Artificial, the new comedy-drama about OpenAI and the artificial intelligence arms race, is a movie of weird walks. As OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, Russian actor…
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OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
In August, OpenAI convened around 40 mathematicians to discuss what to do if AI outpaces human capabilities in the field. The company hinted that its…
Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely-available model that it claims can compete…
Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI
For most people, the AI Era we’re now living in started sometime around the end of 2022, when OpenAI released the first consumer version of…
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got…
The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
The era of generative AI has upended technology supply chains, and there is one ironclad rule in 2026: If it has memory or storage, it’s…
These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
Some big AI companies seem to think that the best way to keep models from becoming too chaotic or too mischievous is to keep them…
Trump’s Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs—and It Worked
Seventy years ago last summer, a group of scientists met at Dartmouth College to discuss a wild idea—that machines might one day be capable of…
A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
Hardly a day goes by lately without news of AI agents autonomously hacking websites or AI tools being used by cybercriminals and scammers. But a…