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Private Playground Returning president Donald Trump is preparing to approve a $500 billion investment into private sector-developed AI infrastructure, according to reporting from CBS. Per CBS, the project is a joint venture between ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the Japanese investment group SoftBank, and the software behemoth Oracle, and will see the building of […]

"The Brutalist" director Brady Corbet has confirmed that his critically acclaimed historical drama used AI in post to clean up Andrien Brody's and Felicity Jones' Hungarian accents — though he has downplayed the impact it had on the authenticity of their acting. "Adrien and Felicity's performances are completely their own. They worked for months with […]

Spy Chat The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been stepping up its efforts to keep up with advances in AI — and has developed a particularly spy-tastic way of using chatbots. As the New York Times reports, the CIA has been quietly developing a chatbot that helps analysts "talk to" foreign leaders and predict how they may react in certain […]

  Chinese carmaker BYD recently unveiled the Yangwang U9, a fully-electric hypercar that has a crazy trick up its sleeve. As a promotional video shows off, the Yangwang U9 can bunny hop over small obstacles — including large potholes and even road spikes designed to slow speeding vehicles — thanks to an active suspension setup. BYD goes as far as to […]

President Trump's second term is underway, and this time he has a veritable toybox of tech to play with — to say nothing of the Big Tech moguls lining up for an expedited pass to a top-secret security clearance. As the world waits with bated breath to see what wild promises the US's 47th president will deliver on — like his 25% tariff on incoming goods […]

Mere hours after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, returning President Donald Trump quickly got to work signing off on dozens — and counting — executive orders, which range from commands for the US to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization to ordering an end to birthright […]

Something seriously bizarre was going on with Elon Musk during Donald Trump's inaugural festivities — and we're not just talking about that seeming Sieg Heil. In videos posted on X-formerly-Twitter and Bluesky, Musk was seen from multiple angles rolling his eyes and neck during Trump's inauguration, which took place blocks away and hours before his […]

After being exposed by the gaming community for paying other gamers to make it look like he was good at video games, multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk threw a massive tantrum last week. The evidence was so damning, netizens spotted one of Musk's extremely high-level characters in the recently released free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) […]

  AI industry leaders are excited to start replacing "midlevel engineers" with next-level generative AI agents. And, if a recent column by Axios cofounder Mike Allen and CEO Jim VandeHei is to be believed, OpenAI is ready to take a big step towards such a future in a matter of "weeks." According to the column, OpenAI "will announce a next-level […]

Blabbermouth Sage Group, a software company and self-described "leader" in accounting and financial tech for small to medium-sized businesses, temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot AI assistant after it was caught freely giving out customer's financial records, The Register reports. All you had to do to get this information, which allegedly included recent […]