‘Human Made’: Artists Push Back on A.I. Dolls and Action Figures

This week, the actress Brooke Shields posted an image of an action-figure version of herself that…

Former Tesla supply chain leaders create Atomic, an AI inventory solution

Tesla famously struggled to scale up production of the Model 3 sedan in 2018 — so…

OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding

OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to…

An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots

Lapeyre says that selling humanoid robots remains challenging because the use cases are unclear and the…

Trump Wants to Reverse Coal’s Long Decline. It Won’t be Easy.

President Trump last week issued executive orders designed to revive the use of coal in power…

What’s Wrong With Apple? – The New York Times

Even before President Trump’s tariffs threatened to upend Apple’s manufacturing business in China, the company’s struggle…

Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages

All of the 400 exposed AI systems found by UpGuard have one thing in common: They…

Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military

“We still need to validate the sources,” says Lowdon. But the unit’s commanders encouraged the use…

How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse

The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and,…

The AI Agent Era Requires a New Kind of Game Theory

At the same time, the risk is immediate and present with agents. When models are not…

Why a Plane-Size Machine Could Foil a Race to Build Gas Power Plants

To hear Trump administration officials and many energy executives tell it, the United States is on…

The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US

Stanford’s report shows Chinese AI is on the rise overall, with models from Chinese companies scoring…

This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence

Executives at artificial intelligence companies may like to tell us that AGI is almost here, but…

How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul

For decades, Larry Ellison reveled in being the Silicon Valley executive who really knew how to…

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’

Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For…

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer

Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open weight artificial intelligence model in the…

Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning…

Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there

This all means it’s up to the tech companies themselves to act on their own initiative.…

Amazon’s AGI Lab Reveals Its First Work: Advanced AI Agents

Amazon is still seen as a bit of a laggard in the race to develop advanced…

How to switch off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Apple released new software updates on Monday, including iOS 18.3, which automatically opts users into Apple…

Isomorphic Labs, Google’s A.I. Drug Business, Raises Money From Thrive

Over the last 12 months, Google’s efforts to use artificial intelligence to accelerate drug design have…

Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is Stealing the Name ‘Grok’

Elon Musk’s xAI is facing a potential trademark dispute over the name of its chatbot, Grok.…