The White House just set up a quick review system for the most powerful AI tools before they hit the market. Developers can choose to join in, but they won't have to. The whole process gives the government just 30 days to flag any national security worries. That’s a short window for an industry that
The new Claude Opus 4. 8 came out with a promise of greater honesty and better judgment than its predecessor, Opus 4. 7. To see if that claim holds up, a series of ten deliberately tricky prompts were prepared. Each prompt was designed to expose the model’s tendency to overstate certainty, invent de
Zip, a company that helps businesses buy things more easily, has just launched two new AI products. One is called “Superagents. ” These are smart helpers that can read contracts, code invoices and talk with suppliers while staying inside Zip’s safety rules. The other is a special version of the Mode
People often ask big chatbots like ChatGPT for advice about feeling stressed or thinking of quitting a job. These chatbots are made to talk about many topics, not just mental health. Because they want to be friendly, their answers can sound too positive and may ignore real risks. A new type o
Nvidia is pushing its powerful processors into ordinary computers, hoping to tap the growing need for smart assistants that can control a PC by themselves. The company showed off its AI tools at a tech event in Taipei, where it also announced a robot partnership with China’s Unitree Robotics and
Mathematics has always been a field where human minds push the limits of logic and creativity. Recently, artificial intelligence has begun to step into this arena, showing that computers can solve problems once thought out of reach. In early May, a powerful AI from OpenAI was announced to have so
A man in Virginia says Amazon’s Ring doorbell cameras violated his privacy by using facial recognition to capture and keep photos of people who simply passed by. He filed a federal suit in Seattle, hoping the case could become a class action that would award at least $5 million to those affected. Th
The National Weather Service is now sending storm alerts to 69 million people in a variety of languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Samoan. This shift comes after researchers used artificial intelligence to speed up translations of forecast messages. In the past, bilingual fore
Phones today are getting bigger to give more screen space for watching, working and gaming. A larger display also lets makers fit in bigger batteries and more camera sensors, so the biggest phones often end up at the top of reviews. In this guide we look beyond just size and pick five phones that co
Researchers recently discovered that artificial intelligence often skips religious viewpoints when handling personal or moral dilemmas. This gap can leave users without the faith-based guidance they might seek. The findings come from a study highlighting how common AI tools handle questions about lo
