“The mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.” It’s no secret that much of social media has become profoundly dysfunctional. Rather than bringing us together into one utopian public square and fostering a healthy exchange of ideas, these platforms too often create filter…
After unpopular GPT-5 launch, OpenAI begins restoring optional access to previous AI models. On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that GPT-4o has returned to ChatGPT following intense user backlash over its removal during last week’s GPT-5 launch. The AI model now appears in the model picker for all…
Mercedes is debuting its next electric van at Monterey Car Week. An orange tint of smoke in the air always contributes to dramatic lighting for sunrise photos in Los Angeles. But this early in the fire season, the coloring serves as an inescapable reminder of greenhouse gas emissions and…
Sam Altman says we could soon have “high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces.” OpenAI and its cofounder Sam Altman are preparing to back a company that will compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink by connecting human brains with computers, heightening the rivalry between the two billionaire entrepreneurs. The new venture, called Merge Labs,…
This will be the first national security mission to fly on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into space. An…
The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work. When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did you do that?” It’s a natural impulse—after all, if a human makes a…
Google may soon be ordered to sell Chrome, and Perplexity is ready. In the wake of its big antitrust loss, Google could soon find itself forced to sell one of its crown jewels. Among the government’s proposed remedies in the search case is a requirement that Google divest its…
The Radster is great as a Class 2 e-bike, but not quite as strong as a Class 3. With e-bike manufacturing in China having expanded considerably, the number of companies offering affordable e-bikes over the last five years has exploded. But the market for cycles with an electric assist…
Musk threatens to sue Apple to get Grok to top spot in App Store rankings. After spending last week hyping Grok’s spicy new features, Elon Musk kicked off this week by threatening to sue Apple for supposedly gaming the App Store rankings to favor ChatGPT over Grok. “Apple is…
Exploits allow for persistent backdooring when targets open booby-trapped archive. A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. The attacks backdoor computers that open malicious archives attached to phishing messages, some of which are personalized. Security firm ESET…
