A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company this week said Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company. Jan Leike, who ran OpenAI’s “Super Alignment” team alongside a company co-founder who also resigned this week, wrote in a series of posts on the social media […]
Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government’s highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents posted on its website Monday it will evaluate the automated driving system developed by Zoox. Both crashes involved Toyota Highlander […]
Big Tech giant Google has been found recording people’s voices without their knowledge to help send them ads — and the recordings are stored for data collection. Do you use verbal apps such as Siri and Alexa? Do you find that the ads showing up as you use the internet are oddly specific to your […]
In a move prompting all manner of outcry and consternation, Microsoft told its staff last week that several studios of Xbox (which the tech titan owns) would be shuttering. In short, while some talent may be re-dispersed within the Xbox first-party studio ecosphere, many staffers have been let go altogether amid those studio closures. Notably, […]
The concept of floating solar power is taking on water after a storm knocked a new Indian project offline only a few days after it began operations. What has been described as the world’s largest floating solar plant at Omkareshwar Dam was badly damaged when a storm hit in mid-April. Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation said […]
A seagoing vessel or aircraft approaching a warship of the U.S. — or any nation, for that matter — must identify itself or face what could be lethal consequences. Conventional spycraft take time to reach their target and can be immobilized before breaching a ship’s security. But what about a drone, quickly zipping above and […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced last week the successful completion of a number of tests of a new drone prototype that might just change sea warfare as we know it. Called the Manta Ray because of its shape, the uncrewed underwater vehicle is currently under development by DARPA and Northrop Grumman. On May […]
Dystopia, thy name is Apple. Or at least, that seemed to be the motivating principle behind the company’s deeply unsettling new ad. As initially shared by Apple CEO Tim Cook on the social media platform X, the ad for the new iPad Pro has been generating much well-deserved backlash all across X. Meet the new […]
The House on Tuesday passed a bill designed to ensure that any new energy efficiency standards promulgated by the U.S. Department of Energy be based on available technology and economic reality, according to a media release from the bill’s sponsor. Rep. Debbie Lesko’s office said that the bill passed with bi-partisan support. “I am saddened […]
The roots of the Capitol incursion lie in the deep, dark depths of Facebook’s algorithms, according to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who is currently working on a script to bring his vision to the big screen. Sorkin wrote “The Social Network,” a 2010 hit about the founding of Facebook. His concepts for another look at the […]
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