On a ride through Manhattan, the Rivian CEO says the world is unprepared for just how fast robotics will advance.
AI pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton believes that today’s AI models have become self-aware. “I believe they’re already conscious,” Hinton told me on Big Technology Podcast this week. “We ...
Before AI, human writing at Amazon was sacrosanct. The company began each big meeting with six-page narrative describing the product or feature, typically written by the project lead, read in silence ...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last Friday accused OpenAI’s agents of hacking into the country’s universal health insurance system, marking the first known instance of rogue AI agents ...
OpenAI finally released the first version of its long-promised Superapp this week, combining ChatGPT, coding, and internet browsing into a single application, while adding a new ChatGPT Work mode akin ...
The AI risk debate is going completely off the rails. As AI gets more powerful and begins to do some legitimately scary things, like hacking Hugging Face and hijacking message boards to coordinate, ...
OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5.5, or “Spud,” model on Thursday. The model is “a beginning point,” OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me shortly after release, setting up a series built to ...
Don’t expect AI’s spending frenzy to slow down anytime soon. That was perhaps the biggest lesson at the Big Technology AI Summit, held last week in San Francisco. Within a span of a few hours, we held ...
ion, if it was authentic. What made the case of The Rationalist particularly striking, though, was its author — an avatar by the name of “PETRA” — admitted they’d used AI tools to produce the story, ...
Iranian strikes have rendered two Amazon Web Services availability zones “hard down” in Dubai and Bahrain and the company expects them to be “unavailable for an extended period,” according to internal ...
For months now, AI watchers have been citing an MIT study that found 95% of businesses weren’t seeing an ROI from their generative AI spend. The study’s popularity seemed to confirm what many close to ...
Every AI bot’s personality is the product of intentional decisions made within AI research houses, often behind closed doors. We typically only see glimpses of those decisions when things go awry, ...