OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers on its safety team who allegedly shared confidential company information with a third-party AI safety organization, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. “We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to the
When Apple’s budget MacBook was released in March, it was a solid bargain — the design incorporated the iPhone’s A18 Pro chip to tamp down the price and it shipped at $599. Factoring in the education discount, it was a nearly unbeatable deal for students. In the months since, the realities of RAMageddon and its
New York City residents struggling to get out of recurring subscription fees can now submit complaints to the city government. As of Thursday, the city’s click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up. That means a gym that lets you
Amazon’s Prime Day has returned for its fall edition, and the Amazon Alexa-powered devices are already on sale. But are the sales actually any good? There’s already the question of whether you want Alexa in your house, and now it’s a question of whether the sales are more of a mind game than a real
The way Rama Afullo tells it, he saw orbital data centers coming. The Kenyan American engineer previously worked in Google’s cloud computing business before a brief stint at SpaceX’s Starlink communications network in 2024. His experiences convinced him that there was untapped potential for computers in space. “When I was at SpaceX, I tried to
Ever wonder which voice assistant knows your weather the best? For the past couple of months, I’ve been testing out the big three — Amazon’s Alexa Plus, Google Gemini for Home (which is busy replacing Google Assistant) and Apple’s Siri AI — to see who gets the weather right most often. They all pull their
