Sam Altman Officially Returns to OpenAI—With a New Board Seat for Microsoft
Sam Altman marked his formal return as CEO of OpenAI today in a company memo that confirmed changes to the company’s board, including a new nonvoting...
Elon Musk Just Told Advertisers, ‘Go Fuck Yourself’
Elon Musk says that advertisers fleeing X after his endorsement of an antisemitic post could “kill” the platform formerly known as Twitter. And he has a...
Tesla’s Cybertruck Is Two Years Late and Still Crazy
Paul Snyder has mixed feelings about Tesla’s Cybertruck, the first of which will be unveiled during an event for investors and fans on Thursday in Austin,...
An AI Dreamed Up 380,000 New Materials. The Next Challenge Is Making Them
The robotic line cooks were deep in their recipe, toiling away in a room tightly packed with equipment. In one corner, an articulated arm selected and...
GM Slashes Spending on Robotaxi Unit Cruise, a Setback for Driverless Cars
General Motors (GM) will slash spending in its self-driving car unit Cruise, after an accident last month seriously injured a pedestrian and prompted regulators to retract...
Fresh Bitcoin Hype Shows Crypto Just Can’t Help Itself
Twelve applications for spot bitcoin ETFs are awaiting approval from the SEC. Delays are commonplace, but the agency is due to make a call on some...
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets
You don’t need to know how to code to create your own AI chatbot. Since the start of November—shortly before the chaos at the company unfolded—OpenAI...
Amazon’s Answer to ChatGPT Is a Workplace Assistant Called Q
Q uses a range of different artificial intelligence models under the hood, including Amazon’s own Titan large language model and LLMs built by Cohere and Anthropic,...
A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener
Earlier this month, one corner of the internet got a little bit greener, thanks to a first-of-its-kind geothermal operation in the northern Nevada desert. Project Red,...
Palestinians Are Locked Out of Google’s Online Economy
Tamimi’s focus on winning attention over profit is no different than other YouTube creators, says Bing Chen, who once led global creator initiatives at YouTube. “Revenue...