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Man, I’ve been waiting to write this one for a while. Generative AI is over. Wait, what? No, not really. I like to get histrionic when I spit out these little proclamations that will be more concrete anywhere from three to nine months from now.
As the prices of memory and components soar, affording a new computer is becoming more and more challenging for some people. Average computer prices are expected to increase by as much as 20% before year’s end. That’s forcing many computer owners to make do with what they have.
Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement requesting “human direction, oversight and control” of AI. The U.S. was not among them.
To celebrate AI right now almost feels dangerous, because of the widespread and increasingly intense backlash against it. I myself have written about the dangers of AI, not least in these pages, so I understand the anti-AI sentiment.
In May, solar generated more electricity than either coal or wind across the United States for the first time in a single month. New figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration show solar produced 47,147 gigawatt-hours, ahead of coal’s 45,119.
It was eight days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and Facebook was facing criticism that a flood of false stories on its platform had helped elect Donald Trump. That morning, Sheryl Sandberg got a policy memo from an unlikely source: Sacha Baron Cohen.
OpenAI said Monday it was delaying the release of a new artificial intelligence model out of security concerns voiced by its researchers, the latest in the company’s effort to decelerate the pace of the technology’s advance.OpenAI’s decision to hold back the model, called GPT-6.1 Astra, comes amid…
This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. On a modern battlefield defined by the ever-expanding “affordable mass” of cheap, disposable drones, Ben Levinson wants to build something that lasts.
In the parlance of tech companies, I’m a “heavy user” of AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. How much do I use these tools? Let’s put it this way: If ChatGPT goes down for a few hours, my productivity grinds to a halt and I end up standing around aimlessly in my backyard with a La Croix instead of…
SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety. The spacecraft reentered over the Pacific and splashed down north of Hawaii three hours after blasting off from Texas.
A few days ago, I attended a conference where the speaker read his talk off his note cards. I immediately recognized ChatGPT’s fingerprints: “and this is where it gets interesting,” “it’s not X, it’s Y”… The topic was management, a field that already generates plenty of hot air without any help…
As news of additional AI model security incidents continues to roll out, Nvidia has unveiled a new security platform it says will prevent AI agents from breaking containment and hacking into other companies.
It’s a busy time to be a lawyer for an AI company. British Columbia became the latest government to sue OpenAI last week, alleging the company failed to warn police before February’s mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.
Maura Healey, the governor of Massachusetts, recently laid down a new rule on the contentious question of whether to build data centers in her state: “Unless a community says yes to a data center, we are saying no.” Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro, took it a step further, requiring developers…
Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone has long taken advantage of technological advances to deliver language learning to customers in the comfort of their own homes.
Even the government sometimes freaks out about changes to the terms and conditions. Documents obtained by Fast Company through a public records request show that officials of at least two federal agencies were, at least briefly, anxious about whether Amazon might have been allowed to train its AI…
The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. The area is home to the world’s largest concentration of data centers.
This is something you have probably noticed several times—at least, I certainly have. When you use an AI chatbot for personal questions, decision-making, research, and the like, it works amazingly well. But when you try your company’s AI . . .
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