MacRumors interviewed AI critic Ed Zitron, author of the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast, about what could happen to Apple if the costly AI infrastructure boom collapses. Zitron argued that Apple is relatively well insulated because it has spent far less on data Read more…
The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn’t notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation. The agent — a program capable of making decisions and executing Read more…
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, and more than 20 other tech companies signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models, warning that broad limits could “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas.” They wrote that open-weight models strengthen competition and ensure that the benefits of Read more…
As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. “The world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf,” Read more…
If tired or wasted passengers fall asleep in a traditional taxi or rideshare, the driver can shout or shake them awake, not so in a robotaxi… Ditto Kasendar remembers soft music drifting from the robotaxi’s speakers as he rode home late at night from a friend’s birthday party in 2025. Read more…
Xi Jinping used his first appearance at China’s World AI Conference to promote a vision of low-cost, broadly accessible AI and call for international cooperation rather than technological rivalry. “AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” he said. Bloomberg Read more…
As smoke from hundreds of burning wildfires spread across Canada and the United States, the first three operational satellites in the Google-backed FireSat program successfully launched into orbit. The satellites will begin providing wildfire detection capable of spotting even small fires in the United States, Australia, and Europe before the Read more…