Hertz says customers’ personal data and driver’s licenses stolen in data breach
The car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.
Roundtables: Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to Product
Recorded on April 23, 2025 Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to Product Speakers: David Rotman, editor at large, and Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been crowned the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2025 by MIT Technology Review‘s readers. BCIs are electrodes implanted into the brain to send neural commands to computers, primarily to assist…
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Strategic Planning Doesn’t Have to Be Complex — This Simple, 3-Part Framework Delivers Faster Results
This article outlines a practical, low-cost framework for entrepreneurs to build and execute strategy fast — focusing on clarity, focus and action.
People Will Soon Search the Internet with Images, Not Text — Here’s Why It Matters for Your Business
Visual search is reshaping SEO, and businesses must optimize images and metadata to stay visible.
OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding
OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1 . Yes, “4.1” — as if the company’s nomenclature wasn’t confusing enough already. There’s GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, all of which OpenAI says “excel” at coding and instruction following. Available through OpenAI’s API but not ChatGPT, the multimodal models have a 1-million-token […]
OpenAI plans to phase out GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, from its API
OpenAI said on Monday that it would soon wind down the availability of GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, via its API. GPT-4.5 was released only in late February. Developers will have access to GPT-4.5 via OpenAI’s API until July 14, after which they’ll have to transition to another model in OpenAI’s catalog, the company says. […]
Google’s newest AI model is designed to help study dolphin ‘speech’
Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, says that it has created an AI model that can help decipher dolphin vocalizations, supporting research efforts to better understand how dolphins communicate. The model, called DolphinGemma, was trained using data from the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP), a nonprofit that studies Atlantic spotted dolphins and their behaviors. Built on […]
Google Classroom gives teachers an AI feature for quiz questions
Google Classroom introduced a new AI-powered feature designed to help teachers generate questions. Launched on Monday, this tool lets educators create a list of questions based on specific text input. Using this text-dependent question generation tool, which utilizes Gemini, teachers can either upload files from Google Drive or manually enter text for the AI to […]
The Shopping Strategy I Used to Pay Off $22,000 Debt and Save $36,000 Might Sound Extreme — But It Worked. Here’s How.
Ashlee Piper, a former political strategist, set an ambitious goal to challenge herself.
‘I’m So Alone’: Hackers Create AI-Voices Mimicking Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg at Crosswalks in Silicon Valley. Here’s What They Say.
Social media users posted videos of strange messages supposedly spoken by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg when crosswalk buttons were pressed in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City.
Blue Origin’s all-female crew, including Katy Perry, successfully launched
Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, successfully launched its New Shepard rocket at around 9:30 a.m. ET on Monday, as it seeks to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the space tourism industry. What stands out most about this mission is that it featured the first all-female space crew since 1963, when Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova […]