Technology
Aug 13, 2025
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.
Aug 13, 2025
Rubaya produces around 15% of the world’s coltan, all dug manually by impoverished locals who earn a few dollars per day. The area was seized in April 2024 by M23, a rebel group the United Nations says has plundered Rubaya’s riches to help fund its insurgency, backed by the government of neighboring Rwanda. The heavily-armed rebels, whose stated aim is to overthrow the government in Kinshasa and ensure the safety of the Congolese Tutsi minority, captured even more mineral-rich territory in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this year.
Aug 12, 2025
Aug 12, 2025
Chinese scientists have built a furry robot spy that sends data on the far-ranging and remote herds back to conservationists
Aug 12, 2025
Aug 12, 2025
Aug 12, 2025
Lucy was approached with the opportunity to become an AI model just like the celebrities she'd seen on her social media feed. But the easy money soon spiralled into a living nightmare
Aug 11, 2025
The hisses, pings and screeches that introduced millions of Americans to the online world will be retired in September
Aug 11, 2025
AI has moved on from answering questions. It’s now slipping coded messages to its friends about glue-eating and human extinction.
Aug 10, 2025
With time, and IPOs, many of today's private AI fortunes will eventually become more liquid, providing a historic opportunity for wealth management firms
Aug 10, 2025
Aug 10, 2025
Aug 8, 2025
Aug 7, 2025
Researchers are testing new ways to prevent and predict dangerous personality shifts in AI models before they occur in the wild.
Aug 7, 2025
Aug 7, 2025
Humans face three existential threats, from super-intelligence, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, says blockbuster director as he announces new Hiroshima project
Aug 7, 2025
Researchers are testing new ways to prevent and predict dangerous personality shifts in AI models before they occur in the wild.
Aug 7, 2025
Intel shares were under pressure Thursday after President Donald Trump called for the chipmaker's CEO to resign immediately.
Aug 7, 2025
This image by AFP photojournalist Omar al-Qattaa shows a skeletal, underfed girl in Gaza, where Israel's blockade has fuelled fears of mass famine in the Palestinian territory."Typically, when you look for the origin of an image, it might say: 'This photo could have been taken in Yemen, could have been taken in Gaza, could have been taken in pretty much any country where there is famine'."
Aug 6, 2025
Beckwith says no evidence of deepfake video shared in his office at Monday town hall meeting with staff member who, per sources, watched topless deepfake in April
Aug 6, 2025
Aug 6, 2025
Aug 5, 2025
A slur for robots and AI has emerged online in recent weeks, offering some sense of growing societal anxiety with increasingly capable technology.
Aug 5, 2025
A slur for robots and AI has emerged online in recent weeks, offering some sense of growing societal anxiety with increasingly capable technology.
Aug 5, 2025
Aug 4, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence assistants like ChatGPT are cutting into traditional online search traffic, depriving news sites of visitors and impacting the advertising revenue they desperately need, in a crushing blow to an industry already fighting for survival.This represents a devastating loss of visitors for online media sites that depend on traffic for both advertising revenue and subscription conversions.