The first time I used ChatGPT to code, back in early 2023, I was reminded of "The Monkey's Paw," a classic horror story about an accursed talisman that grants wishes, but always by the most malevolent path - the desired outcome arrives after exacting a brutal…

When people think of trillion-dollar companies, names like Apple, Microsoft, or NVIDIA usually come to mind. But halfway across the world, Taiwan has been building a tech giant of its own.  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) isn’t just a story…

Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, reports SWI as spotted by Engadget. The model’s source code, training data, model weights, and detailed…

Nauto's dashcam offers more than monitoring—it's about shaping safer driving habits with real-time alerts and coaching.

Zillow is launching an AI-powered feature that will allow home hunters to empty the room of furniture or subtly change the design style. The intent is to make it easier to overcome the owner’s dodgy design choices and questionable furniture so buyers can…

Preston and Jeff dive into the tech frontier expanding beyond Bitcoin into robotics, AI, and nuclear tech while exploring how decentralized systems shape our future economy and identity.

What you'll learn here:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:47 - Why Preston is…

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures power most of today’s frontier AI models, at least the ones which we are aware of, thanks to their open weights nature.  This includes models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI’s Kimi, and even the recently announced OpenAI’s…

Chinese tech behemoth Ant Group, which owns payment platform Alipay, has been showing off its first humanoid robot at tech conferences this month. It joins a growing wave of companies carving out space along a fresh frontier in automation by combining artificial…

a #ChatControl update (shared on the ISOC "Global Encryption Coalition" mailing list):

"The good news is that the blocking minority held. Members states raised concerns about privacy and cybersecurity as reasons for their opposition. Even countries that…