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Engineer Identifies and Explains Every '90s Computer Seen in Jurassic Park

Everything in the set was real. We couldn’t fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers. All told, $875,000 worth of computer hardware loaned by Silicon Graphics, $350,000 worth from Apple and some $500,000 in additional hardware and software went into equipping both the set and off-stage control room.

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.

How to make AI safe—and lessen dependence on America and China

PROGRESS IS rapidly being made towards regulating the release of powerful new AI models in America. Its government is set to soon outline its plan, after taking suggestions from the industry. Speaking to The Economist this week Sir Demis Hassabis, the boss of Google DeepMind, pitched a hybrid public-private regulator for the industry, echoing our own thoughts. The regulator is modelled on the agency that regulates brokers and stock markets.

AI Slop Movies Are the New Direct-to-Video Cash Grabs

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Dan Ives and Trump family-linked securities group launch AI bank, because why not?

Ives and Yorkville. Name a more iconic duo

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.

The CEO of a vibe-coding startup Emergent shares what he looks for in developers in the AI era

Mukund Jha said he expects demand for software to "exponentially increase."

OpenAI trained an AI for red-teaming AI.

The new GPT-Red model “can break nearly all models it is pitted against,” according to an OpenAI blog post on Wednesday. OpenAI says it used GPT-Red to find vulnerabilities in GPT-5.6 Sol, a process that made it the company’s “most robust model to prompt injections to date.”

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines draws from Chinese rivals in debut AI model

Former OpenAI CTO's start-up raised $2bn last year at $12bn valuation

Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II

The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite.

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Debuts First AI Model

Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO (and, briefly, CEO during Sam Altman’s ouster in 2023), wrote on X that the open-weight model, called “Inkling,” was trained from scratch. Judging by the official blog post, though, it seemed like the company was purposefully setting expectations for Inkling low: “It is not the most performant model available today, closed or open … We trained Inkling for solid capabilities across the board rather than state-of-the-art performance in a single area, to serve as a foundation for the models we will train in the future.”

The CEO of a startup helping non-techies code still sees a lot of value in engineering degrees

The CEO of vibe-coding startup Emergent, Mukund Jha, joins BI's Dan DeFrancesco to discuss his company's exponential growth.