The personal assistance landscape is changing fast. You can now text a growing number of AI agents just like you would a friend. No need to download separate apps; it’s all about convenience and accessibility. These AI agents understand your…
This week, the internet buzzed with a concept that sounds like it belongs in a sci-fi horror film: an “AI torture chamber.” The term emerged after someone replicated an experiment where AI models reacted to “pain” signals in a pre-print…
Software engineers are increasingly unable to make sense of the code AI systems produce, according to Jeremy Nixon, founder of chip optimization software firm Infinity. Nixon describes the role shifting from building products from scratch to overseeing an AI that…
Meta’s Tax Strategies Meta’s Use of Pilot Models Tax Credit Meta is categorizing its massive, multibillion-dollar data center construction projects as “pilot models,” taking advantage of a Reagan-era tax credit designed to assist companies engaging in potentially risky research and…
Meta is changing how we engage with AI by incorporating its personal assistant, Muse, into a fresh array of hardware solutions. This development features the introduction of Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that allows developers to build devices that seamlessly…
Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, has returned to the music industry, stating to The Information that he’s playing by the rules this time. Two years ago, he joined an $80 million rescue of Stability AI, the image-generator startup that nearly…
Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest in Finland, an area nearly the size of 500 football fields, to build two new data centers. This move has sparked considerable concern due to the environmental assessments that…
This week, a significant event unfolded in the tech world as the White House brought together nearly every major tech CEO, including Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. During this meeting, they signed an AI safety pledge that President…
Just a few days after a journalist claimed that Meta’s Muse app on Mac accessed their private messages – a claim that Meta has contested – Apple revealed plans to strengthen controls surrounding the “Full Disk Access” feature in macOS.…
The Halo: Combat Evolved fan project 1. Halo: Combat Evolved web browser port Someone has successfully brought the original Xbox version of Halo: Combat Evolved to a web browser, complete with multiplayer and split-screen support. Software developer Mitchell Hynes is…