On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, titled Magnifica Humanitas, or magnificent humanity. The 83-page letter is about “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,”...
Since OpenClaw burst onto the scene as Clawdbot last November, individuals and businesses have embraced artificial intelligence agents to write code, send emails, run a shop, and more. AI agents...
Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a walkout by nearly 48,000 workers this week, after executives agreed to a tentative deal over bonus payments. But the labor union’s demand for a bigger...
In recent years, there have been several reminders of how interconnected the global economy is, and how fragile supply chains are. The shutdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic led to big...
Last month, Anthropic said its new artificial intelligence model, Mythos Preview, had discovered thousands of vulnerabilities in “every major operating system and web browser.” About 40 tech firms and institutions...
A Molotov cocktail-type device was flung at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. Days earlier, more than a dozen shots were fired at...
Hardly anyone would recognize Fabio Azevedo if they passed him on a street in São Paulo. When he begins to speak, however, everyone knows who he is: the voice of...
When scientist Catherine Nakalembe set out to map crop types in western Kenya, she had plenty of data from satellite images, but couldn’t use artificial intelligence to analyze it because...
In just the past week, France has banned its public officials from using American technology, more governments are considering keeping young people off Silicon Valley’s biggest social media platforms, and...
Within hours of the deal for TikTok’s U.S. operations being announced last week, Issam Hijazi noticed a big uptick in users to his social media platform UpScrolled. That stream of...
Amid rising concerns about people relying on ChatGPT for medical advice, OpenAI made its most significant push yet into health care. The company has launched a new feature called ChatGPT...
On paper, Singapore is a terrible location for a data center. With average temperatures hitting 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit) and relative humidity levels of above 80%, the country...
Artificial intelligence is one of the most researched fields in technology today. As more companies launch large language models and more users embrace generative AI, researchers are studying their potential...
It is the world’s most downloaded ride-hailing app after Uber, and inDrive’s founder and chief executive Arsen Tomsky wants to go bigger. Since its founding in Yakutsk in Siberia more...
Skype, the online video-calling service, is shutting down in May after more than two decades of service. For those of a certain generation, Skype changed everything. Before it launched in...
When do the U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect? The Donald Trump administration imposed new tariffs on China this week, with an additional 10% levy on all Chinese...