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According to a report published by Puck last week, vagina egg merchant Gwyneth Paltrow will soon hold some sort of feast in honor of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Matthew Belloni, Puck’s key reporter and founding partner, says he wants bloggers like me to be categorical when we say this alleged event is reportedly happening. Apparently. He even provided a scan of the supposed invite with a heraldic sun and twin doves, printed in blue ink on heavy art paper. Peopl

Dr. Dre, the pioneering rapper and seven-time Grammy-winning producer behind hit songs like Tupac’s “California Love” and Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady,” is very much pro using artificial intelligence tools to make music. In an interview with the New York Times, Dr. Dre and Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine spoke about artificial intelligence’s recent foray into music production, with the producer characterizing those who oppose AI song generation

The AI resource repository Hugging Face is a little like GitHub for AI, except a recent news event—an OpenAI model autonomously attacking it—made it famous among people who aren’t developers. Now, according to Business Insider, it’s floating the idea of being acquired. Smart timing! Insider’s story, which cites anonymous “people familiar with the matter,” says Hugging Face is allied with “a bank”—no word on which one—and does not yet have a deal. Insider s

An entirely AI-led Russian drone operated by Nvidia technology killed three civilians last month in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, according to new reporting from the New York Times. The attack took place on July 6th, with the Russian drone initially targeting propane tanks at a gas station before crashing into a wall and exploding before reaching its target, thus killing three civilians: 19-year-old college student Tetiana Bubynets, 41-year-old Oleks

If there’s one line the tech giants of the world have been incessantly trying to drill into our skulls for the past few years—in product release events, media appearances, and one terrible ad after another—it’s that AI is going to change pretty much everything about our lives, very, very quickly. But in the face of heated, widespread public backlash against the data centers powering the AI boom, steep costs for customers, and other hurdles, OpenAI CEO Sam

You can’t say Elon Musk has concealed his motives when it comes to having SpaceX buy Cursor. The purpose is to catch up with AI leaders OpenAI, and, especially, Anthropic. A new report from the Information published Monday describes a supposed August meeting in which he spelled this all out, leaving no mystery about how he felt. The Information’s report comes from five anonymous insiders, the publication says. This meeting was apparently on or around Augus

Perplexity, a largely forgotten player in the AI space save for its role as Joe Rogan’s personal fact checker, is looking to regain some relevance by asking people to think global, process local. The company announced Tuesday that it is launching Portable Computer, a version of its agentic “Computer” platform that runs entirely locally on your own hardware. Computer was launched by Perplexity back in February to offer users an always-on AI agent that can r

Americans’ antipathy towards AI data centers has become as noisy and impossible for politicians to ignore as the sprawling, humming, resource-guzzling facilities themselves. But rather than conceding that communities are justified in their opposition to the power hubs of the AI boom, the Trump administration is now trying to quietly sweep it under the rug. Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the elimination of a decades-old feder

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain To fast-track the buildout of data centers that power artificial intelligence (AI), tech giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and OpenAI are pouring money into construction projects. Globally, companies are predicted to spend $375 billion in 2025 on AI infrastructure—a 67% surge from last year, according to an estimate by bank UBS. While this new era of rapid data center construction aims to power innovati

A US Virginia-class attack submarine during sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: US Navy courtesy of General Dynamics Electric Boat For over a century, the ocean has been the ultimate refuge for those who wished to disappear. From the U-boats of the first world war to the nuclear-powered leviathans that glide through today's deep waters, the submarine has thrived on one simple principle: stealth. Sound waves travel farther and faster in water than lig

Schematic diagram of the PV-BSS where the solid lines represent the energy flow and the dashed lines represent the market flow. Credit: IEEE Access (2025). DOI: 10.1109/access.2025.3615960 Solar power generation largely depends on weather conditions. When generation deviates from the planned output, the electricity market imposes penalty fees called "imbalance penalties." Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-b

Artificial intelligence is ushering in mass-made podcasts, a world without studios and microphones where virtual hosts are doing the talking. Artificial intelligence now makes it possible to mass-produce podcasts with completely virtual hosts, a development that is disrupting an industry still finding its footing and operating on a fragile business model. Since Google launched Audio Overview, the first mass-market podcast generator that creates shows from

Clouds provide specially protected environments for confidential data. However, even these can be vulnerable to security breaches. ETH Zurich researchers are helping to identify and close these vulnerabilities. Credit: Image generated with AI; Florian Meyer / ETH Zurich Some data is so sensitive that it is processed only in specially protected cloud areas. These are designed to ensure that not even a cloud provider can access the data. ETH Zurich researche

Our proposed hardware trojan detection and explanation framework. Credit: IEEE Access (2025). DOI: 10.1109/access.2025.3592030 University of Missouri researchers have used artificial intelligence to detect hidden hardware trojans through a method that's 97% accurate. From smartphones to medical devices, computer chips power nearly everything we use today. But hidden deep inside these chips, there's a little-known threat: hardware trojans—malicious modifica