Nvidia’s announcement that it’s getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips can perform incredibly well while also delivering great battery life – at least on the Mac. In the Windows world, performance hasn’t fully matched up under Qualcomm chips, mostly in the […]
Google’s new “24/7” AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I’m not sure it’s worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs. The company gave me access to Spark last week. Google advertises Spark as an AI agent that can take on tasks and work on them […]
Meta’s AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta’s chatbot to switch the email associated with someone else’s profile and then reset the password. The issue, which Meta says has […]
Several users on social media reported having their Instagram accounts hacked over the weekend. Meta’s own support chatbot was blamed for allowing hackers to hijack accounts.
The company says it needs “significant” water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.
After months of speculation about whether OpenAI or Anthropic would be first in their race to IPO, Anthropic on Monday reached a key milestone: filing to kick off the process with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing sets the stage for what’s sure to be a massive IPO. As of its fundraise last […]
Windborne Systems’ newest weather forecasting model beats the best government predictions by days.
Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches ‘no AI’ web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.
Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I’ve been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it the Professional Developers Conference, and I can’t remember a more pivotal moment. As Microsoft continues to reshuffle its entire business around AI, it’s moving Build […]
