“The quantum moment reminds me of where AI was in the 2010s, when we were working on Google Brain and the early progress,” Pichai, who is also CEO of Google parent Alphabet Inc., said at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Wednesday.
AI then becomes a tool for replacing politics. The Trump administration frames generative AI as a remedy to "government waste." However, what it seeks to automate is not paperwork but democratic decision-making. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are banking on a popular but false delusion that word prediction technologies make meaningful inferences about the world. They are using it to sidestep Congressional oversight of the budget, which is, Constitutionally, the allotment of resources to government programs through representative politics.
Following the “Prism Shift” puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2025 is taking place Tuesday, May 20 to Wednesday, May 21.
Officially, “you’ll learn more about Google’s newest products, technologies and innovations in AI.”
I/O 2025 will kick off with a main keynote hosted by CEO Sundar Pichai at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California at 10 a.m. PT. This will be followed by a developer keynote and on-demand technical sessions. New this year is how Google will be “streaming developer product keynotes live from Shoreline across both days.”
In 2020, the media and technology conglomerate filed an unprecedented AI copyright lawsuit against the legal AI startup Ross Intelligence. In the complaint, Thomson Reuters claimed the AI firm reproduced materials from its legal research firm Westlaw. Today, a judge ruled in Thomson Reuters’ favor, finding that the company’s copyright was indeed infringed by Ross Intelligence’s actions.
with the AI craze, companies aren’t investing in junior developers. Why train people when you can have a model spit out boilerplate? Why mentor young engineers when AI promises to handle everything?
Spoiler alert: this is a terrible idea.
The next generation of programmers will grow up expecting AI to do the hard parts for them. They won’t know why an algorithm is slow, they won’t be able to debug cryptic race conditions (provided they are familiar with the concept), and they certainly won’t know how to build resilient systems that survive real-world chaos. It’s like teaching kids to drive but only letting them use Teslas on autopilot — one day, the software will fail, and they’ll have no idea how to handle it.
The result? We’ll have a whole wave of programmers who are more like AI operators than real engineers. And when companies realize AI isn't magic, being just a bunch of tokenized words in line (prove me wrong on that), they'll scramble to find actual programmers who know what they're doing. Too bad they spent years not hiring them.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft and access device fraud. He faces a maximum possible sentence of five years in prison when he is sentenced on May 16.
Council as part of his guilty plea agreed to forfeit to the government the $50,000 he received for his role in the hacking scheme.
Council, who used the online handles “Ronin,” “Easymunny” and “AGiantSchnauzer,” allegedly was paid in bitcoin by his unidentified co-conspirators.
Kuo Jyh-huei, Taiwan’s economy minister, suggested on Saturday that the delegation led by his deputy Kiang would “try to explain things more thoroughly to our US friends”.
This includes the fact that TSMC customers that specialise in designing chips gain a much larger profit share than the manufacturer does — and operate without the risks that stem from its enormous capital investments in fabrication plants, said Kuo.
Technology industry experts said the notion that Washington could use tariffs to coerce TSMC into moving most of its operations to the US was illusory and based on ignorance about the chip industry.
Together, Krapivin (now a graduate student at the University of Cambridge), Farach-Colton (now at New York University) and Kuszmaul demonstrated in a January 2025 paper(opens a new tab) that this new hash table can indeed find elements faster than was considered possible. ln so doing, they had disproved a conjecture long held to be true.
“It’s an important paper,” said Alex Conway(opens a new tab) of Cornell Tech in New York City. “Hash tables are among the oldest data structures we have. And they’re still one of the most efficient ways to store data.” Yet open questions remain about how they work, he said. “This paper answers a couple of them in surprising ways.”
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Congress must immediately enact a law prohibiting American tech companies from providing encryption backdoors to any country. This would create a “conflict of laws” situation, allowing Apple to fight this order in U.K. courts and protect Americans’ safety and security.
According to Neal Mohan, YouTube’s CEO, TV screens have officially overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S.” In other words, more people are watching YouTube on TV sets than any other device, at least here in the U.S.
It is, as Mohan writes in his annual letter from the CEO, an indication that “YouTube is the new television.”
Google Maps now shows the “Gulf of America” in place of the “Gulf of Mexico” for users on both web and mobile in the United States. It made the change after the Trump administration formally changed the name today of the body of water spanning between the eastern coast of Mexico and the Florida panhandle. Google says it follows the GNIS, or Geographic Names Information System, a US database of location information.
Some Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like Pride month are no longer highlighted by default. Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage have also been removed, according to a Google product expert.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance told Europeans on Tuesday their "massive" regulations on artificial intelligence could strangle the technology, and rejected content moderation as "authoritarian censorship". In another sign of divergence on AI governance, the United States and Britain did not sign up to the final statement of a French-hosted AI summit that said AI should be inclusive, open, ethical and safe.
Apple's Beats brand is officially introducing the Powerbeats Pro 2 today, bringing significant updates to the wireless earphones aimed at active users. Among the upgrades for Powerbeats Pro 2 are Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) with Transparency mode, Personalized Spatial Audio, an H2 chip for improved power efficiency and Apple ecosystem integration, and for the first time in an Apple audio product, Heart Rate Monitoring.
It's a clever move that throws a major wrench into the for-profit transition, potentially even stopping it dead in its tracks. Whether OpenAI accepts the offer or not (they won't), the mere existence of this valuation benchmark will be hard for regulators to ignore.
tl;dr We’ve cracked the code to match the fidelity of Apple Immersive video and just launched today: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prima-immersive/id6740540865
Starting in July, the perk will cost $15 a month for T-Mobile users on most plans or $10 for people who participated in the trial. It will be included at no extra charge for users on the company’s priciest Go5G Next plan, according to Mike Katz, T-Mobile president of marketing, strategy and products. Verizon and AT&T customers will be charged $20 a month.
Individual subscribers can now access all these features with the Google One AI Premium tier, which costs $20 a month. Additionally, Google has introduced a 50% discount for students above 18 years in the U.S. — offering the One AI Premium at a monthly charge of $9.99.
“This is moving so fast, by the time you write this article, there could be something different.”
