Numerous tech companies are vying to harness the power of AI for a new generation of web browsers. Probably the most prominent is Perplexity’s Comet, which it describes as a “personal assistant and thinking partner” while you surf the web. Unsurprisingly, that approach can have enormous cybersecurity implications. As privacy-focused browser company Brave noted in a blog post… Continue reading Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post
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This Incredibly Simple Question Causes GPT-5 to Melt Into a Puddle of Pure Confusion
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman keeps heralding GPT-5, the company’s latest large language model (LLM), as approaching to human-level intelligence — but when you actually put it to the test, it often turns out to be strikingly dumb, albeit in a verbose way. Just take a recent experiment conducted by Gary Smith, an economics professor at Pomona… Continue reading This Incredibly Simple Question Causes GPT-5 to Melt Into a Puddle of Pure Confusion
You’ll Squint and Wipe Your Glasses When You See This Leaked Data on How Much Microsoft Engineers Are Getting Paid
One of the more salient side effects of the incredible shrinking tech sector is the loss of so many high-paying jobs, many of which young jobseekers were encouraged to apply for by those who implored them to “learn to code.” As such, we generally expect inflated salaries when we learn what people who work at… Continue reading You’ll Squint and Wipe Your Glasses When You See This Leaked Data on How Much Microsoft Engineers Are Getting Paid
Creepy AI Will Look Up a Teacher’s Info to Predict What Grade They’ll Give a Paper
Gone are the days when Grammarly was just a helpful little spellchecker. Presently, it’s capitalizing on the AI hype cycle as much as anyone else, and on Monday, it announced a new suite of AI agents for students that will definitely raise a few eyebrows. As spotlighted by The Verge, Grammarly is now offering an… Continue reading Creepy AI Will Look Up a Teacher’s Info to Predict What Grade They’ll Give a Paper
Scientists Detect Precise Origin of Mysterious Signal From Deep Space
For almost two decades, astronomers have been trying in vain to explain extremely bright flashes of radio bursts emanating from deep space. Despite only lighting up for a tiny fraction of a second, these fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been known to release as much energy as the Sun puts out in an entire year.… Continue reading Scientists Detect Precise Origin of Mysterious Signal From Deep Space
Harvard Startup Says Its Smart Glasses Will Do “Vibe Thinking” for You
We live in an age where the tech industry’s core pitch is for you to outsource your brain’s cognitive functions, be it to an AI chatbot or an app. The idea has now reached a new zenith. A startup called Halo is releasing a pair of smart glasses that will record and transcribe all your… Continue reading Harvard Startup Says Its Smart Glasses Will Do “Vibe Thinking” for You
Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don’t Exist
If you’re trying to find out what a restaurant has to offer, you might look up its menu, or go to its Facebook page. Hell, you could call and ask. But that’s all démodé. Why not query an AI chatbot, a piece of software notorious for inventing facts out of the tokenized ether of the… Continue reading Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don’t Exist
Experts Horrified by AI-Powered Toys for Children
Though talking toys are nothing new, a fresh crop of AI-enabled playthings have entered the scene, making the “Chatty Cathy” and “Teddy Ruxpin” dolls of yesteryear, which were merely reciting pre-programmed phrases, look positively paleontological. More than a decade after “My Friend Cayla” — a Bluetooth-enabled and Wi-Fi-connected doll that became “verboten in Deutschland” in… Continue reading Experts Horrified by AI-Powered Toys for Children
Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights
In a blog post this week, Microsoft’s head of AI Mustafa Suleyman responded to the drastic rise in mental health crises stemming from AI use, calling for caution “about what happens in the run up towards superintelligence.” At the core of Suleyman’s argument isn’t the dystopian threat of AI gaining consciousness — an idea currently… Continue reading Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights
Scientists Say They’ve Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made
We’ve heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. Scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology say they’ve engineered a bacteria whose genetic code is more efficient than any other lifeform on Earth. They call their creation “Syn57,” a bioengineered strain of E. coli — yes, the same bad boy that can make… Continue reading Scientists Say They’ve Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made