The next industrial revolution is here. Like electricity or the internet before it, artificial intelligence has the potential to transform economies by opening new avenues for growth. India is no exception.
AI tools are now exacerbating a largely hidden problem that frontier AI companies have been contending with for years: the risk that employees will exploit their access to spy on their employers.Why it matters: The same AI tools that companies are racing to release can also help people plan crimes a
A deep dive of Alfozan's digital presence suggests he ran in elite business and government circles in Saudi Arabia, although nothing immediately implicates him.
AI is giving longevity research a new way forward: better tools to identify potential interventions, and better ways to investigate their effects in people. Two recent papers from our team and academic collaborators illustrate that progression. In Cell, we introduced open tools to evaluate AI models
Renee Wegrzyn spent her career building the future of American science—including the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, the White House agency created to accelerate health breakthroughs. Then the Trump administration showed her the door. Wegrzyn cofounded Transfyr to tackle wha
OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday, OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of sending this information to a personal account and then presenting it to Apple leadership, including the vice president
Drew McKnight, Co-CEO and managing partner of Fortress Investment Group, joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." They speak CAIS Summit in Beverly Hills, California about the immense capital needed for data centers, the performance of private credit investments, and the potential defaults and restru
Over four days last week, Ukrainian drones struck three data centers operated by Yandex, Russia’s largest technology company. Facilities went offline, disrupting services used by banks, retailers, and ordinary Russians. One of the sites, in Sasovo, housed tens of thousands of servers and two of the
An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company’s technology.The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfoza
Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome
Android is introducing new scam defense features that aim to make it easier for users to evade mobile fraud, including bolstered protection in Google Messages and additional safeguarding tools. Building on the Scam Detection feature in Google Messages, a new "enhanced protection" setting will be rol
Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It's called the Square Kiosk. Square says the Kiosk, which has a large pill shape, has an "agentic, conversational voice layer" that "fully understands a seller's menu and listens and
WhatsApp's new guest calling feature allows you to invite anyone to a call, without needing them to make an account first. They won't need the app, either, since Meta also added support for calls on the web version of WhatsApp earlier this year. You can invite guests just by sending them the call li
CoreWeave Inc.’s bonds have plunged to levels that typically indicate distress, in a swift move that has caught the attention of Silicon Valley leaders including Chamath Palihapitiya and Elon Musk.