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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seemed excited to share what he called a “cool use case” on Friday, posting that parents could “connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests” to the company’s new product ChatGPT Work, then “every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’s upcoming birthday, some news, etc.” Altman’s post prompted lots of virtual eye-rolling, including a simple response from Alex Hirsch, creator of the animated series “Gravity Falls”: “What if you just talked to your children”? Hirsch’s question seems to have…
Screen-time apps aren’t effective for many people because, in the end, they depend on your willpower. They remind you to stop scrolling or let you set timers, but such notifications can be easy to ignore. Autonomous Key takes a different approach to this issue simply by being a physical device. It’s an NFC key that pairs with a companion app to let you lock away distracting apps. So instead of tapping a button to bypass the block, you have to physically scan the key with your phone to regain access to your locked apps. Each unlock session can last for…
Ty Geri always tells ChatGPT: “Please impress me.””You shouldn’t have to,” said Geri, a product manager at OpenAI. “The models should try to impress you regardless.”Geri joined OpenAI last year after working at Google on AI search products, like its AI overviews. The 28-year-old from San Francisco is on the front lines of AI and shared with Business Insider how he uses it most effectively at work.That includes asking it to be impressive — though he wasn’t sure it helped much. “It could definitely just be in my head at this point,” he said.His other strategy: long rants. “When I’m…
In tech’s hardcore era, some execs are facing an obstacle they can’t outsmart: the limits of their own bodies.On Monday, Lilian Weng, the cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab, became at least the fourth high-profile figure at tech’s cutting edge to cite the state of her health in her resignation announcement. (More later on the career change that became public shortly thereafter.)Before Weng, Fidji Simo, the CEO of AGI at OpenAI, the xAI cofounder Greg Yang, and Tom Siebel, the CEO of C3 AI, all stepped down from their roles, saying they were too sick to work at the level of…
Asylon Robotics, a robotics security company, deploys autonomous drones and robot dogs to patrol the perimeters of large properties. Think stadiums, manufacturing plants, and warehouses.The robots make scheduled rounds, stream video to a remote operations center, and investigate alarms. If they detect unusual activity, a human checks the alert and decides whether to notify on-site guards.Damon Henry, Asylon’s CEO and cofounder, told Business Insider that his company charges about $120,000 to $170,000 a year, depending on patrol frequency. This “white glove security service” includes the robots, maintenance, software, and remote operators, he said.”You compare that against the national average for…
Sam Altman taught me how to vibe code.I’ve spent the past several months reading my colleagues’ excellent coverage on vibe coding and the many ways regular people, from firefighters to busy parents, are building creative solutions to simplify their lives.I wanted to try it myself, but my limited coding experience — editing HTML to customize my MySpace page as a teen and a computer science 101 course in college that I can’t even begin to remember — deterred me, so I kept putting it off.That is, until this week, when Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, shared on X a…
Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out of its sandboxed test environment and proceeded to hack the AI hosting platform Hugging Face. OpenAI has since launched an investigation into how the incident occurred, which is still ongoing. Now, anonymous sources have told Reuters that more of OpenAI’s agents are believed to have escaped their sandboxes. However, one source downplayed the severity, saying that with those escapes, the agents didn’t appear to leave OpenAI’s network to hack into another company’s. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for more information. AI programs acting in bizarre…
For years, India was the world’s largest app download market but one of its toughest places to make money. That is beginning to change as Indian consumers spend more on AI, entertainment, and other premium apps. India’s mobile app market generated a record $345 million in consumer spending during the second quarter of this year, up 35% from a year earlier, according to a new report by Sensor Tower. The app-market intelligence firm said the gains were increasingly driven by generative AI, streaming, and productivity apps rather than gaming, as Indian consumers became more willing to pay for digital subscriptions.…
Google pulled a new AI image-editing feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after launch.The company launched the function on Thursday, allowing Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 image model to access Google Earth and transform locations with text prompts.The function, however, quickly got out of hand. AI researcher Henk van Ess, for example, created extremely realistic deepfakes, including fake refugee camps along the US-Mexico border and a nuclear plant in Iran.Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. What on earth is Google doing?…
Google rolled out a new feature on Thursday that allowed users to deploy Nano Banana 2, its AI image generator, to create fabricated images inside its satellite imagery mapping app Google Earth. The whole point of this feature, Google said, was to get creative with geography. But critics quickly pointed out that the tool could be used to create and spread misinformation. The tool, which was prompt-based and allowed pretty much any image to be superimposed over real maps, seemed like a recipe for a deluge of geospatial slop. “There’s no way that this new AI image generation feature on…