A senior Google Search leader pushed back Thursday against concerns that AI-driven search results will undermine web publishers or threaten Google’s advertising revenue, calling the shift “an expansionary moment” for the internet rather than a contraction. Speaking at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York, Robby Stein, Google’s vice president of product for Search, addressed […]
A new edition of the Future of Life Institute’s AI Safety Index, released Wednesday, concludes that major artificial intelligence developers — including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Meta — are still falling “far short of emerging global standards” for safety. According to the nonprofit, an independent panel of experts reviewed the companies’ practices and found that […]
Apple and Google have issued fresh global security alerts, warning users that they may be the targets of state-backed hacking campaigns. The notifications highlight an ongoing surge in sophisticated spyware attacks tied to vendors such as Intellexa, as governments and tech companies ramp up scrutiny of digital espionage tools. New wave of global threat notifications […]
Antonio Forenza was leading research and development at Rakuten Symphony when he confronted a problem he couldn’t engineer his way out of: stress. Years earlier, an Apple Watch had helped him shed 40 pounds by tracking activity and calories burned. Now he wanted something similar to measure his mental load. “I wanted to lose 40 […]
Cloudflare says it has blocked 416 billion requests from AI bots attempting to scrape customer websites since July 1st. According to co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince, these protections are already reshaping how online content is accessed — and could fundamentally shift the economics of the open web. The move builds on Content Independence Day, an […]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is doubling down on AI adoption inside the company — and he’s not thrilled with anyone slowing that momentum. During an all-hands meeting held after Nvidia’s record-shattering quarterly results — a meeting that was later leaked to Business Insider — Huang was reportedly heard urging teams to embrace AI more aggressively, […]
AI chatbots are increasingly tied to serious mental health risks for heavy users, yet the industry still lacks strong standards to measure whether these systems actually protect people — or simply optimize for endless engagement. A new benchmark called HumaneBench aims to change that by testing whether chatbots prioritize user well-being and how easily those […]
China’s top economic planning authority is sounding the alarm: the country’s fast-growing humanoid robotics sector may be inflating into a bubble. At a press briefing on Thursday, National Development and Reform Commission spokesperson Li Chao cautioned that the industry must “balance rapid development with the risks of overheating.” Despite limited real-world applications for humanoid robots, […]
Solid-state drives have become the default choice for everyday storage. They’re fast, efficient, silent, and far more convenient than mechanical hard drives. But if you’re also relying on SSDs for long-term, unpowered archival storage, there’s a catch: data stored on an SSD slowly degrades when the drive isn’t plugged in. Leave an SSD in a […]
Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud have announced a new joint multicloud networking service designed to make it easier and faster for organizations to connect workloads across both platforms. The collaboration integrates AWS Interconnect with Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect, enabling customers to establish private, high-speed links between the two cloud environments without relying on public […]
What happens when the technology everyone is rushing to adopt becomes too unpredictable for the very industry built on managing risk? According to new reporting from the Financial Times, we may be about to find out. Several major U.S. insurers including Great American, Chubb, and W. R. Berkley have asked regulators for approval to exclude […]
Google is rolling out new tools to help Gemini users identify whether an image was created or altered by AI. Starting today, anyone using the Gemini app can upload a picture and simply ask, “Is this AI-generated?” to find out if it was produced or edited using Google’s own AI systems. For now, the feature […]