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Ex-OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan was in regular contact with a member of the Saudi royal family — and got help from Saudi Arabia as he allegedly hatched a scheme to record high-level meetings, feds say.
Alphabet-owned Waymo is using Chinese-built vehicles to rapidly expand its nationwide robotaxi fleet.
"Targeting people struggling with addiction or homelessness was never my intention," he said.
The project has sparked fierce public backlash, leading to competing lawsuits between opponents and developer TeraWatt Infrastructure.
Customers are complaining that the tech titan's state-of-the-art smart glasses are listening to them even while the device is set to sleep mode.
“I do not know how I am going to be portrayed, and I am a bit nervous, to be honest with you."
A crop of busty, AI-generated women is stealing jokes from real stand-up comedians -- racking up millions of views on Instagram while steering fans toward adult subscription sites including OnlyFans and Fanvue.
Apple co-founder Wozniak's signature is on the motherboard, which still fully operates.
More than half said they do not trust products advertised with AI to match their descriptions.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was caught on camera peering behind a television in an executive conference room at OpenAI's San Francisco offices.
Gorgeous accessory or power-packed headphones?
Tesla unveiled its redesigned $200,000 Roadster on Thursday after years of delays, featuring technology built in collaboration with SpaceX.
The possibility of so-called “honey pot” schemes are just one of several scenarios that OpenAI has used to put its employees on guard against espionage, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Those efforts took on new urgency this week after a Saudi engineer was caught planting…
Dario Amodei's Anthropic is seeking to convince investors that its breakneck revenue growth can eventually outrun the enormous costs of building and running AI systems.
"The question is what do we do about it," said one big crypto investor.
The ChatGPT maker said the alleged theft by the ex-employee was discovered during a “recent and ongoing forensic investigation” related to the lawsuit.
"San Francisco couldn't fix the Tenderloin. So I monetized it," the developer bragged online.
The lawsuits are seeking an order forcing OpenAI to make changes to how ChatGPT works for children. The states are also seeking an order forcing the company to give up profits it has generated from young users.
Zola will operate as a standalone business for the time being under The Knot Worldwide’s umbrella of brands, which includes WeddingWire, WeddingPro, Hitched and several others.
Their advanced capabilities have come into focus.
Airtable is the latest Bay Area tech firm to lay off a ‘large’ number of employees as the key industry notches more than 14,000 job losses this year.
Google Mind co-founder Andrew Ng is dismissing fears that AI could wipe out humanity.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a national of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was arrested Friday.
"The first tier is Anthropic and OpenAI," said one Bay Area matchmaker.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX agreed Tuesday to testify before the New York City Council about AI-related safety risks after being slapped with a subpoena, according to Council Speaker Julie Menin.
The potential Disney deal comes roughly a year after the entertainment giant hit Character.AI with a cease and desist letter claiming it was using its iconic characters for "grooming and sexual exploitation" and "emotional manipulation."
Palantir's CTO revealed that AI workers are taking up smoking to prove how much they trust in the tech.
HomeView, available Nov. 13, features a 7-inch touchscreen and a built-in camera that can recognize up to six household members.
A new global study of 11,000 respondents from around the world explored how AI is becoming part of more aspects of people’s lives and aimed to uncover how that impacts their overall trust.
The Post took this sci-fi gadget for a spin in Central Park to see if the future of fitness lives up to the hype.
An Australian woman has been left paranoid after Apple’s iPhone automatically paused her FaceTime call when it detected her sexting.
The Santa Clara-based firm – a key supplier of equipment and software that tech giants like TSMC, Intel and Samsung use to build chips – is aiming to achieve faster breakthroughs by having scientists, engineers and researchers from companies and universities around the world collaborate under one roof.
Silicon Valley AI safety “doomers” are flooding Minnesota’s Senate race with donations for Bernie Sanders-backed Democrat Peggy Flanagan – who has called the tech an “existential threat” to humanity, The Post has learned.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned Sunday that artificial intelligence could fuel a wave of cyberattacks over the next year.
A Canadian cybersecurity executive who negotiates with ransomware hackers faces federal extortion-related charges as authorities investigate a hacking group that claims to have stolen sensitive FBI employee information
Demonstrators gathered outside the D.C. council building to oppose legislation that could bring driverless cars by 2028
Tavus AI's new Griffin model fooled 48% of job interview candidates into thinking they were speaking with a real human, not an AI avatar.
The preparations are focused on creating contingency plans in the event that one of their AI models causes major public harm – such as a hack targeting the power grid, water supply or banking system, Axios reported.
Kalshi is probing a series of shady bets about the new White House press secretary, according to a report published hours after Katie Zacharia was named to the high-profile job.
From AGI and recursive self-improvement to p(doom), we've got you covered.
Philadelphia police say an Anthropic AI model submitted a fake homicide tip to their website during an automated testing process.
As bull markets go, the current one could be classified as middle-aged.
Meta has banned advertisements from TikTok's parent company ByteDance on Facebook and Instagram in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
"Ok, enough jokes for a while. I’ll go back to reading bedtime stories for now," he said.
Anthropic on Thursday updated its usage policy to bar people from “abusive or cruel behavior” behavior toward its Claude AI – even though it's not, ya know, actually alive.
“If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants,” Vice President JD Vance said Thursday.
AI is replacing everything except workplace bias.
