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The OpenAI Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion this year


The nonprofit that controls OpenAI has outlined four programme areas, Alzheimer’s, jobs, AI resilience, and community, and brought on two senior hires to run the biggest of them. The gap between its charitable history and its new ambitions is the most striking number in their announcement. When OpenAI moved its operational activities into a for-profit […]



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Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of "AGI Deployment" (Alex Heath/Sources)

Alex Heath / Sources:
Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of “AGI Deployment”  —  It's about GPUs.  Also: CPUs are back, Meta's big stock awards, a CEO actually not blaming AI for layoffs, and more.

This team password manager costs $1.50/user and just added the features businesses actually need


Somewhere in your company right now, someone is sharing a login credential through Slack, a sticky note, or a spreadsheet named “passwords_final_v3.” You know it. They know it. And eventually, an attacker will know it too. This article contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at […]



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How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world at high risk of slipping by analyzing data from satellites and ground-based sensors (Chris Baraniuk/BBC)

Chris Baraniuk / BBC:
How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world at high risk of slipping by analyzing data from satellites and ground-based sensors  —  Sudden and unexpected, landslides and avalanches claim thousands of lives each year and cause billions of dollars in damage.

Large US corporations are not ditching core business software for AI yet, instead seeking better vendor deals and "vibe-coding" smaller apps and customizations (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Large US corporations are not ditching core business software for AI yet, instead seeking better vendor deals and “vibe-coding” smaller apps and customizations  —  Tech leaders at large corporations say that, for now, they're vibe-coding their own small, custom apps, and putting pressure on their software vendors