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OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days”

Enlarge (credit: andresr via Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined his vision for an AI-driven future of tech progress and global prosperity in a new personal blog post titled "The…

Broadcom responds to AT&T’s VMware support lawsuit: AT&T has “other options”

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Broadcom is accusing AT&T of trying to "rewind the clock and force" Broadcom "to sell support services for perpetual software licenses ... that VMware has discontinued from its product line…

When you call a restaurant, you might be chatting with an AI host

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Juj Winn) A pleasant female voice greets me over the phone. “Hi, I’m an assistant named Jasmine for Bodega,” the voice says. “How can I help?” “Do you…

Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Certificate authorities and browser makers are planning to end the use of WHOIS data verifying domain ownership following a report that demonstrated how threat actors could abuse the process…

NC governor candidate cries AI fabrication as defense for racist porn forum posts

Enlarge / Mark Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina and candidate for governor, delivers remarks prior to Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaking at a campaign event at Harrah's Cherokee Center…

Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating

Enlarge (credit: ChromaDev) On Saturday, a YouTube creator called "ChromaLock" published a video detailing how he modified a Texas Instruments TI-84 graphing calculator to connect to the Internet and access OpenAI's ChatGPT, potentially…

AI’s hungry maw drives massive $100B investment plan by Microsoft and BlackRock

Enlarge (credit: J Studios via Getty Images) If you haven't noticed by now, Big Tech companies have been making plans to invest in the infrastructure necessary to deliver generative AI products like ChatGPT…

Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel after decades of debate

Enlarge / Cutting metal with lasers is hard, but even harder when you don't know the worst-case timings of your code. (credit: Getty Images) As is so often the case, a notable change…

Ever wonder how crooks get the credentials to unlock stolen phones?

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A coalition of law-enforcement agencies said it shut down a service that facilitated the unlocking of more than 1.2 million stolen or lost mobile phones so they could be…

Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps

Enlarge / The Windows App runs on Windows, but also macOS, iOS/iPadOS, web browsers, and Android. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft announced today that it's releasing a new app called Windows App as an app…