OpenAI announced a new initiative on Monday designed to help the open source community improve its cybersecurity game and ward off bugs. “Patch the Planet” (which is a not-so-subtle allusion to “Hack the Planet,” the…
At 22, Ethan Thornton left MIT to construct weapons. The initial attempt, a hydrogen-powered system he created using Home Depot and Amazon components, was unsuccessful – “hydrogen was not a wise choice overall,” he expressed…
In Summary. Posted:. 11:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, June 21, 2026. The co-founder of Ubisoft, a French video game company, Claude Guillemot, passed away at 69 years old. He was killed in a plane crash…
In Summary. Posted:. 9:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, June 21, 2026. The Wall Street Journal has conducted a new investigation, revealing that Polymarket has been compensating online creators to create misleading videos showcasing them profitably…
In Brief. Posted:. 1:32 PM PDT · June 20, 2026. Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are not your friends. These are not conscious…
Anyone who’s Googled themselves recently knows that it doesn’t quite hit the way it used to. Sure, there’s everything going on with Google search itself, but there’s also an inescapable feeling that web search isn’t…
Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in Los Angeles, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for a conversation that kept circling back to a question that…
In Summary. Posted:. 9:39 AM PDT, June 20, 2026. John Jumper, a recent Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, revealed on Friday his transition to Anthropic following almost a decade at Google DeepMind. In a post…
Apple recently unveiled its new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence at WWDC, but the tech company also included several improvements in its everyday apps and services in iOS 27. These upgrades consist of enhanced bill…
You’ve probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it’s been downloaded more than 6 billion times. But according to its lead developer, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, robots will soon…