CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
…Long before AI researchers started trafficking in clout, these engineers were diligently working on CUDA without kudos. Even trusty coding agents still hobble through kernel code. Nvidia, in the end, may be…
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Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
…The trial forced Altman to miss a marketing event that Amazon Web Services held with OpenAI in San Francisco on Tuesday to unveil new efforts in agentic AI development. “Sorry I couldn…
Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
…You think about the biggest capability jumps that we've gotten from AI recently, it's been things that came out of the safety community. Agentic models were really made possible by…
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
…guardrails for validating and protecting transactions initiated by an AI agent. Meanwhile, given the proliferation and increasing sensitivity of some work using AI, OpenAI rolled out an “advanced” security risk mode for…
AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions
…s coding agent by bad actors, and we’re addressing it head-on,” the company’s CEO, Avishay Cohen, wrote. Hutchins argues that it’s this practical use of AI for enabling…
Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down
…In an era when every other Big Tech company has thrown significant resources at developing advanced AI, Apple is widely perceived as a laggard. Ternus’ old job will fall to Johny Srouji…
There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
…Nothing CEO Carl Pei told WIRED last year that he believes future smartphones will have one app, “that will be the OS.” AI companies are honing their chatbots' agentic skills—where they…
Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off
…The other thing that it’s going to be incredibly good at is running agentic AI. One of the myths out there has been that with the rise of AI, the GPU…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” identifies people captured by the glasses’ camera and, when activated, alerts the…
Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
…be able to move through their daily lives without fear that stalkers, scammers, abusers, federal agents, and activists across the political spectrum are silently and invisibly verifying their identities and potentially matching…