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OpenAI boss Sam Altman is a self-admitted doomsday prepper who once bragged about his stash of guns, gold and other survival goods — long before he and other experts warned AI posed a “risk of extinction” to humanity on par with nuclear weapons and pandemics. In 2016, a profile of Altman in the New Yorker recounted a conversation in which …

Apple on Monday unveiled its long-anticipated mixed-reality headset — with a whopping $3,499 price tag — marking the iPhone maker’s first major product launch in a decade. Dubbed the “Vision Pro,” Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the device as the centerpiece of the tech giant’s annual Worldwide Developers conference event at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. “Vision Pro is a …

Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, which was valued at close to $2 billion in a private fundraising round two years ago, is now worth around $5 billion based on privately executed stock trades described to Reuters by five sources with knowledge of the matter. Some purchases by bullish investors boosted the valuation in recent months, ahead of Neuralink’s May 25 announcement that …

Better think twice before using ChatGPT to do your homework for you. A student named Arjun was allegedly busted for using the artificial-intelligence technology on his schoolwork. Walnut CEO Roshan Patel posted about the incident on Twitter June 1, along with a photo of the assignment. “My little cousin Arjun got caught using ChatGPT on his 7th grade English homework,” …

Linda Yaccarino took the reins as Twitter’s new CEO earlier than expected on Monday — and hired a former colleague at NBCUniversal as she scrambles to prop up ad revenue that has reportedly plunged 59% this year. Yaccarino took the reins from billionaire Elon Musk as Twitter’s boss about three weeks earlier than expected, and is already building out her …

Eren Kartal seems too good to be true — the blue-eyed heartthrob is ambitious, manicured, loyal, and best of all, he doesn’t come with “baggage.” But here’s the catch: Kartal doesn’t exist. In fact, he’s a virtual boyfriend created with the AI chatbot software Replika. Those willing to drop $300 could have their own build-a-beau, just like Rosanna Ramos, Kartal’s “wife.” …

This robot dog isn’t into the ruff stuff. Bunny, an 85-pound purebred from Boston Dynamics, hit midtown Manhattan on a visit with her owner Agnieszka Pilat this week — and she came in peace. “I signed a pledge with some other robotics companies that you cannot use them for offensive, only defensive. So, for example, mounting a gun on the …

A European spacecraft’s historic first-of-its-kind livestream from the red planet was constantly interrupted by rain — from Earth. The European Space Agency broadcast the livestream of stunning views of Earth’s next-door neighbor from the Mars Express to commemorate the spacecraft’s 20th anniversary. It was launched by a Russian rocket in Kazakhstan in 2003. It took about 17 minutes for each …

Nearly 4,000 Americans lost their jobs in May because they were replaced by artificial intelligence — the first time that AI has been blamed for workers being unemployed, according to a report. More than 80,000 jobs were cut in May, according to the analytics firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, which cited market and economic conditions as well as mergers and …

Twitter’s head of brand safety and ad quality, A.J. Brown, has decided to leave the company, according to a source familiar with the matter on Friday, the second safety leader to depart in a matter of days. The latest departure adds to a growing challenge for new Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, even before she steps into the role. On Thursday, …