Google announces a photo editor redesign coming to both Android and iOS. Google Photos is 10 years old, and the search giant celebrated the milestone with a blog post announcing…
A California-based company called Magrathea just turned on a new electrolyzer that can make magnesium metal from seawater. The technology has the potential to produce the material, which is used…
In April, Paul Graham, the founder of the tech startup accelerator Y Combinator, sent a tweet in response to former YC president and current OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Altman had…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI: The power and the pride…
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of…
Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the sea, and under the water—all armed with explosive warheads or small missiles. These machines descend in…
It’s been a little over a week since we published Power Hungry, a package that takes a hard look at the expected energy demands of AI. Last week in this…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This giant microwave may change the…
Back in April, OpenAIannounced it was rolling back an update to its GPT-4o model that made ChatGPT’s responses to user queries too sycophantic. An AI model that acts in an…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how…
From large language models (LLMs) to reasoning agents, today’s AI tools bring unprecedented computational demands. Trillion-parameter models, workloads running on-device, and swarms of agents collaborating to complete tasks all require…
The new One UI 8 software will debut on Samsung’s newest foldables this summer, but you can give it a whirl now with some S25 devices. Samsung opened its One…
The unknown database has been removed from access to the public. But the damage may already be done. You might have seen the news of a database leak containing 184…
Apple’s latest iPhone update brings these new and useful features to your phone. Apple released iOS 18 on Sept. 16, a week after the company announced its new iPhone 16…
Sam Altman is calling out ChatGPT’s personality as “too sycophant-y and annoying.” If it feels like ChatGPT is laying on the flattery a little thick, you’re not the only one…
