The Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately, according to people familiar with the matter: They don’t have to deal with CEO Dario…
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Qualcomm Buys Buzzy Chip Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion
Qualcomm will acquire the Silicon Valley chip startup Modular for nearly $4 billion. The companies announced the acquisition on Wednesday; Qualcomm said it expects to…
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
As fears about AI hacking capabilities grow, OpenAI on Monday made a slew of cybersecurity-focused announcements, including an improved version of its limited-access security-specialized model…
World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot
You got a World Cup ticket. It arrived in your inbox with a QR code, professional branding, and a confirmation email that looked like the…
Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts
As Big Tech dumps billions of dollars into America’s data center buildout, a slew of opportunities have opened up to the electricians wiring these massive…
28 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level
ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and other tools like them are making artificial intelligence available to the masses. We can now get all sorts of responses back…
I Let Siri AI Show Me Around San Francisco
I quickly found that Siri AI’s bite-sized replies don’t drone on endlessly like many contemporary AI assistants, often sticking to a single paragraph. When I…
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
Dialog, the private network cofounded by Peter Thiel, grades its event attendees on a hidden scale, ranking them by wealth and fame, tracking their relationships,…