“The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,” Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It’s one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says it’s a nonprofit studying AIs’ … Read more
Matt Brittin, who joined the BBC from Google, argued that “not all creativity is bad,” while noting that the technology won’t replace humans.
Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of two people on his laptop.
Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps and ongoing tasks.
Razer’s DeathStalker V2 Pro is discounted in both black and white. | Image: The Verge Woot has the Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKL on sale for $130, a significant discount from its usual $219.99 price point. This keyboard is built for competitive gaming, with a low latency 2.4GHz wireless connection, and low-profile linear optical switches … Read more
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.
Like Muse, OpenAI’s Dots are represented by cute, customizable avatars. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is responding to Meta’s buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can “do nearly anything” across connected apps in the background … Read more
Bitwise’s NEAR ETF begins trading on NYSE Arca as the token rallies more than 160% over the past month and activity on NEAR Intents grows.
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On Tuesday, OpenAI’s annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. “Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit,” said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out “PEOPLE OVER PROFIT.” More than a dozen organizations came together to sponsor a rally outside … Read more
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Bitcoin is up 7.33% in September, edging past 2024 as the best September on record, with one day left before the monthly candle closes.
Prompt engineering in Amazon Quick determines how accurately and reliably the platform’s AI-powered features respond to your natural-language requests. Whether you’re building custom agents, authoring automation flows, or querying data through conversational analytics, the way you structure your prompts directly shapes the quality of the output you receive. In this post, you will learn the … Read more
In Part 1 of this series, we covered the foundational principles of prompt engineering in Amazon Quick: specificity, context-setting, few-shot examples, and the CRISPE framework for complex requests. Those principles apply universally. In this post, we go component by component, showing you how each Quick capability interprets prompts differently and what patterns get the best … Read more
Bitcoin failed to make another run at $85,000 as sellers held the line above current levels, while surging US bond yields weighed on stocks and precious metals.
Gracy Chen said she saw the 2025 Bybit hack as a “good reference point” for Bitget’s security breach, noting that only a small percentage of funds had been frozen or recovered.
Microsoft is officially announcing its new Xbox Mythic Achievements today, and they’re already available for Xbox Insiders to test. Mythic Achievements work a lot like Sony’s PlayStation Platinum trophies and are unlocked once you’ve earned every original achievement for a game. “Mythic Achievements have already been added to eligible games you completed in the past, … Read more
You’re a director of contracting, responsible for hundreds, maybe thousands, of vendor contracts. Each one is packed with critical data: contract values, expiration dates, signing status, and key contacts. With that information locked inside PDFs, you and your team spend hours manually extracting it, maintaining spreadsheets, and fielding the same recurring questions: “Which vendor are … Read more
The relaunched wallet hides payments made on the Aztec Network, while deposits from Ethereum remain visible.
Condé Nast’s editorial teams had no fast way to do multimodal video discovery. They were spending an average of 250 minutes per content discovery task, manually scrubbing through a library of more than 140,000 videos. They relied on titles and descriptions to find relevant clips. In a media environment where speed-to-market directly determines revenue capture, … Read more
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Every week, HackerNoon’s Top Writers ranking highlights the authors whose stories are getting the most attention from our readers. This week, we’re celebrating the writers who made the list, from a first-time author who shot straight to the top to some familiar names with impressive reading time under their belts. Here’s a look at this … Read more
I have spent eighteen years keeping enterprise systems running, and most of the last several of them on a global business intelligence platform that sits under a Fortune 500 company’s reporting, forecasting, and planning. Every line of business touches it. When it is late, people notice within minutes. The platform is not one thing. It … Read more
I recently wrote about a problem with how AI agents get authorized. Handing an agent a copy of an API key gives it a bearer credential, proof that whoever holds it is allowed to knock on the door, but it says nothing about what they’re allowed to do once they’re inside, or how fast you … Read more
In one of my earlier articles this year, I argued that AI became possible because of the data available on the internet and that we shouldn’t stop contributing to it. The more I think about it, the more I believe this is the single most important fact about AI that gets overlooked in conversations about … Read more
At the end of the first part of this series, I made a promise that sounds slightly contradictory. SkySim should run in a browser tab with nothing to install, and it should run real aerodynamics and hand the vehicle to actual flight-controller firmware. Accessible and serious, at the same time. If you try to satisfy … Read more