April 17, 2026
Tech
Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
At a trendy venue near the San Francisco pier, Sam Altman’s verification project World celebrated its next evolution and rapid…
April 17, 2026
Tech
I asked Gemini to write my Home Assistant automations, and it actually worked well
Home Assistant is one of the most powerful pieces of equipment out there for anyone who has smart-home electronics. It’s…
April 17, 2026
Tech
OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving
I am immensely grateful to Sam, Mark, Aditya and Jakub for fostering a research environment that allowed us to pursue…
April 17, 2026
Tech
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’
OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the company’s science research…
April 17, 2026
Tech
Man who hacked US Supreme Court filing system sentenced to probation
Nicholas Moore, who pleaded guilty to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic document filing system dozens of times over several…
April 17, 2026
Tech
OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s former chief product officer who was recently tapped to build a new AI workspace for scientists, Prism,…
April 17, 2026
Tech
Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
AI coding startup Cursor is nearing new funding in which the four-year-old company would raise at least $2 billion in…
April 17, 2026
Tech
“Tokenmaxxing” is making developers less productive than they think
There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring. Software…
April 17, 2026
Tech
Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder
Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the…
April 17, 2026
Tech
Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations
Hackers have broken into at least one organization using Windows vulnerabilities published online by a disgruntled security researcher over the…