Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, experts have debated how widely AI language models would impact the world. A few years later, the picture is getting clear. According to new Stanford University-led research examining over 300 million text samples across multiple sectors, AI language models now assist in writing up to a quarter...
Under Trump, U.S. Dismantles Crypto Crackdown
Going case by case, regulators have halted investigations and withdrawn or paused lawsuits against top crypto companies and their executives.
Microsoft Will Shut Down Skype in Favor of a Free Version of Teams
The company plans to move users of the pioneering service, which it bought in 2011, to Microsoft Teams.
Why China’s Xiaomi Can Make an Electric Car and Apple Can’t
Xiaomi, which produces smartphones and consumer electronics, delivered 135,000 E.V.s last year after tapping China’s robust manufacturing supply chain.
Anthropic’s C.E.O., Dario Amodei, on Surviving the A.I. Endgame
“I’m just worried that it’ll be a shock to people when it happens.”
It’s Like Virtual Reality Goggles for Your Mouth
Scientists tested a device that helped volunteers taste flavors meant to represent distant samples of coffee, lemonade, fried eggs, cake and fish soup.
Serbian student’s Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite
Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite was used to compromise the phone of a Serbian student who had been critical of that country’s government. The human rights organization first called out Serbian authorities in December for what it said was its “pervasive and routine...
“It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews
The verdict is in: OpenAI’s newest and most capable traditional AI model, GPT-4.5, is big, expensive, and slow, providing marginally better performance than GPT-4o at 30x the cost for input and 15x the cost for output. The new model seems to prove that longstanding rumors of diminishing returns in training unsupervised-learning LLMs were correct and...
(BPRW) Trailblazing Tech Leader and Hampton University Alum Leon Burns Recognized in Washington Business Journal’s 40 Under 40
(Black PR Wire) Washington, DC – Leon M. Burns, a respected leader and innovator in the technology industry, has been recognized as one of the Washington Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 honorees for 2025. This prestigious list highlights y…
A.I. and Vibecoding Helped Me to Create My Own Software
I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence.