Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder who departed from the company last month, unveiled a new AI firm focused on developing "a safe superintelligence."
Why it matters: Sutskever was among the OpenAI board members who voted to fire CEO Sam Altman last November amid concerns over communication, and trust.
An animal-like uncrewed underwater vehicle dubbed Manta Ray can be seen maneuvering off the California coast in new footage captured during testing.
Why it matters: Sea drones are reshaping naval combat — especially in Eastern Europe, where Ukrainian forces are sinking prized Russian ships using far smaller and cheaper tech.
A warning label on social media could be as easy to ignore as an explicit music lyric notice.
Why it matters: The U.S. Surgeon General's recent call for a tobacco-style warning on social media platforms falls flat, some tech researchers and writers argue.
As the leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world's largest crypto exchange by volume, Binance has gone above and beyond industry standards to ensure its user protections match its scale.
Why it's important: The mass adoptionof crypto could be on the horizon as more people understand its use cases.
The Los Angeles Unified School District voted 5 to 2 on Tuesday to ban cellphone and social media use for its more than 429,000 students during the school day.
Why it matters: The nation's second-largest school district is joining others in cracking down on students' access to cellphones and social media through updated school policies over fears that the devices distract them from learning and affect their social development.
Your smartphone may be feeling the summer heat just as much as you, especially during the record-breaking heat wave overtaking much of the U.S. this week.
Why it matters: Extreme heat, in addition to being a public health threat and an economic blow, could damage your phone.
Forbes sent a letter to the CEO of AI search startup Perplexity accusing the company of stealing text and images in a "willful infringement" of Forbes' copyright rights, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Axios.
Why it matters: Publishers fighting to protect their intellectual property are stuck in a game of whack-a-mole as they confront not just the biggest AI companies, like OpenAI or Google, but also smaller AI startups.
Adobe on Tuesday updated its terms of service to make explicit that it won't train AI systems using customer data.
Why it matters: The move follows an uproar over largely unrelated changes Adobe made in recent days to its terms of service — which contained wording that some customers feared was granting Adobe broad rights to customer content.
As the Biden administration expands its cybersecurity agenda, the State Department has been playing a more active role in bringing the private sector along for the ride.
Why it matters: Cyber diplomacy has been a major priority at the State Department during the Biden administration as nation-state hackers target U.S. critical infrastructure and criminal gangs recruit hackers from across borders.
The advancements in artificial intelligence that brought us AI chatbots and image generators are now fueling a fresh approach to self-driving cars.
Why it matters: Autonomous vehicle (AV) development is essentially stuck — it's still too difficult and expensive to scale up the technology into a profitable business.
The advancements in artificial intelligence that brought us AI chatbots and image generators are now fueling a fresh approach to self-driving cars.
Why it matters: Autonomous vehicle (AV) development is essentially stuck — it's still too difficult and expensive to scale up the technology into a profitable business.
The leading AI chatbots are regurgitating Russian misinformation, according to a NewsGuard report shared first with Axios.
Why it matters: Users turning to chatbots for reliable information and quick answers to all their questions are finding that AI can also offer disinformation, satire and fiction as fact.
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