Mr. Altman discussed President Trump’s understanding of artificial intelligence, the war for A.I. talent and OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft. Continue reading Takeaways From Hard Fork’s Interview With OpenAI’s Sam Altman
The fourth mission by the company Axiom Space will help the three countries get to the International Space Station for the first time. Continue reading SpaceX to Launch Axiom Mission 4: How to Watch
Philips is upping the prices of its popular and already-expensive Hue series of smart lighting products starting July 1. The company is blaming tariffs for the changes and has suggested that prices could go up even higher after the initial bump in July. Philips started informing its customers via an email marketing message earlier this month that prices would go up and urged people to … Continue reading Philips Hue bulbs will be even more expensive in July. And it may not end there.
Fraudulent or misleading storage devices are, unfortunately, still easy to find via online marketplaces. It’s also a common story that someone buys a shockingly cheap storage device from an unknown brand and ends up with a product that doesn’t perform as expected—or at all. With this in mind, data-recovery firm Secure Data Recovery recently bought a 500GB HDD from Amazon (the UnionSine HD2510) for $28 … Continue reading Data-recovery firm tests $28, 500GB HDD from Amazon and gets surprising results
Last fall, Microsoft announced that individuals who wanted to keep using Windows 10 past its official end-of-support date could do so by opting into the company’s Extended Security Update (ESU) program at a cost of $30 per PC. That payment would get users a single year of additional security updates. Today, less than four months before that October 14, 2025, cutoff, Microsoft is announcing additional … Continue reading Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026, with strings attached
We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT “robots,” but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots. After announcing Gemini Robotics earlier this year, Google DeepMind has now revealed a new on-device VLA (vision language action) model to control robots. Unlike the previous release, there’s no cloud component, allowing robots to operate with full autonomy. Carolina Parada, head of robotics … Continue reading Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
After 20 years, being able to look at any corner of the planet in Google Earth doesn’t seem that impressive, but it was a revolution in 2005. Google Earth has gone through a lot of changes in that time, and Google has some more lined up for the service’s 20th anniversary. Soon, Google Earth will help you travel back in time with historic Street View … Continue reading Google rolls out Street View time travel to celebrate 20 years of Google Earth
Videos and projections depicting an A.I.-generated actor, the digital memories of robots, a redwood forest and more: High-tech storytelling is having a moment. Continue reading On Broadway, A.I. and High-Tech Storytelling Is Having a Moment
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up. Continue reading At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
As with any operating system that ushers in a major new look and feel, this year’s Apple operating systems and their new Liquid Glass aesthetic will likely merit some extra attention from power users who want to see all the new stuff and developers who suddenly need to acclimate to a new design language. Apple put out one early beta build of all of its … Continue reading Apple releases new beta builds of all its flashy new Liquid Glass-ified OS updates
