We can shape technologies that not only entertain but also nurture empathy, emotional regulation, and deeper connection in the next generation. Empathy is not just a “nice-to-have” soft skill—it is a foundation of how children and adults regulate emotions, build friendships, and learn from one another.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday announced the launch of AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, at the firm’s Dev Day event. “AgentKit is a complete set of building blocks available in the open AI platform designed to help you take agents from prototype to production. It is everything you need to build, deploy, and optimize…
The tech industry has championed the development of new technologies that filter carbon dioxide out of the air as a way to try to undo the damage caused by planet-heating emissions. Over the past several years, they’ve made a slew of splashy announcements to fund these kinds of projects, called direct air capture (DAC). That…
Presented by DXC Technology The sheer volume and sophistication of incoming threats today has dwarfed attacks from just six months ago, let alone two years ago, because adversaries have leveled up with AI. Naturally, security operations and analysts are under pressure, facing mounting alert volumes and false positives, while organizations scramble to support them amidst…
Democrats are holding firm on renewing health care subsidies for millions of Americans. Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations taking place to end what is about to be a six-day shutdown — with President Donald Trump saying that layoffs are occurring.Asked…
Firefly Aerospace on Sunday said it had agreed to buy defense analytics firm SciTec for about $855 million in cash and stock, paving the path to its goal of becoming a significant player in the national security market. Firefly will pay around $300 million in cash and $555 million in new shares, and the deal…
AMD is partnering with OpenAI to provide six gigawatts worth of processors for AI data centers, a move that challenges Nvidia’s AI chip market dominance. The five-year agreement aims to help OpenAI bolster its infrastructure to meet growing computational demands for AI applications like ChatGPT, starting with a gigawatt deployment of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs…
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) fine-tuning both powerful and accessible. Now in private beta, Tinker gives developers and researchers direct control over their training pipelines while offloading the heavy…
Synchrony’s CEO, Brian Doubles, shares with Stephanie Mehta how a mindset of “productive paranoia” fosters a workplace where curiosity, collaboration, and creativity drives real change. Synchrony’s CEO, Brian Doubles, shares with Stephanie Mehta how a mindset of “productive paranoia” fosters a workplace where curiosity, collaboration, and creativity drives real change.
Dr. Tom Kelly is a trauma surgeon, and everywhere, he sees doctors drowning in administrative work. He wanted change, so he set out to build it. “We wanted to build an AI care partner that would stand alongside clinicians and take care of the admin so that individual providers, like me, can feel empowered to…