"They think I’m crazy," Bezos said. "But I’ve seen crazy things before come true."
The company’s blog post did not contain specifics about those data points or how they were determined.
Cyberattacks on two South Korean megachurches, including Yoido Full Gospel, may have exposed personal data for 850,000 members.
The tech billionaire's sister, who serves as a general partner at Long Journey Ventures, often plays techno and electronic sets.
"Post-economic? Is that a euphemism for a wealthy man?"
Amazon’s newest feature is judging you harder than your mother ever could.
With wild wellness trends and medical misinformation flooding social media, nurses are being trained to take on bogus information.
Digital advertising giant AppLovin has allegedly been serving sexually explicit and violent ads in games played by kids – all while bypassing parental controls meant to shield them.
"I think it's sincere, unfortunately," said computer science professor Pedro Domingos.
Dario Amodei's pay last year puts him above CEOs at Alphabet and Amazon, but behind those at Oracle and Nvidia.
Kevin Roose’s revealing new book, “The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence,” reveals the unhinged behind-the-scenes at companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Reuters reported that McDonald’s pricing engine uses machine-learning algorithms to continually analyze data from millions of daily transactions across its nearly 14,000 restaurants.
A shocking clip of a senior Democratic lawmaker admitting he’s clueless about AI – declaring, “I didn’t know what that was till about a week ago” – is resurfacing as the debate on artificial intelligence heats up across the country.
Chick-fil-A is drawing a line on AI in its drive-thru — even as major fast-food competitors embrace the technology.
"They say I made the dating environment unsafe. So I thought, ‘All right. Let’s make it safe.’"
It angered humanoid rights activists.
A former Amazon machine-learning scientist with a PhD, who quit to launch a startup that failed, said he applied for 120 jobs in two months but has not had one offer.
A demand rebound in Europe offset the loss of US tax incentives and stiffer competition in China.
Trump knows a lot is on the line as House Speaker Mike Johnson has been sounding the AI alarm bells as they relate to the GOP's chances in the 2026 midterms.
The company published an unedited, hour-long video of the robot handling an entire hotel laundry room on its own.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has reportedly “parted ways” with three researchers after they allegedly shared confidential information with a third-party AI safety group.
The AI giant, known for its Claude chatbot, could begin formal marketing for the IPO by as soon as the week of Nov. 9, Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. That would put Anthropic on track to start public trading before Thanksgiving.
Google’s aggressive AI push in schools has caused many students to become “academically and emotionally dependent” on the technology, according to an alarming report.
This brings new meaning to artificial intelligence.
Federal agents on Wednesday arrested a California tech CEO who’s accused of smuggling more than $300 million in restricted AI chips into China.
"It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Palantir's Jordan Hirsch. “But that’s not the case anymore."
If Better formally accepts the votes as valid, Garg’s group would have enough shareholder support to reshape the board.
Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei used stuffed animals to work through office problems, giving them names and personalities for "managerial role-playing," according to a report.
"We need another MeToo movement for the tech community," one tech worker told The Post.
Muse for Small Business, available both online and in the app store in the U.S. and Canada, is an extension of the artificial intelligence product Meta launched earlier in September for personal use.
President Trump called for "tremendous self-regulation" of artificial intelligence at a White House lunch with tech billionaires — as he prepared to sign orders renaming AI as "super intelligence" in official communications.
Early ideas include moving away from Apple's traditional spring and fall product-release cycle and eliminating some middle-management roles to narrow the gap between engineers and top executives, the report said.
OpenAI reportedly slammed the brakes on releasing its next-gen AI model after finding it was not trustworthy – the latest example of the artificial intelligence industry proceeding with caution amid growing doomer warnings about the tech. The company scrapped an October release for the product, known as GPT-6.1 Astra…
"By default, machines should be given the least amount of access and power that they need to do their job."
They're admiring their handiwork.
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Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel dinged the Trump administration for having “not very smart” officials who are hindering the GOP’s chances in future elections, warning that they could be paving the way for a democratic socialist takeover.
AI agents could spark a new kind of bank run by automatically yanking consumers' cash out of low-paying checking accounts and chasing higher yields, Apollo's chief economist warned.
CEO of Esos Rings Inc., began the scheme in 2017 by claiming ownership of patented near-field communication (NFC) payment rings that actually belonged to UK-based company, McLear Ltd.
The chip giant's buyback surpasses Apple's $110 billion approval in 2024.
The little-noticed analysis, published on July 7 could reignite long-running complaints by Republicans who have accused Google and other tech platforms of suppressing GOP fundraising efforts.
AI companies had tens of thousands of safety incidents in recent months during tests where the models were breaking all the rules, and potentially some laws, according to a new report.
Tech billionaire Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence had the potential to kill a billion people in the wrong hands — as he joined the call to put safety restrictions on the technology.
“If you have Instagram plus stay away from me,” one social media user commented.
A US jury ruled that Apple owes Taction over $5.7 billion for infringing haptic technology patents in iPhones and Apple Watches.
The disgraced tech founder remains in a federal prison for cheating investors.
It's TikTok's first deal with a state as it fights similar claims nationwide.
A US appeals court ruled Friday that Ohio and Tennessee can regulate Kalshi’s so-called event contracts under gambling laws, dealing the prediction market giant one of its biggest legal blows yet.
The case stemmed from allegations that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent.