18 Apr OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.
18 Apr AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.
18 Apr Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person?
17 Apr The Online Fiction Boom Reimagining China’s History Chinese fantasy novels reimagine the past with modern tech and ideology. A new book argues they also help reinforce authoritarian politics.
17 Apr Europe’s Online Age Verification App Is Here Available for free to any company that wants to use it, the “completely anonymous” app puts the pressure on porn sites and social media platforms to start blocking access by minors.
17 Apr Dark Matter May Be Made of Black Holes From Another Universe A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.
16 Apr AI Could Democratize One of Tech’s Most Valuable Resources AI is making it easier to design chips and optimize software for different silicon. Some startups envision a revolution in chipmaking.
16 Apr NASA Wants to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon The White House has announced that NASA will work with the Departments of Defense and Energy to put nuclear reactors in orbit and on the surface of the moon.
16 Apr ‘Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender’ Leaked Online. Some Fans Say Paramount Deserves the Fallout After the full movie leaked, animators mourned the chance to release their work as intended. Others feel the leak is justified in light of Paramount’s marketing blunders and association with Trump.
15 Apr In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy OpenAI says its safeguards “sufficiently reduce cyber risk” for now, while GPT-5.4-Cyber is a new cybersecurity-focused model.
