AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harms in heavy users, but there have been few standards for measuring whether they safeguard human well-being or just maximize for engagement. A new benchmark called HumaneBench seeks to fill that…
OpenAI’s new social app Sora launched with a controversial feature called Cameo, which allows users to create deepfakes of themselves or others with their permission. The feature had a difficult rollout, which involved the estate of Martin Luther King Jr.…
When people see it, they say, ‘that’s it? It’s so simple.’ That is how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman describes how he thinks people will react to seeing the company’s forthcoming AI hardware device for the first time. The device is…
Tesla may have celebrated a regulatory win in Europe a bit too soon. Tesla claimed in a weekend social media post that the Dutch regulator RDW was set to approve the use of its driver assistance system, known as Full…
The batteries that power Rad Power Bikes’ e-bikes pose a risk of serious injury and death, and owners should stop using them according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The warning, issued on Monday by the CPSC, is due…
There is a new AI-powered toy for kids called Stickerbox, and before you groan, I am here to report that it is surprisingly fun. Stickerbox, a product from the Brooklyn-based startup Hapiko, is a voice-activated sticker printer. The device takes…
On Monday, Anthropic announced Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model. This is the final model in Anthropic’s 4.5 series to be released, following the launch of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. As expected,…
Amazon Web Services is making a significant new investment in infrastructure designed to boost artificial intelligence capabilities for United States government organizations. The company announced it is investing fifty billion dollars to build high-performance computing infrastructure purposefully built for the…
X recently began rolling out a new feature that seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. However, the data might not be reliable. While X’s new “About this account” feature includes information about…
Nuclear startup X-energy has raised seven hundred million dollars in a Series D funding round. This new fundraise comes less than a year after the company expanded its Series C round from five hundred million to seven hundred million dollars.…
