House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel (www.nytimes.com)
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
The executive order comes after a series of non-binding agreements with AI companies....
In a pivotal moment for the autonomous transportation industry, California chose to expand one of the biggest test cases for the technology.
The measure to clamp down on investments in certain industries deemed to pose security risks, set to be issued Wednesday, appears likely to open a new front in the U.S.-China economic conflict....
Sony is now confirming it’s launched a public beta test of PS5 cloud gaming — one that streams games to a PS5 at up to 4K resolution, according to gamers who are now receiving invitations.
The fight for who will own your Thread mesh network is creating an even more fractured smart home.
A significant personnel change is afoot at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence juggernaut that has nearly single-handedly inserted the concept of generative AI into global public discourse with the launch of ChatGPT. Dave Willner, an industry veteran who was the startup’s head of trust and safety, announced in a post on...
Netflix reported substantial growth in subscribers in the months following its push to stop users from sharing accounts with people outside of their household.
Apple is creating its own AI-powered chatbot that some engineers are calling “Apple GPT,” according to a report from Bloomberg. The company reportedly doesn’t have any solid plans to release the technology to the public yet....
Special counsel Jack Smith has informed former President Trump that he is a target in his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, say sources.
Around the time J. Robert Oppenheimer learned that Hiroshima had been struck (alongside everyone else in the world) he began to have profound regrets about his role in the creation of that bomb. At one point when meeting President Truman Oppenheimer wept and expressed that regret. Truman called him a crybaby and said he never...
After multiple years of delays, it looks like the Cybertruck is finally on its way to consumers.
The figure far surpasses what Donald Trump raised, though it is well short of what Mr. Trump and his allies collected during the same period in the 2020 election cycle.
Just a couple of months ago, a leaked memo said to be from a Google researcher cast doubt on the company’s future in AI, stating that it has “no moat” in the industry — and now, we seemingly have confirmation that it was real. In an interview with Decoder, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind, told The Verge...
G/O Media, who owns popular tech site Gizmodo along with a slew of other outlets, began publishing AI-generated articles last week, despite strong objections from many of the members of its staff, according to The Washington Post. The articles are all credited to various bots — Gizmodo Bot, for example — with no other...
People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.
OpenAI is forming a dedicated team to manage the risks of superintelligent AI....
Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.
The order came in a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who claim the administration is trying to silence its critics....
Eight Chinese aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday morning, an unofficial barrier between the two sides, Taiwan's defence ministry said, as China ramps up military pressure on the democratic island.
Twitter's API issues have frustrated developers in each of Twitter's new API access tiers. Those with Basic or Pro plans — paying $100 and $5000 a month for API access, respectively — have experienced unannounced changes to their plans, numerous bugs, and often receive zero customer support. And developers shelling out for...
Initial hopes of 1 million shipments in 2024 dashed by manufacturing problems....
Logged in a few minutes ago and noticed that reputation in my account was much higher then before. Guessing it might be counted now.
Conservative groups and legal experts said the private sector should brace for challenges.