In firing Altman, OpenAI’s board wanted to keep the element of surprise
Illustration: The Verge We still don’t know the whole story around the conflict between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the company’s board, but more and more is leaking out. A…
Samsung Galaxy S24 leaks suggest a titanium build, flattened screen, and more
Leaked images of the new Samsung S24 Ultra and standard S24. | Image: Windows Report This is the time of year when Samsung unwillingly has major details of its flagship…
Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
Enlarge / Just some of the prizes you can win in this year’s charity drive sweepstakes. (credit: Kyle Orland) If you’ve been too busy playing Pendulumania to take part in this…
A bitter pill: Amazon calls on rival SpaceX to launch Internet satellites
Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a reused booster stage and payload fairing is seen rolling out to its launch pad in Florida before a mission last month.…
Usage Threads is 3 Minutes Versus 31 Minutes Per Day For X
Exploding Topics reports n July 7, Thread users spent an average of 21 minutes daily on the app, but now Thread users only spend an average of 3 minutes daily…
SpaceX will take some Amazon satellites to space
Image: Amazon Amazon is enlisting the help of one of its biggest rivals to shuttle its Project Kuiper internet satellites into space. The company will use SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket…
1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study
Enlarge / An artist’s impression of a human and a robot talking. (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) In a preprint research paper titled “Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?”,…
25M homes will lose broadband discounts if Congress keeps stalling, FCC warns
Enlarge / Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel during a House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee hearing on March 31, 2022, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Kevin Dietsch…
Amazon Fire TVs have found a new and annoying way to slap you in the face with ads
Image: Amazon Well this friggin’ sucks. If you have a Fire TV product of some kind, you’ve probably noticed in the last few weeks that every time you turn on…
The Universe in a lab: Testing alternate cosmology using a cloud of atoms
Enlarge / Density waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate. (credit: NASA) In the basement of Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik in Germany, researchers have been simulating the Universe as it might have existed…