More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch brought generative AI into the mainstream, OpenAI is broadening its focus beyond individual users to families. OpenAI is hiring a dedicated product manager in San Francisco to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults across its products.
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Last 44 daysDonald Trump’s Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under the flimsiest of pretenses.
So dancing bugs got upstaged by kpop girls , there’s the whole Bun vs Zig drama , and yesterday’s ChatGPT/Codex superapp launch was bumpier than expected , and the reset button was pressed a couple times to compensate. After buying Statsig and making a big deal out of GPT5’s routing/getting rid of the model picker , the main issue now is that GPT 5.6’s…
Last year, we told you about Xtra , the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a brand seemingly selling DJI drones in disguise . They’re just two of the many firms DJI is suspected of starting to skirt the United States’ foreign drone ban .
Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who was killed by ICE officers in Houston during a traffic stop earlier this week. But DHS claims the agents involved in the shooting weren’t wearing body cameras because of the lengthy government…
The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June , in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet.
Journal of Financial Planning: June 2026 NOTE: Please be aware that the audio version, created with Amazon Polly, may contain mispronunciations. Executive Summary This study evaluated the consistency and fairness of financial recommendations generated by seven widely used GenAI tools across three core areas of household financial planning: emergency…
Meta is in breach of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), a preliminary investigation has found, over the “addictive” design of Instagram and Facebook. It’s likely to be forced to redesign both apps and could face a fine of up to $12 billion.
Last month, Polestar shocked the auto industry when it announced that it was pulling out of the US . The EV company’s decision came after the federal government denied its authorization to continue selling its cars despite a rule banning vehicles with Chinese-made connected vehicle software .
On any other day, the launch of a surprisingly good/competitive Muse Spark 1.1 from Meta Superintelligence Labs, including, for the first time, in the Meta Model API (signaling high confidence for broad usage and third party testing which is bearing out in their sister models ), would deserve title story status, but they had the misfortune of going up…
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Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role, The Wall Street Journal reports .
OpenAI is rolling out its latest advanced LLM, Sol, for wide public access. Sol is considered to be at least on par with Anthropic’s Fable, a model whose capabilities (or ownership) stressed out the White House enough that it was briefly banned from public access.
S ilicon Valley is still riding high on what seems like an unending wave of Wall Street enthusiasm. Investments in artificial intelligence continue to eclipse expectations, with Bloomberg reporting that financiers plan to plow some $700 billion into the industry this year alone.
A few hours after checking into a hotel in New York City, David Streever woke up to a call from the front desk saying someone was looking for him. Streever had just landed on a return trip from Finland, where he’d vacationed with his daughter.
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[Submitted on 7 Jul 2026] Title: TriRoute: Unified Learned Routing for Joint Adaptive Attention, Experts, and KV-Cache Allocation View a PDF of the paper titled TriRoute: Unified Learned Routing for Joint Adaptive Attention, Experts, and KV-Cache Allocation, by Andrii Balashov and Olena Ponomarova View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Conditional…
[Submitted on 7 Jul 2026] Title: Ad Headline Generation using Self-Critical Masked Language Model View a PDF of the paper titled Ad Headline Generation using Self-Critical Masked Language Model, by Yashal Shakti Kanungo and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: For any E-commerce website it is a nontrivial problem to build enduring…
This document outlines the Rust Foundation’s latest perspective on AI’s potential and responsible use in the Rust ecosystem. The views shared in this position statement are those of the Rust Foundation and not necessarily those of Rust Project maintainers/community members.
Brookman explains that the legal barriers companies must clear to collect data directly from consumers are fairly low. The FTC, or state attorneys general, may step in if there are either “unfair” or “deceptive” practices, he notes, but these are narrowly defined: unless a privacy policy specifically says “Hey, we’re not going to let contractors look at…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 6, 2026 CONTACT: Gov.Press@illinois.gov CHICAGO — Today, Governor JB Pritzker signed SB 315, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Measures Act, a landmark legislation establishing the nation's strongest framework for AI safety, transparency, and accountability. The bipartisan law…
Data for Agents Why agentic AI needs open data, and why synthetic data is how we scale it. Image: Nemotron Post-Training v3 Prompt Atlas More Than Model Weights Building AI agents is hard, because the real world does not behave like a benchmark.
Meta’s AI glasses have a growing reputation as a creepy technology . The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording has been tampered with.
For more than a decade, one question has loomed over the race to build autonomous vehicles: Are cameras alone enough to safely replace human drivers, or do truly driverless cars need additional, overlapping sensors like lidar and radar to navigate the world reliably? Tesla has bet billions of dollars that artificial intelligence and cameras are sufficient.