Mr. Altman discussed President Trump’s understanding of artificial intelligence, the war for A.I. talent and OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft.

The fourth mission by the company Axiom Space will help the three countries get to the International Space Station for the first time.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A massive data center for Meta’s AI will likely lead to rate hikes for Louisiana customers, but Meta wants to keep the details under wraps. Holly Ridge is a rural community bisected by US Highway 80, gridded with farmland, with a big creek — it is literally named Big Creek — running through it. It is home to rice and grain mills and an...

The Register’s Simon Sharwood reports: Huawei’s chairman Xu Zhijun — aka Eric Xu — has called out China’s enormous lead in fiber-to-the-room (FTTR) installations. Speaking at last week’s Mobile World Congress event in Shanghai, Xu shared his views on the telecommunications industry’s future growth opportunities and said by the end of 2025 China will be home to 75 million FTTR installations —...

Longtime Slashdot reader williamyf writes: Firefox 140 just landed. Some user-facing features include: Vertical Tabs: You can now keep more — or fewer — pinned tabs in view for quicker access to important windows. Just drag the divider to resize your pinned tabs section.Unload Tabs: You can now unload tabs by right-clicking on a tab (or multiple selected tabs) and selecting “Unload Tab.” This...

Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Robotics On-Device, a new language model that enables robots to perform complex tasks locally without internet connectivity. TechCrunch reports: Building on the company’s previous Gemini Robotics model that was released in March, Gemini Robotics On-Device can control a robot’s movements. Developers can control and fine-tune the model to suit various needs...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Microsoft is planning to cut jobs in the company’s Xbox gaming business, as early as next week. I first reported in Notepad earlier this month that Microsoft was planning Xbox layoffs “potentially by the end of the month,” and now Bloomberg says a round of “major layoffs” is due next week. I understand managers at Microsoft have been briefed...

Waymo and Uber have launched a robotaxi service in Atlanta, allowing users to book autonomous rides through the Uber app across a 65-square-mile area. They will not yet travel on highways or to the airport. CNBC reports: The vehicles feature Waymo’s driverless technology, known as the Waymo Driver, integrated into battery electric Jaguar I-PACE SUVs. […] In Atlanta and Austin, Waymo rides are...

Microsoft has released a modern, open-source version of its classic MS-DOS Editor — built with Rust and compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux. It’s now simple called “Edit.” Ars Technica reports: Aside from ease of use, Microsoft’s main reason for creating the new version of Edit stems from a peculiar gap in modern Windows. “What motivated us to build Edit was the need for a default CLI...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Transport Topics: A ship that caught fire in the Pacific Ocean earlier this month has sunk. The vessel was abandoned in the middle of the pacific — about 360 miles from land — after a blaze. It was carrying about 3,000 vehicles of which about 800 were EVs. Damage caused by the fire was compounded by heavy weather, causing the ship to take on water and...

More than 110 million people across Europe suffer high levels of health-damaging noise pollution, according to a report. The resulting physiological stress and sleep disturbance leads to 66,000 early deaths a year and many cases of heart disease, diabetes and depression. The Guardian: The report, from the European Environment Agency (EEA), focuses on noise from cars, trains and aeroplanes and...