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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daniel Min, the chief marketing officer at viral AI “cheating” startup Cluely. He’s based in New York City. The following has been edited for length and clarity.When I was 18, people would tell me to reach out to as many people as possible because they would view me as young and eager, and they would want to take a chance on me.So I did a lot of outreach that looked like the kind of messages I receive now: “Hey, I’m 18. I really admire the work that you do. Would love…
In humans, working memory — our ability to hold and use information in everyday life — is closely linked to general intelligence.That means the ability for AI to remember things could be the key to realizing a superintelligent AI, a still theoretical version of AI that reasons as well or better than humans.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks it’s hard to predict just how intelligent AI can really be because the possibilities of memory retention are limitless.”Even if you have the world’s best personal assistant, they don’t, they can’t remember every word you’ve ever said in your life, they can’t have read…
President Donald Trump’s deals with pharmaceutical companies are likely to have only a limited impact on Americans’ drug spending, experts say.Since Sept. 30, the Trump administration has struck deals with 14 drugmakers in exchange for tariff relief, according to the White House.The agreements — which haven’t gone into effect yet — adopt a “most favored nation” pricing model. They tie U.S. prices to those paid in other wealthy countries, lowering what Medicaid pays for the drugs, as well as offer discounts for people paying in cash through TrumpRx, a new self-pay platform.Most of the deals, however, don’t affect what people…
For years, Nvidia’s rise has been synonymous with one idea: GPUs are the engine of artificial intelligence. They powered the training boom that turned large language models from academic curiosities into trillion-dollar ambitions. But Nvidia’s $20 billion deal with Groq is an admission that the next phase of AI won’t be won by GPUs alone.Groq makes a very different type of AI chip called a Language Processing Unit, or LPU. To understand why Nvidia spent so much, and why it didn’t simply build this technology itself, you have to look at where AI workloads are heading. The industry is moving…
Microsoft wants to overhaul GitHub to compete with AI coding rivals and embrace AI agents, and the company has started reshuffling teams to make that happen, according to people familiar with the changes.GitHub is a leading software development platform that Microsoft acquired in 2018. GitHub had an early lead because of its popularity as a place to store code. Lately, though, GitHub has faced more competition from AI tools such as Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code.Microsoft in January 2025 formed a new group focused on building AI tools under ex-Facebook engineering boss Jay Parikh. The group, called CoreAI Platform and…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When a gunman began firing inside an academic building on the Brown University campus, students didn’t wait for official alerts warning of trouble. They got information almost instantly, in bits and bursts — through phones vibrating in pockets, messages from strangers, rumors that felt urgent because they might keep someone alive.On Dec. 13 as the attack at the Ivy League institution played out during finals week, students took to Sidechat, an anonymous, campus-specific message board used widely at U.S. colleges, for fast-flowing information in real time. An Associated Press analysis of nearly 8,000 posts from the…
Google and chatbot-building startup Character.AI have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits from families whose teenagers died by suicide or hurt themselves after interacting with Character.AI’s chatbots.These negotiations are among the first settlements in lawsuits that accuse AI tools of contributing to mental health crises and suicides among teenagers.OpenAI is facing a nearly identical lawsuit over the death of a 16-year-old, while Meta has come under scrutiny for letting its AI have provocative conversations with minors. As these companies race to develop and monetize their AI chatbots, they’re spending big to make large language models sound more friendly and helpful, and…
Matt Damon, 55, says he made a big diet change to prepare for his latest film, “The Odyssey.”He said cutting out gluten helped him slim down to 167 pounds, a weight he hadn’t been at since high school.Experts say gluten-free diets are not universally necessary for weight loss or better health.Matt Damon, 55, says one diet change left him lighter than he has been in years.During an appearance on Wednesday’s episode of the “New Heights” podcast, Damon spoke about how he prepared for his latest role in “The Odyssey.””I was in really good shape. I lost a lot of weight.…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Health tech gadgets displayed at the annual CES trade show make a lot of promises. A smart scale promoted a healthier lifestyle by scanning your feet to track your heart health, and an egg-shaped hormone tracker uses AI to help you figure out the best time to conceive.Tech and health experts, however, question the accuracy of products like these and warn of data privacy issues — especially as the federal government eases up on regulation.The Food and Drug Administration announced during the annual show in Las Vegas that it will relax regulations on “low-risk” general wellness…
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City judge on Wednesday ordered a mental health evaluation for a Massachusetts woman charged in the unprovoked stabbing of a tourist changing her baby’s diaper in a bathroom of Macy’s flagship store in midtown Manhattan around the holidays.Kerri Aherne, 43, of Tewksbury, will be examined by mental health professionals to determine whether she’s fit to stand trial, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.She pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, assault, endangering the welfare of a child and other charges during her arraignment Wednesday in Manhattan court.Aherne’s lawyer Kevin Sylvan didn’t immediately…