It’s the sort of question that Turkle, a psychologist and sociologist at MIT whose latest book is “Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines,” has been fielding for decades….
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NVIDIA Upsizes Share Buyback Program to $235B amid AI Safety Tool Release
NVIDIA’s board approved a $150 billion increase to its share repurchase program, bringing the total authorization to $235 billion. The company also introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform to govern AI agents…
I Used Instinct’s AI Agent to Plan Travel. It Felt Dull and Slipped up.
Ask around: AI agents are the Next Big Thing. You can give them tasks via iMessage or WhatsApp, and they can search the internet or use software to complete them. It’s a…
Malicious browser extensions can hijack Gemini, Edge and Comet AI
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! AI assistants are moving deeper into the browsers we use every day. They can summarize a webpage, explain what you are looking at and,…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: AI distillation is competition
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said AI model distillation — models being trained on other models’ outputs — is “competition,” despite the White House calling it theft. Distillation has become a key…
Nvidia launches new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue
Chipmaker Nvidia said Monday it is introducing a new software platform to address concerns about artificial intelligence agents that have “gone rogue” and operated outside human control. “Today, with over 100 industry…
Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation
It’s only been a month since AI assistant startup Instinct announced a fundraise that valued it at $2.5 billion, and now the company has already raised another $1 billion, from investors including…
Andreessen Horowitz backs AI-era college alternative with $42M
Yardeni Research President Ed Yardeni joins the panel to discuss how higher yields weigh on stocks. He analyzes Magnificent 7 performance against the S&P 500 and explains the outlook for technology and…
Humanoid Robots Are Getting Even Creepier (This One Can Cry On Command)
As robots learn to fake feelings, the line between comfort and creepy keeps shrinking. Screenshot on YouTube/Otofootage Humanoid robots have come a long way from clunky and monotone machines. Today’s…
5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Monday. The nor’easter derailed my plans for an outdoor run over the weekend. Instead, I took a “Heated…