Elon Musk caused a stir last week when he told the (recently fired) right-wing provocateur Tucker Carlson that he plans to build “TruthGPT,” a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Musk says the incredibly popular bot displays “woke” bias and that his version will be a “maximum truth-seeking AI”—suggesting only his own political... Read more

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Pinecone, the buzzy New York City-based vector database company that provides long-term memory for large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4, announced today that it has... Read more

Last year I ditched my Apple Watch after strapping the Garmin Forerunner 955 to my wrist, enjoying the many fitness features that Garmin’s watch offers. Since then, I’ve tried a few other Garmin Watches, like the Enduro 2, but the 955 always ended up back on my wrist —... Read more

“It consistently amazes me that in the physical world, when we release products there are really stringent guidelines,” Farid says. “You can’t release a product and hope it doesn’t kill your customer. But with software, we’re like, ‘This doesn’t really work, but let’s see what happens when we release... Read more

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Sybo announced this week that it’s launching a new game in its popular Subway Surfers franchise. The new game is Subway Surfers Blast, and it’s made in partnership with Outplay Entertainment. Unlike... Read more

The world of our children will be different from ours. Our grandchildren’s even more so. The crucial question: To what extent will that world be livable? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report last month — a synthesis of all the work it’s done over the... Read more

Twitter’s verification system debacle has had more twists than a Stephen King novel—fitting, given that the author has been at the center of yet another storm on the platform. A “legacy” verified user because of his fame as a horror novelist, King likely expected to lose his blue check... Read more

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Today, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sent a series of open letters to the CEOs of AI companies, including OpenAI, Google,... Read more

The Google Authenticator app, which was updated earlier this week to allow for cloud-based two-factor authentication (2FA) via your Google account, isn’t end-to-end encrypted, according to software company Mysk. “We analyzed the network traffic when the app syncs the secrets, and it turns out the traffic is not end-to-end... Read more

Some observers have welcomed the ruling, arguing that regulators have allowed tech companies to amass too much power by scaling through acquisitions. “We feel that there has been over a decade of under-enforcement,” says Max von Thun, Europe director at think tank Open Markets, referring to past decisions to... Read more