Sonos Has New Devices, a New OS, and Yes, a New App

Sonos has a new app. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid…

You Know Who Really Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters

On the job review platform Glassdoor, one faction hates artificial intelligence more than any other. “Pushing AI to the point that you are asking humans…

Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored

Whoop has made screen-free wearables since its first proper release in 2015, but the shift in what Whoop considers itself to be about mirrors the…

The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn

You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week,…

How to Run a Chatbot on Your Own Computer

It’s no exaggeration to say the large language models that power AI bots like ChatGPT and Gemini are changing the world. Many of us are…

AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?

Don’t be fooled by the question mark in the title of an article published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. When…

He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them

Since early 2023, photographer Jingna Zhang and a small crew of volunteers have worked tirelessly to maintain an image-sharing social media and portfolio app called…

Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers

Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers, according to several current and former…

A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic

A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from designating Anthropic a national security risk over a dispute about the use of its AI…

AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?

The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: Either the US or China will win in the end. But as concerns pile…