It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop.
AI’s Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious
Researchers at the A.I. company Anthropic claim to have found clues about the inner workings of large language models, possibly helping to prevent their misuse and to curb their potential threats.
Craig Wright Is Not Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Court Rules
For years, Craig Steven Wright, an Australian cryptocurrency enthusiast, claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Then the courts got involved.
Researchers spot cryptojacking attack that disables endpoint protections
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malware recently spotted in the wild uses sophisticated measures to disable antivirus protections, destroy evidence of infection, and permanently infect machines with cryptocurrency-mining software, researchers said Tuesday. Key to making the unusually complex system of malware operate is a function in the main payload, named GhostEngine, that disables Microsoft Defender or...
Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI’s Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her
Last week, the company released a chatbot with an option that sounded like the actress, who provided the voice of an A.I. system in the movie “Her.”
Can AI Make the PC Cool Again? Microsoft Thinks So.
Microsoft, HP, Dell and others unveiled a new kind of laptop tailored to work with artificial intelligence. Analysts expect Apple to do something similar.
Scarlett Johansson’s Statement About Her Interactions With Sam Altman
The actress released a lengthy statement about the company and the similarity of one of its A.I. voices.
Why TikTok Users Are Blocking Celebrities
A TikTok movement is calling for followers to block famous people over their stances on the Israel-Hamas war. It began at the Met Gala.
OpenAI’s Flirty New Assistant, Google Guts the Web and We Play HatGPT
It’s been a week of A.I. vertigo — the feeling that we’ve been dragged five years into the future and aren’t sure what to do about it.
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
Enlarge / A screenshot of Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature in action. (credit: Microsoft) At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called “Recall” for Copilot+ PCs that will allow Windows 11 users to search and retrieve their past activities on their PC. To make it work, Recall records everything users...