FRIDAY, 01 MAY 2026, 04:47
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a rule banning senators from trading on prediction markets effective immediately. CNBC reports: The move came amid rising concern about insider trading on prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, and about event contracts that can involve death or violence. On April 22, Kalshi said it had suspended and fined one U.S. Senate candidate and two...
Messages presented at trial reveal how Zilis, the mother of four of Musk’s children, acted as an intermediary between him and OpenAI.
In a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the origins of OpenAI are being examined. The Times’s technology reporter Cade Metz explains what’s behind it all.
It’s cheaper and faster to collect people’s opinions using AI, but will it make polls more accurate?
A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw dubbed “Copy Fail” can let a local, unprivileged attacker gain root access on major Linux distributions, with researchers claiming the bug affects kernels shipped since 2017. “The POC exploit works out of the box today, but a future version that can escape from containers like Docker is promised soon,” writes Slashdot reader tylerni7. “Technical details are...
Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts that AI adoption has happened faster than expected.
A new study from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess found that an OpenAI reasoning model outperformed experienced ER doctors at diagnosing and managing patient cases using messy, real-world emergency department records. Researchers say the results don’t support replacing doctors, but they do suggest AI could meaningfully reshape clinical workflows if tested carefully in...
French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old suspected of using the alias “breach3d” in connection with a cyberattack on France Titres (ANTS), the state agency that handles passports, ID cards, and other secure documents. The breach allegedly involved 12 million to 18 million lines of data offered for sale online, potentially affecting up to a third of France’s population if the records...
The Silicon Valley company, which is undergoing a chief executive transition, also reported a 19 percent increase in profit.
RightsCon, one of the world’s largest digital human rights conferences, was suddenly postponed by Zambia’s government just days before it was scheduled to begin in Lusaka. Officials cited unresolved speaker clearances and “thematic issues,” while Access Now said it had not yet received formal communication and was seeking an urgent meeting with the government. 404 Media reports: Minister of...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the company has reached further back than ever, releasing “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date” along with other documentation and notes...
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get into how the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial goes way beyond their rivalry and could have major implications both for OpenAI and also the AI industry at large.
New York, USA AequiSolva, a pioneer in high-integrity financial market infrastructure, today announced the production launch of its AI-Integrated Exchange Architecture. Centered on the proprietary Sentinel Stack™, the framework introduces the industry’s first integrated environment combining Deterministic Execution, AI-driven market surveillance, and the Omni-Attest Engine™ for...
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, Lotto Champ, an AI-powered software platform, has introduced a tool designed to assist lottery players in making more informed decisions when selecting numbers. By applying statistical analysis to historical lottery data, the platform generates structured number combinations, offering users an alternative to traditional random or preference-based selection methods. Lottery...
Gurgaon, India — Funding will accelerate development of Mojo AI – the agent that turns plain-English intent into on-chain DeFi execution on Solana. ChimpX today announced the close of a $2.8 million seed round. The round was led by Waterdrip Capital and MetaLabs Ventures, with participation from Mindfulness Capital, NEURALHASH Capital, Marshland Capital, Maven Capital, […]
The new film is the latest adaptation of George Orwell’s novel. Based on the critiques coming from right-wing influencers, it seems few of them fully grasp the book’s message.
One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.
Reuters reports that Charles Lieber, the former Harvard scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments and ties to China, is now leading China’s state-funded i-BRAIN lab in Shenzhen, where he has access to advanced nanofabrication tools and primate research facilities for brain-computer interface work. From the report: Charles Lieber, 67, is among the world’s leading...
Researchers say results mark a ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’
From George Clooney in ER to Noah Wyle in The Pitt, emergency department doctors have long been popular heroes. But will it soon be time to hang up the scrubs?
A groundbreaking Harvard study has found that AI systems outperformed human doctors in high-pressure emergency medicine triage, diagnosing more...
Why the terms “smart bed,” “adjustable mattress,” and “adjustable frame” are not interchangeable, and how to avoid an expensive mistake.
While answering questions under oath, Musk argued it’s standard practice for AI labs to use their competitors’ models.