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Chris Stokel-WalkerThe Daily Beast |
Hugging Face has become the industry’s de facto hub for open models. Developers are watching what happens if the dominant AI chipmaker takes control.
A global memory crunch is forcing hardware makers to raise prices, cut components, or both.
A major lawsuit against Meta hit the same week OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens. Why do stronger protections so often arrive only after mass...
The license plate reader company has become a lightning rod for surveillance concerns. But getting rid of Flock doesn’t necessarily get rid of the...
The site’s founder says bots linked to major tech companies drove up his hosting costs and forced him to spend nights learning how to keep them out.
The administration is taking equity stakes in chip, quantum, and AI companies.
The key figures behind DOGE have moved into federal agencies, Republican politics, and a new wave of AI and defense startups.
As American models display increasingly autonomous behavior, officials are focusing on “distillation,” a common industry practice that critics say...
How Fitbit Went From Inc. 5000 Star to a $2.1 Billion Google Acquisition Fitbit started with a simple pixelated flower that rewarded movement. Less...
Thousands of chats, some containing potentially sensitive information, were indexed after users published shareable links that they may not have...
The Chinese model’s rise has ignited a fight over open-source AI and whether Washington should protect America’s frontier labs.
The U.S. risks alienating countries that are uneasy about relying on products controlled by a small number of American AI companies.
Social media has been ablaze with eye-popping demonstrations of the model’s prowess.
CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas warns that frontier models may sharply reduce the time between a software flaw’s discovery and its exploitation,...
Sony’s digital-only PlayStation points to a weaker bargain for consumers.
A new analysis of the creative economy, published in the online repository arXiv and part of a new book, suggests AI-generated content may now account...
As Amazon pushes Rufus and Alexa deeper into online shopping, early data suggests AI is driving sales. But shoppers may be using the tools more to...
A single fake web page might be enough to make an AI system recommend a product that does not exist.
Retail investors reportedly requested $100 billion in shares. But as trading platforms strained under demand, many mom-and-pop buyers were allocated...
Fable is available to subscribers for now. But its upcoming shift to API-only access shows how quickly frontier AI is moving from ‘all you can...
Companies rushed to put AI tools in employees’ hands. Now surprise usage costs are forcing them to ask what all those prompts are actually worth.
Pollsters and market researchers are using synthetic respondents to fill in for real people. Critics worry the practice could turn machine-made...
As frontier AI models get pricier, cheaper and locally hosted alternatives are becoming powerful enough for most users.
A new study found the platform’s recommendation algorithm steers users toward sharply different political content based on inferred gender.
As private messages from Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and other tech leaders spilled into public view, the trial underscored a growing reality of...
Former Spotify employees now run some of Sweden’s most ambitious startups and venture firms, turning the music-streaming giant into the country’s...
The Nvidia CEO’s late addition to Trump’s Beijing delegation underscores how central compute power has become to the two countries’ AI rivalry.
Researchers say generative AI is making it dramatically easier for people to file lawsuits, even as legal professionals are getting caught submitting...
Your AI Is Getting Dumber—and More Expensive. Here’s Why Why your AI subscriptions are getting more expensive and less useful—and how experts...
The tech giant still dominates online advertising, but its aggressive AI push has transformed Google into a sprawling company with competing...
Germany and Sweden are teaming up to fast-track anti-drone technology, creating a new model for European defense innovation.
Two of the world’s most powerful men had to be chided by a judge to be more civil to one another, while violence and brickbats erupt online and...
A new study of frontier models on Kalshi and Polymarket finds consistent losses, even as early signs suggest more autonomous systems could eventually...
From Egypt to Indonesia, developers are building their own models to better reflect local languages and cultures.
OpenAI and Anthropic are reining in high-volume usage as developers and businesses strain limited compute capacity.
New ‘print blocker’ proposals would force printers to scan and reject files, a move opponents say risks privacy and targets the wrong problem.
As breakthroughs in AI, brain-computer interfaces, and aviation accelerate, the real competition is over how much risk each country is willing to...
A $2.4 billion automated factory aims to speed production. The harder question is whether the U.S. can still fix what it builds.
A California court’s ruling on social media addiction could trigger more lawsuits and reshape how we treat platforms.
A Stanford-built system with memory and web access reached out to researchers on its own, offering a glimpse of a more proactive kind of AI.
Michael Hafftka has uploaded thousands of his paintings to Hugging Face, arguing that if AI models are going to learn from artists, they should learn...