The US Department of Justice this week announced that it had indicted two North Korean nationals and three other men, accusing them of participating in a conspiracy designed to trick US companies into funding the North Korean regime. According to the indictment, which was filed in federal court in Miami, the scheme leveraged stolen identity…
President Donald Trump’s executive order removing Biden-Administration rules governing AI development is being cast as an opening of AI development flood gates, which could fast track advances in the still-new technology, but could also pose risks. Signed on Thursday, the executive order (EO) overturns former President Joe Biden’s 2023 policy, which mandated that AI developers…
OpenAI is releasing a preview version of its first AI agent, Operator, which is specifically designed to use a web browser and can, for example, book a table at a restaurant for the user on its own. (An AI agent is a system that can be given a task and then work on it independently.)…
My friend and fellow Android appreciator, allow me to shower you with two delightfully simultaneous truths from here in the land o’ Googley matters: I love using Google’s Pixel devices in part because of all the genuinely useful features they add into the Android equation. I love the fact that Android itself makes it not…
Apple and Google now face regulatory probes in the ailing UK market, where the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed it intends to investigate both company’s mobile ecosystems under new digital market laws. This is separate from an ongoing UK probe into mobile browsers and cloud gaming that also affects the two companies. The CMA intends to look…
A lawsuit in California accuses Linkedin of using private messages on its platform to train AI models, according to the BBC. The lawsuit alleges that in August 2024, the Microsoft-owned social network allegedly introduced a new privacy setting that automatically enrolled users in a program that allowed their personal data to be used for AI…
Chinese AI developer DeepSeek has unveiled an open-source version of its reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1, featuring 671 billion parameters and claiming performance superior to OpenAI’s o1 on key benchmarks. “DeepSeek-R1 achieves a score of 79.8% Pass@1 on AIME 2024, slightly surpassing OpenAI-o1-1217,” the company said in a technical paper. “On MATH-500, it attains an impressive score…
Apple’s innovative self-branded credit card, Apple Card, was expected to overturn the existing retail banking industry and transform relationships between bankers and customers. Equipped with generous benefits and unique integration between Apple’s ecosystem and a user’s financial relationships, the card quickly generated many thousands of US users after its 2019 introduction. With such a great start, how could…
If you’re a Microsoft 365 subscriber with a Personal or Family subscription, Microsoft just flipped a switch and activated Copilot AI features for your account. It’s a new part of your subscription, along with that 1TB of OneDrive storage and access to Office apps like Word and Excel. But there are some big catches —…
Fair warning: This isn’t your average article about what’s happening with all the newfangled AI hullabaloo in this weird and wild world of ours. Nope — there’ll be no “oohing” and “ahhing” or talk about how systems like Gemini and ChatGPT and their brethren are, like, totally gonna revolutionize the world and change life as…