The three astronauts from the Shenzhou-20 mission flew to the Tiangong space station in April, and were expected to return on Wednesday The return to Earth of three Chinese astronauts has been delayed until an unspecified date after their spacecraft was apparently struck by a small piece of debris, according to Chinese state media. The … Read more
Amazon accuses Perplexity of covertly accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing Amazon sued a prominent artificial intelligence startup on Tuesday over a shopping feature in the company’s browser, which can automate placing orders for users. Amazon accused Perplexity AI of covertly accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing. … Read more
Before jury selection started Monday, the judge presiding over Sean Charles Dunn’s trial seemed to acknowledge how unusual it is for a case like this to be heard in federal court. Throwing a sandwich at a federal agent turned Sean Charles Dunn into a symbol of resistance against President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the … Read more
The ChatGPT-maker continues to face critics and a lawsuit from Elon Musk after winning over state officials. SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced a major victory on Tuesday, gaining the blessing of the attorneys general in California and Delaware to complete its controversial, multi-billion dollar business restructuring after months of intense public scrutiny. But … Read more
The world’s most valuable company holds a D.C. mega-meeting, and gets political. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang turned his company’s annual artificial intelligence conference into a chance to lavish praise on President Donald Trump on Tuesday. In his keynote remarks at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Huang said Trump “deserves enormous credit” for recognizing the … Read more
The fundraising haul marks strong enthusiasm for experiments aimed at lowering temperatures, said the company. But it also raises questions about commercializing technologies with potentially damaging consequences. A once-outlandish idea for reversing global warming took a major step toward reality Friday when Israeli-U.S. startup Stardust Solutions announced the largest-ever fundraising round for any company that … Read more
Beneath the free-market rhetoric, Washington actually intervenes to control the building blocks of AI systems At first glance, today’s artificial intelligence policy landscape suggests a strategic retreat from regulation. As of late, AI leaders such as the US have doubled down on this messaging. JD Vance champions AI policy with a “deregulatory flavor”. Congress considered … Read more
Adam Raine’s suicide at 16 years old was ‘predictable result of deliberate design choices’ by OpenAI, his family says The family of a teenager who took his own life after months of conversations with ChatGPT now says OpenAI weakened safety guidelines in the months before his death. In July 2022, OpenAI’s guidelines on how ChatGPT … Read more
The world will be pushed into a recession, but perhaps we can build something more promising from the pieces The world economy hinges on the success or failure of artificial intelligence. It’s becoming apparent that we are probably doomed either way. Employment growth is stuck and wage growth is slowing, especially among low-paying jobs. Loan … Read more
AWS explains in a lengthy post how a bug in automation software brought down thousands of sites and applications Amazon has revealed the cause of this week’s hours-long AWS outage, which took everything from Signal to smart beds offline, was a bug in automation software that had widespread consequences. In a lengthy outline of the … Read more