OpenAI launched a new AI agent called Dots on Tuesday, featuring a colorful blob-like avatar. Social media users quickly noticed that the domain 'dot.com' is owned by Elon Musk's xAI and redirects visitors to the download page for its Grok chatbot app, with Whois records showing the domain was transferred in July. OpenAI has not commented, and xAI has not responded to requests for clarification on why it acquired the domain.
CNBC's Jim Cramer said on 'Mad Money' that public sentiment has shifted against AI companies and their products, arguing that industry proponents have been slow to respond. He cited rising concerns over electricity costs, water use and job displacement, alongside a leaked Anthropic IPO document warning of 'catastrophic or existential risk' and OpenAI's delay of its next model over safety concerns.
Michael Burry, the investor known for foreseeing the 2008 housing market collapse, has said he expects an AI-driven bubble in stocks to burst 'sooner rather than later.' He anticipates a market downturn tied to AI-related equities as early as next year.
A peer-reviewed study by Northeastern University researchers, conducted with Consumer Reports, tested 21 vehicles from 17 automakers and 30 companion apps. It found 19 of the 21 vehicles sent data to at least one third party, and seven apps shared sensitive information such as VINs, emails, phone numbers and precise location with companies tied to advertising and tracking, including Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Snap and Yahoo.
UnoDOS is a graphical operating system family built from one shared source tree, originally a 16-bit real-mode GUI OS written in x86 assembly that fit a kernel, window manager, two filesystems and applications onto a single floppy disk. It has since been ported to home computers, consoles, handhelds, single-board computers and a phone, with its flagship version, pc64, running bare-metal on modern 64-bit PCs with its own drivers, network stack, browser, office suite, compiler and hypervisor. Prebuilt images and a verification ledger (PLATFORMS.md) documenting real-hardware versus emulator-only support are published on the project's releases page.
Some parents are turning to AI image generators like ChatGPT to create fake school portraits of their children rather than pay traditional school photography fees. TikTok users are sharing the resulting images, describing the practice as a money-saving hack for the new school year.
Microsoft has released WSL Containers to general availability, letting Windows 11 developers build, run and deploy Linux containers natively through Windows Subsystem for Linux. The update adds a wslc.exe management tool, GPU support, networking improvements, health checks, storage mounts, and integration with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intune. Microsoft says file access from Linux environments to Windows storage can now run up to twice as fast, though Compose support is still missing and listed as a priority.
Translation earbuds, such as Apple's AirPods Pro paired with the Translate app, let users hear real-time spoken translations by connecting to a phone, selecting languages and activating a live translation mode. Some designs require sharing an earbud with the other speaker instead. Behind this simple interface, the devices run three technical stages: speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech synthesis.
Apple TV has renewed its French-language period drama 'Carême,' starring Benjamin Voisin, for a second season, with production set to begin next week in Paris. The first season, based on Ian Kelly's book about chef Antonin Carême, debuted last April and is currently up for an International Emmy and two Hollywood Music in Media Awards. No release date for season two has been set.
Members of Berkeley's Odd Friend Studio placed a 5-foot papier mâché and cardboard installation called 'What Iceberg?' at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco. The piece depicts OpenAI's leaders and investors escaping a sinking ship while others are left behind, and took five days to build from repurposed materials including an old table.
EliseAI, an AI startup automating administrative work for housing and healthcare companies, raised $350 million in a round that doubled its valuation to $4 billion from its Series E last August. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Ventures. The company says its software is used in one of every six US apartments and recently surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue.
Developer Armin Ronacher has published a project called Deser, aiming to address longstanding limitations in Rust's dominant Serde serialization library. He details specific bugs and edge cases in Serde, including failures when combining internally tagged enums with arbitrary-precision numbers, broken integer key handling under field flattening, and deserializer adapters that don't compose properly.
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