supremacy. Can he pull it off?
New research finds that popular AI agents can alter or delete their own activity logs, making it much harder to figure out what happened when...
Project Suncatcher is sending AI hardware into orbit. The technical hurdles are enormous, but researchers say the economics may eventually make sense.
Elite knowledge workers explain how training AI models for the likes of Turing and Mercor is the most exciting intellectual challenge of their...
America.gov can help users navigate federal websites and find services. The harder problem is making those services themselves easier to use.
A growing number of lawsuits argue that chatbot makers should be held responsible not just for their outputs, but for how their products are designed.
The contrast between the two countries’ public AI agendas says a lot about the larger fight over who gets to shape the technology’s future.
As models act more autonomously, a growing group of researchers wants independent experts to investigate when they go off the rails.
Hugging Face has become the industry’s de facto hub for open models. Developers are watching what happens if the dominant AI chipmaker takes control.
A global memory crunch is forcing hardware makers to raise prices, cut components, or both.
A major lawsuit against Meta hit the same week OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens. Why do stronger protections so often arrive only after mass...
The license plate reader company has become a lightning rod for surveillance concerns. But getting rid of Flock doesn’t necessarily get rid of the...
The site’s founder says bots linked to major tech companies drove up his hosting costs and forced him to spend nights learning how to keep them out.
The administration is taking equity stakes in chip, quantum, and AI companies.
The key figures behind DOGE have moved into federal agencies, Republican politics, and a new wave of AI and defense startups.
As American models display increasingly autonomous behavior, officials are focusing on “distillation,” a common industry practice that critics say...
How Fitbit Went From Inc. 5000 Star to a $2.1 Billion Google Acquisition Fitbit started with a simple pixelated flower that rewarded movement. Less...
Thousands of chats, some containing potentially sensitive information, were indexed after users published shareable links that they may not have...
The Chinese model’s rise has ignited a fight over open-source AI and whether Washington should protect America’s frontier labs.
The U.S. risks alienating countries that are uneasy about relying on products controlled by a small number of American AI companies.
Social media has been ablaze with eye-popping demonstrations of the model’s prowess.
CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas warns that frontier models may sharply reduce the time between a software flaw’s discovery and its exploitation,...
Sony’s digital-only PlayStation points to a weaker bargain for consumers.
A new analysis of the creative economy, published in the online repository arXiv and part of a new book, suggests AI-generated content may now account...
As Amazon pushes Rufus and Alexa deeper into online shopping, early data suggests AI is driving sales. But shoppers may be using the tools more to...
A single fake web page might be enough to make an AI system recommend a product that does not exist.
Retail investors reportedly requested $100 billion in shares. But as trading platforms strained under demand, many mom-and-pop buyers were allocated...
Fable is available to subscribers for now. But its upcoming shift to API-only access shows how quickly frontier AI is moving from ‘all you can...
Companies rushed to put AI tools in employees’ hands. Now surprise usage costs are forcing them to ask what all those prompts are actually worth.
Pollsters and market researchers are using synthetic respondents to fill in for real people. Critics worry the practice could turn machine-made...
As frontier AI models get pricier, cheaper and locally hosted alternatives are becoming powerful enough for most users.
A new study found the platform’s recommendation algorithm steers users toward sharply different political content based on inferred gender.
As private messages from Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and other tech leaders spilled into public view, the trial underscored a growing reality of...
Former Spotify employees now run some of Sweden’s most ambitious startups and venture firms, turning the music-streaming giant into the country’s...
The Nvidia CEO’s late addition to Trump’s Beijing delegation underscores how central compute power has become to the two countries’ AI rivalry.