10 place 0

731 OpenAI Says China Launched Influence Campaign To Shape US Attitudes On AI Datacenters

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/11/2026 11:00 EDT

OpenAI Says China Launched Influence Campaign To Shape US Attitudes On AI Datacenters

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: China was likely behind an online influence operation to sway U.S. perceptions of artificial intelligence technology and reshape the debate in Washington around the infrastructure needed to support it, according to research from OpenAI published Wednesday. OpenAI said it caught the influence campaign because China-backed operatives were using ChatGPT to create content for the social media campaign. [...] OpenAI's researchers identified two clusters of ChatG

To see detailed statistics for the news please log in »

Read the original

Add your comment
You must be logged in with Facebook to read and write comments.

A newsletter a day!

You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.

or register

LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!

News from the same source
Slashdot Slashdot
Silicon Valley
George Avalos @ Silicon Valley 1 place · 02/07/2106 01:28 EDT

Newark apartment complex bought for much less than prior value

An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more

0

🔮
01.07.2026 ♋︎ Horoscope for Cancer Today The day promises to be quite challenging and filled with events... Read more ›
Silicon Valley
George Avalos @ Silicon Valley 2 place · 02/07/2106 01:28 EDT

PG&E buys San Jose building to bolster South Bay operations

A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more

0

Tech.eu
Cate Lawrence @ Tech.eu 1 place · 07/03/2026 05:36 EDT

Pytorch: the software layer underpinning Europe's AI ambitions

Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... Read more

0 fresh

Gizmodo
James Pero @ Gizmodo 1 place · today 16:20 EDT

Samsung’s Smart Glasses Could Team Up With Its Rings and Watches

Samsung could use its existing wearable ecosystem to give its first smart glasses an edge. Read more

0 newcommer

MacRumors
Juli Clover @ MacRumors 1 place · today 16:10 EDT

Elon Musk's SpaceX Showed Off Prototype AI Device

Elon Musk's SpaceX may be aiming to compete with Apple in the future. The company showed investors a prototype for a "handset-like device designed to reshape how humans interact with artificial intelligence," according to The Wall Street Journal. The device is described as being slimmer than an iPhone, with a "sleek design." It runs a proprietary operating system, has a Qualcomm chipset, and integrates AI tech from SpaceX subsidiary xAI.... Read more

0 fresh

The Verge
Emma Roth @ The Verge 1 place · today 16:10 EDT

Elon Musk denies a report about SpaceX’s AI phone prototype

Elon Musk says a report about a SpaceX AI phone prototype is "utterly false." The report, published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal, says SpaceX showed off a "handset-like prototype" to some investors before launching its record-breaking initial public offering in June. The device was "slimmer than an iPhone," and they were told it […] Read more

0 fresh

Android Authority
Edgar Cervantes @ Android Authority · today 16:09 EDT

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (July 1)

Here is a weekly selection of Android wallpapers created by our readers and members of the Android Authority team! Read more

0 fresh

Engadget
Engadget 1 place · today 16:09 EDT

SpaceX is reportedly testing a handheld AI device

A rumored SpaceX device could offer a way to access xAI's models without having to use a smartphone. Read more

0 fresh

TechRadar
TechRadar 1 place · today 16:05 EDT

Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute aims to compete with High Bandwidth Flash and Memory by stacking LPDDR just above the CPU to 'eliminate HBM tax'

Qualcomm's latest data center push centers around High Bandwidth Compute (HBC), which aims to address the ever-increasing costs of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Read more

0 fresh

Gizmodo
Webb Wright @ Gizmodo 2 place · today 16:05 EDT

Elon Musk Is Reportedly Showing Off an AI Device to Investors

You might one day be able to chat with Grok like Captain Kirk hailing the USS Enterprise. Would you really want to, though? Read more

0 fresh

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot 1 place · today 16:00 EDT

Scientists Made a Cell From Scratch For First Time

AleRunner writes: The first fully synthetic cell ("SpudCell") has been created in the Department of Genetics at the University of Minnesota. Strictly speaking, it's described as a "cell-like system constructed entirely from known chemical components that can perform a complete cell cycle." It is able to replicate, but only for approximately five generations. The key advance is that the cell is "built entirely bottom-up from individually purified, non-living components," although... Read more

0 fresh

TechRadar
TechRadar 2 place · today 16:00 EDT

The Razer Iskur V2 NewGen gaming chair shows that for premium comfort you really do have to pay a premium price

The Razer Iskur V2 NewGen gaming chair builds on an already decent seat by adding an impressive bunch of new features to help justify its premium price. Read more

0 fresh

Gizmodo
Germain Lussier @ Gizmodo 3 place · today 16:00 EDT

Zach Cregger to Write What Could Potentially Be the Next ‘Backrooms’

Cregger and Brian Duffield will co-write 'Siren Head,' based on the viral YouTube horror short. Read more

0 fresh

Digital Trends
Shikhar Mehrotra @ Digital Trends 1 place · today 15:58 EDT

The iPhone 18 Pro could launch in these three colors, and black still isn’t one of them

Dark Cherry, Light Blue, and Silver-Gray could be the only iPhone 18 Pro colors, and black is once again absent from the lineup, according to the latest leak. Read more

