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Chinese authorities are using a new tool to hack seized phones and...

Security researchers say Chinese authorities are using a new type of malware to extract data from seized phones, allowing them...

Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down...

Elon Musk is a man who named a government agency after a memecoin, designed a robotaxi test network in the...

The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Ventures closes $100M third fund

Mantis Ventures, the venture capital firm co-founded by Alex Pall and Drew Taggart of the electronic DJ group The Chainsmokers,...

Amazon’s Kuiper satellites to get boost from rival SpaceX

Amazon’s race to challenge SpaceX in orbit is getting a helping hand from its chief competitor: SpaceX itself, which will...

US Army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos and extortion

Former U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking telecommunication companies and attempting to extort them by threatening...

A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there

Three weeks ago, an engineer named Calvin French-Owen, who worked on one of OpenAI’s most promising new products, resigned from...

Meta fixes bug that could leak users’ AI prompts and generated content

Meta has fixed a security bug that allowed Meta AI chatbot users to access and view the private prompts and...

AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI

The Venn diagram of engineers that know a little bit about AI, self driving, and mining has a small intersection....

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, officially closed a $2 billion...

Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines

As publishers fret about decreased traffic from Google, the search giant has begun rolling out AI summaries in Discover, the...