Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the city’s medical examiner ruled his death a suicide, countering suspicions by his family that had fueled widespread speculation online. Balaji made headlines in October when he accused OpenAI of illegally using copyrighted material to train … Read more
How long is the Galaxy S25 battery life? Best answer: According to Samsung, the Galaxy S25 lets you watch videos for up to 29 hours, 30 hours on the Galaxy S25 Plus, or 31 hours on the Ultra. with the battery fully charged. While this claim is a tad vague, our testing confirms that the … Read more
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Amazon is expected to unveil its new and improved AI-powered Alexa later this month, but it may not reach the public immediately after the event. Internal sources reveal that Amazon seems to have pushed the public release back by a month due to technical hurdles. The new Alexa is … Read more
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s long-promised overhaul for Siri “is facing engineering problems and software bugs, threatening to postpone or limit its release, according to people with knowledge of the matter….” Last June, Apple touted three major enhancements coming to Siri: – the ability to tap into a customer’s data to better answer queries and take … Read more
A few days ago, we reported that Apple’s refurbished Mac mini pricing had a problem, and it appears that Apple has taken note. Apple was offering a refurbished Mac mini with the M2 chip, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage for $559, which was $50 more than a refurbished Mac mini with the M4 … Read more
Google Pixel phones come with an emergency SOS feature that calls for emergency response services, and also shares the alert with friends or family members. The whole system also has an optional video feature that records your surroundings and shares the clip with all your emergency contacts. If you have enabled this feature — hopefully … Read more
Summary I rarely replay games, but Diablo II keeps me coming back for its engaging gameplay and atmosphere. The sequel evolved from the original: Diablo II improved on Diablo’s mechanics and played with more expansiveness. Diablo II has infinite replayability due to procedural generation and variable challenges, making every run unique. I rarely play a … Read more
It says something about your career at a company that makes hundreds of trillions of transistors every day when your nickname is “Mr. Transistor.” That’s what colleagues sometimes call Tahir Ghani, a senior fellow and director of process pathfinding in Intel’s technology development group. Ghani’s career spans three decades at the company and has resulted … Read more
Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter Sylvia Zhang Prof Mingmin Zhao (right) has been working on a radio vision system for robots If you want to find out whether your robot can see through smoke, well, you’re going to need some smoke. But a University of Pennsylvania student got a shock when they began setting up a … Read more
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today, virtually every cutting-edge AI product and model uses a transformer architecture. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o, LLaMA, Gemini and Claude are all transformer-based, and other AI applications such as text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, image … Read more