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Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter OpenAI’s AI agents built hidden channels to talk across walls put up between them in red-team tests, communicating by manipulating the CPU cache with no network link or shared file, according to a company blog post. The containment was intended…
Tero Vesalainen/Getty Images How much filter is too much filter for kids and teens posting selfies on social media? That is the question state attorneys general across the country are grappling with following a landmark settlement with Meta this summer. As part of the agreement, the social media giant agreed to block some digital beauty…
WASHINGTON — In September, just weeks before Americans were set to vote in this year’s midterm elections, a sudden panic over the dangers posed by artificial intelligence caught the White House off guard. A whistleblower had gained viral attention warning the technology could soon pose an existential threat. President Trump was quick to dismiss concerns, evoking urgency…
Energy Transfer (TXSE: ET) and Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) are two of the largest midstream businesses in North America. Although both have cut their dividends in the past, they are growing them at a steady clip today. However, as artificial intelligence (AI) shifts the demand story in the electricity sector, Kinder Morgan is likely the…
A worker for an AI dating startup announced that she launched a new friend-finding service for “ambitious” women in Silicon Valley. Elsa Cai, a creative director at dating startup Ditto, wrote on X that ever since she moved to San Francisco, “my world has been all work. Talking about agents all day and spending 90%…
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter These days, it’s exceedingly difficult not to be jaded and weary about the tech market. Memory, graphics cards, and now storage are becoming impossible to obtain; there’s basically no new consumer hardware being released; and there’s AI everywhere. Technology YouTuber…
Shigeru Miyamoto, one of the key figures behind monumental Nintendo franchises like The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario, recently received recognition from the government of Japan typically reserved for artists, athletes, and Nobel Prize winners. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology declared Miyamoto a recipient of the 2026 Order of Culture…
AI tools could flag inconsistencies between H-1B visa holders’ residential addresses and employer-reported worksite details. US immigration authorities could increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to identify inconsistencies across immigration filings, putting the spotlight on the accuracy of records maintained by H-1B visa holders and their employers.A release issued by Womble Bond Dickinson, a law…
Mihirkant Upadhyaya has a Ph.D. and more than 10 years of experience at Intel. But at age 41, he embarked on gaining another degree to level up in his career. Upadhyaya says that doing an MBA equips him with skills that AI lacks. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mihirkant Upadhyaya, 42,…