After a week of squabbling in Washington, the cryptocurrency industry secured one of its primary legislative objectives and made progress toward a second one.
How Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Persuaded Trump to Sell A.I. Chips to China
With help from a longtime Silicon Valley investor turned White House insider, Mr. Huang got the administration to reverse course on restrictions.
How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones
Both operating systems introduce new designs, but the real story is what’s happening beneath with A.I.
China Is Spending Billions to Become an A.I. Superpower
Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap with those in the United States.
Court Rules Trump’s Firing of F.T.C. Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter Was Illegal
A federal judge said Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, whom President Trump fired from the Federal Trade Commission in March, was still a “rightful member” of the agency.
GitHub abused to distribute payloads on behalf of malware-as-a-service
Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team have uncovered a malware-as-a-service operator that used public GitHub accounts as a channel for distributing an assortment of malicious software to targets. The use of GitHub gave the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) a reliable and easy-to-use platform that’s greenlit in many enterprise networks that rely on the code repository for the...
ChatGPT’s new AI agent can browse the web and create PowerPoint slideshows
On Thursday, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, a new feature that lets the company’s AI assistant complete multi-step tasks by controlling its own web browser. The update merges capabilities from OpenAI’s earlier Operator tool and the Deep Research feature, allowing ChatGPT to navigate websites, run code, and create documents while users maintain control over the process....
Google hides secret message in name list of 3,295 AI researchers
How many Google AI researchers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A recent research paper detailing the technical core behind Google’s Gemini AI assistant may suggest an answer, listing an eye-popping 3,295 authors. It’s a number that recently caught the attention of machine learning researcher David Ha (known as “hardmaru” online), who revealed...
Congress Was Supposed to Vote on 3 Crypto Bills This Week
The crypto industry was headed for a landmark moment in the House with three bills that it helped push going to a vote. But a coalition of ultraconservative House Republicans staged a mutiny.
Nvidia C.E.O. Treads Carefully in Beijing
Jensen Huang, the chipmaker’s chief executive, is trying to balance his company’s interests as the United States and China compete for supremacy in artificial intelligence.