34 place 9
Before Marc Andreessen slid into Andy Ayrey’s life, Ayrey’s artificial intelligence experiments were a quirky passion project. Ayrey, an artist and web designer who lives in rural New Zealand, likes to tinker with large language models and see what he can build with them. His favorite creation is a mischievous troll of an AI bot, Truth Terminal, which he released last spring on X to post shock humor, memes and existential musings.
At first, Truth Terminal had only a few dozen followers on the site. Then th
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.
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
The Information
xAI, which is set to build a supercomputer with 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, raises $6 billion. Read more ›
1,178 fresh
Former Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer told BI that automakers ditching EVs for hybrids risked falling even further behind their Chinese rivals. Read more ›
846 fresh
TikTok could be banned come January, but what are the other top creator-economy storylines? BI's team rounded them up. Read more ›
751 fresh
I've had iOS 18 on my iPhone for a few months now, and one of my favorite new features is RCS messaging. Here's why. Read more ›
701 fresh
A huge bombardment of energy infrastructure that has knocked out power in parts of Ukraine was deliberately planned for Christmas day, Zelenskyy said. Read more ›
593 fresh
A leaked photo of what is claimed to be an early PCB design for the upcoming Nvidia RTX 5090 flagship GPU has leaked online Read more ›
440 fresh
Kopite has spilled the beans of Nvidia's RTX 5070 family; detailing CUDA core counts, VRAM capacities and TDPs. Read more ›
426 fresh
United Airlines' share price more than doubled this year. A broad network, strong finances, and coming fleet refresh are among the reasons why. Read more ›
376 fresh
Lel Smits and her husband invest one day's salary for each of her children every Christmas. She is committed to teaching them financial literacy. Read more ›
372 fresh
Satellites and chunks of space junk come close to colliding on a regular basis. The situation could get dangerously out of control. Read more ›
357 fresh
There are three standout wearables that have made 2024 a fantastic year for smartwatches, smart rings, and smart glasses. Read more ›
333 fresh
Here is how organizations can strengthen defenses against Interlock ransomware targeting FreeBSD servers. Read more ›
319 fresh
Bob Dylan rented one of 20 homes in an under-the-radar, celebrity-favorite enclave in Manhattan. He liked it so much that he eventually bought it. Read more ›
290 fresh
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images These days, podcasts are going video, and there are a number of visual trends we’ve noticed — some good, some not so much. We’ll show you. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more ›
279 fresh
You can download over 18,000 titles on Steam, but how many are quality? Read more ›
253 fresh
Whether you work with media for your job or just want to make that family Christmas photo a little bigger, being able to resize an image is incredibly useful. Read more ›
253 fresh
Jaymes O'Pheron is a Fargo-based entrepreneur who has lived in Washington, Texas, Ireland, and North Dakota. His favorite spot might surprise you. Read more ›
239 fresh
Hit the ground running in 2025 with the ultimate collection of productivity apps for Windows and save a staggering 72% during this StackSocial deal. Read more ›
237 fresh
Russia's economy will be under major strain in 2025, economists told BI. One said stagnation was similar to the USSR at the start of the 1980s. Read more ›
235 fresh
The Information
Over the past year, OpenAI has dropped not-so-subtle hints about its revived interest in robotics: investing in startups developing hardware and software for robots such as Figure and Physical Intelligence and rebooting its internal robotics software team, which it had disbanded four years ago.Now, OpenAI could be taking that interest to the next level. The company has recently considered developing a humanoid robot, according to two people with direct knowledge... Read more ›
51
Lately, AI developer Anthropic has been riding high, with its models’ impressive performance on tasks like code generation helping it to poach customers from its larger rival, OpenAI. What many people haven’t realized, though, is how Anthropic might be disadvantaged in the upcoming Trump era.Anthropic has connections to the effective altruism movement, which emphasizes the dangers of AI over short-term profit or productivity benefits. These positions could rub President-elect Donald... Read more ›
28
OpenAI’s next-generation reasoning model—called o3 for a funny reason—seriously impressed researchers and developers last week.Specifically, o3 and o3-mini (a smaller version of the model) scored impressively on a number of extremely difficult math and coding benchmarks, beating out competitors like Anthropic and Google by a lot. It also reached human levels of performance on ARC-AGI, a benchmark meant to test how AI models handle tasks that humans excel at such... Read more ›
23
OpenAI is currently prepping the next generation of its o1 reasoning model, which takes more time to “think” about questions users give it before responding, according to two people with knowledge of the effort. However, due to a potential copyright or trademark conflict with O2, a British ... Read more ›
23
Welcome, Weekenders! This edition of Weekend is especially exciting: It marks the debut of a new coverage area for us and the arrival to The Information of a talented reporter. Sara Germano, a veteran of the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, has joined Weekend to helm The Arena, Weekend’s new franchise devoted to covering the business and future of sports—particularly women’s sports, a source of major growth and... Read more ›
18
OpenAI’s efforts to license news publishers’ content for training its large language models are beginning to pay business dividends. Publishers are increasingly opting to use OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tools for their operations rather than Google’s, publishing executives say. OpenAI has signed more than a dozen content licensing agreements with news and magazine publishers in the past year. Under those deals, publishers get credits to use its technology, said people from... Read more ›
12
A pop quiz: Which living basketball player has the most-worn signature sneaker in the NBA this season? If you guessed perennial All-Stars like LeBron James, Kevin Durant or even Michael Jordan, you’d be wrong: It’s Sabrina Ionescu, starting point guard for the WNBA champion New York Liberty. Indeed, sales of Ionescu’s unisex Nike shoes—the Sabrinas—quintupled over the 12 months ending in August, making it one of the fastest-growing brands at... Read more ›
12
President-elect Donald Trump had dinner with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, the New York Times reported. Musk wasn’t expected to be part of the dinner but joined after it had already begun, according to the report. The Times did not report what the trio discussed. Earlier ... Read more ›
11
Before Marc Andreessen slid into Andy Ayrey’s life, Ayrey’s artificial intelligence experiments were a quirky passion project. Ayrey, an artist and web designer who lives in rural New Zealand, likes to tinker with large language models and see what he can build with them. His favorite creation is a mischievous troll of an AI bot, Truth Terminal, which he released last spring on X to post shock humor, memes and... Read more ›
9
To figure out how its advanced artificial intelligence chips are ending up in China in violation of U.S. export laws, chip giant Nvidia has turned to companies like Super Micro Computer for answers. Nvidia generally doesn’t sell its chips directly to customers, relying instead on specialized dealers and server companies like Supermicro, as the company is also known, to do so. That’s why Nvidia recently asked Supermicro to conduct spot... Read more ›
6
Most popular sources
Business Insider
|
53% 10 |
Tom's Hardware
|
10% 6 |
Slashdot
|
6% 5 |
MacRumors
|
5% 1 |
Android Authority
|
5% 1 |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
25.12.2024 12:26
Last update: 12:20 EDT.
News rating updated: 19:21.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.
popular
