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Plenty of people lean on AI to draft a tricky email or win a debate after a couple of drinks, but Joanna Stern went much further—she let it shape nearly every corner of her life for a full year, and…
Security specialists have issued fresh guidance after Meta made changes to Instagram direct messages, warning that chats may be less private than many users assume. Meta, the company behind Facebook and WhatsApp, removed end-to-end encryption (E2EE) from Instagram DMs last…
Sam Altman’s major prediction about when AI will surpass human intelligence has been responded to – by AI itself. OpenAI CEO and ChatGPT creator Sam Altman has repeatedly spoken candidly about the risks and uncertainties tied to the technology his…
Yoshua Bengio, widely regarded as one of the founding figures of modern AI, has warned that the accelerating fight for dominance among major tech companies could increase the risk of outcomes as severe as human extinction. Bengio, a professor at…
A commencement address at the University of Central Florida drew loud boos after the speaker launched into comments about artificial intelligence. Gloria Caulfield, a real estate development executive, took the stage for UCF’s Friday evening ceremony (May 8) and spoke…
Apple’s newest iPhone software update introduces a major shift in how messages are handled, helping bring different phone platforms closer together. iOS 26.5 rolled out to iPhones on Monday (May 11). Although a number of the tools arriving with the…
Microsoft founder Bill Gates made a striking prediction about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) could reshape the workforce — and ChatGPT has now responded. Gates drew attention last year after suggesting that a growing number of roles may no longer need…
The AI-made lingerie images of Giorgia Meloni may have caused outrage, but a leading deepfake researcher says the situation that enabled them has been building for years — and was never a surprise. Dr Henry Adjer has spent close to…
Millions of viewers could find themselves unable to use HBO Max following a recent app update. Anyone streaming titles such as The White Lotus, Euphoria, or the Harry Potter films through an Amazon Fire Stick may have noticed their access…
Apple has agreed to a multi-million dollar payout to terminate a class action lawsuit that accuses them of misleading people about Artificial Intelligence features of the Iphone. In court documents filed in federal court in California, the tech company was…
Shark Tank investor and consumer-products expert Lori Greiner is urging people who use the world’s biggest email platform to check a little-known setting she says could expose sensitive messages to AI scanning. Greiner claims many of Gmail’s roughly 1.8 billion…
Is AI taking over the planet? Not exactly… at least not yet. Sure, millions of people now use ChatGPT to draft emails, cut corners on homework, and even debate a bot at 2am. But there’s another reality: tens of millions…
For a lot of people, job hunting follows a familiar routine: hours spent polishing a CV, stressing over cover letters, and sending application after application into what feels like a void. One Reddit user decided there had to be a…
An archeologist claims to have guess the location of a ‘lost ark’. For generations, few religious artefacts have intrigued people as much as the Ark of the Covenant—fuel for countless novels, documentaries and big-screen adventures, including the Indiana Jones films…
Apple has announced that CEO Tim Cook will step down after 15 years at the helm, with John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, set to take over. Cook became Apple’s chief executive in 2011 following Steve…
Reese Witherspoon has found herself responding to criticism after a social media post about artificial intelligence sparked debate online. The discussion began on April 16, when the Legally Blonde actor uploaded an Instagram video encouraging women to consider using AI…