Innovation

OpenAI names new philanthropy advisors, including labor icon Dolores Huerta
OpenAI has named labor leader Dolores Huerta and three others to a temporary advisory board that will help guide the artificial intelligence company’s philanthropy as it attempts to shift...
Marvel Is Letting Its Villains Be Haters Again
The just-ended Daredevil: Born Again focuses on Matt Murdock’s ongoing clash with the Kingpin, but it’s another major rogue that sets things in motion. Minutes into the pilot, Wilson Bethel’s...
‘Stupid and Dangerous’: CISA Funding Chaos Threatens Essential Cybersecurity Program
In an eleventh-hour scramble before a key contract was set to expire on Tuesday night, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency renewed its funding for the longtime...
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B, with news expected later this week | TechCrunch
Codeium, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant tool Windsurf, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported. If the deal happens,...
Will Meta Really Have to Sell Instagram and WhatsApp?
Paresh Dave: Absolutely. The timing when some of those moves were first announced was viewed as kind of suspicious because it was right around when these investigations into Meta...
Trump tariffs reignite Europe’s push for cloud sovereignty
The Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs have ruffled feathers across the world — and reignited Europe’s push for digital sovereignty.  One of the key focus points has been Europe’s cloud...
Meet The AI Agent With Multiple Personalities
In the coming years, agents are widely expected to take over more and more chores on behalf of humans, including using computers and smartphones. For now, though, they’re too...
Zuckerberg once floated spinning off Instagram over antitrust fears, email reveals in trial
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation, according to an email shown Tuesday on the second day of...
Andor Season 2 Continues Time-Honored Tradition of Hijacking the Empire’s Ships
As anticipation builds for Andor season 2‘s debut on Disney+, the official Star Wars YouTube account has unveiled a new first-look clip to keep fans satiated. And wouldn’t you know it, Diego Luna’s...
US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated
The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns.  In...
Adapting for AI’s reasoning era
As AI systems that learn by mimicking the mechanisms of the human brain continue to advance, we're witnessing an evolution in models from rote regurgitation to genuine reasoning. This...
The Best Beard Trimmers for Showing Your Face
A beard grows about a millimeter every two or three days, depending on who you are—an eighth of an inch a week, on average. So testing beard trimmers can...