0 fresh

Gizmodo
Gayoung Lee @ Gizmodo · today 15:55 EDT

Physicists Devise Black Hole Alternative With a ‘Mini Universe’ at Its Center

A new paper tries to show how 'gravastars' might mimic black holes without breaking relativity. Read more

0 fresh

Droid Life
Tim @ Droid Life 1 place · today 15:55 EDT

Samsung Begins Teasing ‘New Shape’ for Galaxy Z Fold 8

Samsung recently wiped its Instagram feeds, but now the company is posting again, teasing its upcoming foldables. The company is going hard on the “new shape” for Galaxy Z Fold 8, which will be the wide body foldable that we’ve seen already quite a few times. We have gone ahead and linked to a few... Read the original post: Samsung Begins Teasing ‘New Shape’ for Galaxy Z Fold 8 Read more

0 fresh

The most popular news from the same source for the last week
Slashdot Slashdot
Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/24/2026 16:00 EDT

OpenAI Unveils First Chip As Part of Broadcom Deal

OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI's first custom AI chip, designed primarily to handle inference for ChatGPT and other services. It's a major step in OpenAI's plan to "build the full stack behind its models and products," says OpenAI. "By designing more of the stack ourselves, we can serve more intelligence with greater efficiency and keep pushing advanced AI toward broader access." CNBC reports: The chip with Broadcom is... Read more

0

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/24/2026 17:00 EDT

GTA VI Is a Worrying Sign For the Future of Physical Games

Rockstar Games has revealed the price of Grand Theft Auto VI to be $79.99, and confirmed that the physical versions of the game won't include a disc. Instead, they'll contain a one-time download code when it launches November 19. "Not only is that a disappointing decision for people who like to own physical games, but given the scale of the next GTA, it also sets a bad precedent for the... Read more

0

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/24/2026 18:00 EDT

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

Meta has paused its Model Compatibility Initiative that tracked employee mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen content to train AI agents, after some of its collected data became accessible to more employees than intended. Meta says it has no evidence the information was improperly accessed and will not restart the program until it is confident in its safeguards. Wired reports: Meta rolled out the Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) tool in... Read more

0

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/24/2026 19:00 EDT

Slate Auto's Radically Simple Electric Truck Starts At $24,950

Slate Auto says its stripped-down electric pickup will start at $24,950 before fees, with the base model's estimated range increased from 150 to about 205 miles. The company has started taking preorders on Wednesday. "The aggressive pricing -- half the average cost of a new car in the United States -- puts Slate in position to capture a share of the lowest end of the new car market, which has... Read more

0

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/24/2026 23:30 EDT

Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI Are Backing Effort To Stop Respiratory Infections

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: [T]he payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, says it will fund a new $500 million nonprofit whose goal is preventing both the common cold and the flu. Its eventual aim is to get rid of respiratory viruses altogether. The new organization, called Intercept, will use grants and investments to back prevention approaches, including vaccines, as well... Read more

0

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/25/2026 03:00 EDT

NASA Rover Detects Potential Signatures of Ancient Microbial Life On Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected complex organic carbon in ancient Martian mudstones. The measurements were taken by the rover's Sherloc instrument and the organic carbon that was identified was from the Bright Angel outcrop, "a dried-up river that carried water into the planet's Jezero crater billions of years ago," notes The Guardian. From the report: The form of carbon detected, known as macromolecular carbon or MMC, can originate from living... Read more

0

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/25/2026 07:00 EDT

New Study Shows That Tall Vehicle Hoods Cause Hundreds More Deaths Per Year

joshuark shares a report from Car and Driver: A new study conducted by the New York Times shows that the increase in vehicle hood height seen over the last two and a half decades, mainly due to the rise in popularity of large SUVs and trucks, has resulted in several thousand deaths that otherwise may not have happened. The study shows that while automakers and regulators have focused on occupant... Read more

0

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/25/2026 11:00 EDT

Google Starts Lowering Play Store Fees, Making Good On Epic Games Settlement

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google spent the last few years locked in a legal grudge match with Epic Games, which claimed that Google's stewardship of the Play Store was anticompetitive. Now, the companies are thick as thieves, and Google is beginning to implement app store changes as agreed in its settlement with Epic. The lower developer fees and new payment options that Google promised are... Read more

0

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/25/2026 12:00 EDT

Micron Locks In Historically High Memory Prices For Five Years

Micron has signed 16 "strategic customer agreements" (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with "a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle." Most of the deals run through 2030 and cover about 40% of Micron's revenue. The Register reports: Micron CEO, president and chairman Sanjay Mehrotra explained the SCAs in prepared remarks delivered during the company's Q3... Read more

0

Slashdot
BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/25/2026 13:00 EDT

Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Fails To Preserve Expertise or Train Juniors

After Ford's automated quality-control systems and AI tools fell short, the automaker hired 350 veteran engineers over the past three years to mentor younger staff and reprogram the underperforming technology. "Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it's only as good as the information you use to train it," Charles Poon, Ford's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters on a call Wednesday. "Over prior years, we didn't pay... Read more

0

Most popular sources

  • You see 898 news out of 898.
  • Sources 61 out of 61.
ScienceDaily 0%
Wired 0%
Startup News 0%
Tech Wire Asia 0%
Irish Tech News 0%
View sources »

LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!

01.07.2026 16:34
Last update: 16:25 EDT.
News rating updated: 23:25.

What is Times42?

Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.


Times42 © 2026