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Waymo Catches World Model Fever, and the Only Prescription Is More World Models

February 6, 2026February 6, 2026 · Gadgets

Waymo vehicles have reportedly racked up more than 200 million miles of autonomous driving on public roads. But it’s yet to run into a tornado or an elephant,…

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Tesla Appears to Have Moved Its Robotaxi Safety Monitors to a More Sneaky Location

January 23, 2026January 23, 2026 · Gadgets

Tesla’s self-driving Robotaxis have been operating in Austin, Texas, with a safety monitor in the passenger seat, a trained person who can intervene in case anything goes wrong…

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Engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 · Gadgets

Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless last week to talk about the inner workings of the company that he…

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AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds

December 20, 2025December 20, 2025 · Gadgets

AI image generation models have massive sets of visual data to pull from in order to create unique outputs. And yet, researchers find that when models are pushed…

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Do Not, Under Any Circumstance, Buy Your Kid an AI Toy for Christmas

November 21, 2025November 22, 2025 · Gadgets

AI is all the rage, and that includes on the toy shelves for this holiday season. Tempting though it may be to want to bless the kids in…

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Jeff Bezos’s New AI Hardware Startup Isn’t Even His Biggest Moonshot

November 17, 2025November 17, 2025 · Gadgets

Here on Earth, regulators and citizens alike are realizing that there may be downsides to going all in on the demands of AI data centers and the companies…

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Why Is the AI Czar Already Saying OpenAI Won’t Get a Bailout?

November 6, 2025November 6, 2025 · Gadgets

Is it a good sign or a bad sign that the biggest player in an emerging industry actively making trillion-dollar commitments that are artificially propping up the economy…

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Small Towns Are Betting That the Data Center Boom Will Never End

November 4, 2025November 5, 2025 · Gadgets

What happens when data centers come to town? A whole lot, wanted or not. Tech firms are promising to pour trillions of dollars into building new data centers…

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Meta Says Porn Stash was for ‘Personal Use,’ Not Training AI Models

November 3, 2025November 3, 2025 · Gadgets

Meta forgot to keep its porn in a passworded folder, and now its kink for data collection is the subject of scrutiny. The social media giant turned metaverse…

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What’s Scarier Than a Haunted House? An AI Data Center

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025 · Gadgets

The owner of a haunted house in Pennsylvania has a new idea to spook his patrons: the eerie whirring of fans, the humming of electricity, and the looming…

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OpenAI Data Shows Hundreds of Thousands of Users Display Signs of Mental Health Challenges

October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 · Gadgets

OpenAI claims that 10% of the world’s population currently uses ChatGPT on a weekly basis. In a report published by on Monday, OpenAI highlights how it is handling…

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Meta Reportedly Laying Off Hundreds From Its AI Team

October 22, 2025October 22, 2025 · Gadgets

Meta has thrown billions of dollars at its artificial intelligence efforts. Somehow, that is apparently resulting in fewer people being employed. According to a report from Axios, about…

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OpenAI Launches the AI Browser War

October 21, 2025October 21, 2025 · Gadgets

ChatGPT has broken out of the chatbot. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is launching a web browser called ChatGPT Atlas, which it says will reimagine the browsing…

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Looks Like JD Vance Didn’t Get the Memo That This Admin Hates AI Guardrails

October 17, 2025October 18, 2025 · Gadgets

Republicans have largely been embracing a “hands-off” approach to regulating artificial intelligence, but Vice President JD Vance has found where he draws the line: weird porn. During an…

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Even the Inventor of ‘Vibe Coding’ Says Vibe Coding Can’t Cut It

October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 · Gadgets

It’s been over a year since OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy exited the company. In the time since he’s been gone, he coined and popularized the term “vibe coding”…

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Sam Altman: Lord Forgive Me, It’s Time to Go Back to the Old ChatGPT

October 14, 2025October 14, 2025 · Gadgets

Earlier this year, OpenAI scaled back some of ChatGPT’s “personality” as part of a broader effort to improve user safety following the death of a teenager who took…

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Police Say People Keep Calling 911 Over an ‘AI Homeless Man’ TikTok Prank

October 11, 2025October 11, 2025 · Gadgets

Finally, generative AI has found its purpose: letting kids prank parents. In an apparent new social media trend, kids are creating AI-generated images of homeless people in their…

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You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking Out

October 8, 2025October 9, 2025 · Gadgets

The complete copyright-free-for-all approach that OpenAI took to its new AI video generation model, Sora 2, lasted all of one week. After initially requiring copyright holders to opt…

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OpenAI Goes All-In on Vibe Coding, Says ‘Mature Experiences’ Are on the Horizon

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 · Gadgets

OpenAI’s DevDay 2025 featured a major focus on vibe coding. The company, which boasts that it now has more than 800 million weekly active users for ChatGPT, announced…

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Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 · Gadgets

Taylor Swift once said, “You deserve to own the art you make.” Apparently, that doesn’t apply to the millions of artists who have had their works fed into…

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