Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable
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Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT’s Responses When You’re Cruel To It
From a young age, many children have been instructed by their parents to be polite to smart assistants.…
5 AI Devices That Just Made Smartphones Look Obsolete in 2026
The year 2026 marks a historic pivot in personal technology. We are moving past the era of the…
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | AI (artificial intelligence)
I am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our…
Lego’s latest educational kit seeks to teach AI as part of computer science, not to build a chatbot
Last week at CES, Lego introduced its new Smart Play system, with a tech-packed Smart Brick that can…
“This is no longer just a crack in Nvidia’s hegemony, but an entire pipeline, and we
On a winter day in 2018, Sergey Brin, one of Google’s co-founders, invited Ofer Shacham for a personal…
Taiwan aims to be strategic AI partner in US tariff deal
By Wen-Yee Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Taiwan aims to become a close strategic…
Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026
New York  — With our homes and lives swarming with AI-powered devices, assistants and chatbots, a backlash is…
A new family of open translation models
Today, we’re introducing TranslateGemma, a new collection of open translation models built on Gemma 3, available in 4B,…
ChatGPT to start showing users ads based on their conversations
New York  — ChatGPT may soon serve up ads for products it thinks you’d like to buy. OpenAI…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to engineers: I want you to stop coding and start…
Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang aims for engineers to code zero percent, leveraging AI assistants like Cursor to tackle…
Canadian billionaire Kevin O’Leary has a warning for America on China: Your big problem is that you have no … |
Kevin O’Leary, a prominent Canadian investor, voices a concerning warning about the AI surge in America: it’s on…