Artificial intelligence and humans face off in the battle for cyber security
On a recent Friday morning, seven cybersecurity veterans gathered in a suite on the 60th floor of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. Surrounded by…
China sought access to the latest AI Anthropic The answer was No.
A representative of a Chinese think tank approached Anthropic officials at a meeting in Singapore last month to insist that the company change its stance…
China pushes for AI independence, weakens Trump’s influence
When Chinese start-up DeepSeek released its latest artificial intelligence model last month, it moved Beijing closer to the future it has been trying to build…
EBay Rejects GameStop’s $55 Billion Takeover Offer
Online marketplace eBay on Tuesday rejected GameStop’s proposal to combine the two companies in a cash and stock deal worth about $55 billion, calling it…
Start-up raises $1.3 billion for AI ‘Grid’
The world’s leading AI companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the computing data centers needed to create AI. Tech giants like Amazon…
Wrongful death lawsuits against OpenAI are testing a new strategy
Sam Nelson started using ChatGPT when he was in high school to answer random questions and help with homework. During his freshman year at the…
Instruct Strikes Deal for Hackers to Return Canvas Data
The maker of Canvas software, used by thousands of schools and universities around the world, said Monday it has reached an agreement with hackers who…
Microsoft CEO stepped in when OpenAI fired Sam Altman, Musk’s lawyer claims
In February 2018, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, sent an email to Satya Nadel, CEO of Microsoft. Elon Musk was leaving a fledgling artificial intelligence…
Google says criminal hackers used AI to find major software bug
A criminal hacking group recently attempted to launch a large-scale cyberattack that appeared to depend on artificial intelligence to detect a previously unknown bug, Google…
Inside the Elon Musk-OpenAI Trial Courtroom
Most of what we see of Elon Musk and Sam Altman, the two most powerful men in Silicon Valley, comes in the form of carefully…
Meta’s adoption of artificial intelligence is making its employees unhappy
In an internal memo last month, Meta told its US employees it was making a change that would affect tens of thousands of them. What…
Can the US dominate the prediction markets? + Joanna Stern on her year of experiments with artificial intelligence + Our producer goes to the school of attention
This week we look again at prediction markets and a new series of scandals. Is Congress finally ready to rein them in? Then journalist Joanna…
Hopelessness ‘The Audacity’
In AMC’s merciless satire, tech lords squeeze everything they can out of business (and us) before it all goes to hell.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to invest $55 billion in the production of AI chips
The scope of Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to build a giant computer chip factory in Texas is becoming clear — and it’s staggering. The first…
Five ways AI search outperforms classic Google search
When Google added a new button to search the web using generative artificial intelligence, the feature debuted with such glaring flaws, like a tendency to…
Anthropic’s CEO says it could grow 80 times this year
Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, said on Wednesday that his artificial intelligence company had planned to grow about 10 times this year, only to…
Elon Musk’s confidante Shivon Zilis is cast as his inside source on OpenAI
After Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI in early 2023, Elon Musk said in a social media post that OpenAI is “control effectively” from the…
Meditate or reboot? A robot Buddhist monk is coming to Korea.
Gabi led a procession of chanting Buddhist monks to Jogye Temple in Seoul on Wednesday. Wearing a ceremonial taupe robe, black shoes, a rosary and…
