Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist and Google researcher and “AI Visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a method to put computers in the brain by snorting nano particles. Subsense, a four-year old company developing brain computer interface technology, announced the news alongside Kurzweil at an event at its Palo Alto, California headquarters
For anyone who has come to rely on AI chatbots, especially for work, Thursday morning was rough. According to online reports, including from staffers at the companies that make them, outages shut down some of the most popular AI services: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude AI, Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok. The widespread outages appear to
Investors got a reprieve on Thursday as the bond market regained its footing following a global sell-off earlier in the week. A rout in global bonds on Tuesday that sent yields spiking was partly reversed on Thursday, with investors cheering as US Treasury yields dropped from multi-year highs. The move appeared to be largely driven
Researching, buying, then finally assembling a sound system for your TV is daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. If you want one of the best kits you can get at a rare discount, Best Buy and Amazon are selling the Samsung Q990F Soundbar for $999.99. It normally retails between $1,300 and $1,600. This bundle
AI is expanding faster than any technology in history, propelled by competing hyperscalers and millions of users. And as a result, the data centers built to enable this growth have drawn scrutiny from communities and across party lines, including concerns over higher electric bills. But there’s also an emerging imbalance: OpenAI, Google and Meta can
In a late-night blog post last Friday, OpenAI said it would wind down its partnership with Cursor, the startup behind one of the most popular AI coding tools on the market. The reason OpenAI gave for the decision is effectively that it can’t trust Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX recently acquired Cursor in a $60
