AI & Robotics

Outsiders had little reason to notice when Nvidia’s longtime chief security officer and head of product security stepped down in August. Just two and a half months later, CEO Jensen Huang himself left the company over growing questions about his extramarital relationships – starting with an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore data center company that U.S. investigators suspect of…

ChatGPT can now shop for you. On Friday, OpenAI launched a new wallet feature that lets its agents, called dots, help you decide what to buy and then complete the purchase on your behalf. The option will initially be available to a limited number of U.S. ChatGPT Pro subscribers, ages 18 and up, with a U.S.-issued Visa, Mastercard, or American Express. OpenAI says that users are fully in control of…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s confession that he had an affair (and reports of another one with a direct report) that led the board to oust him on Thursday isn’t just your run-of-the-mill salacious billionaire CEO sex scandal. In this case, one of his lovers is suspected by the U.S. government of being a spy for China. She’s also an executive of a Singapore-based neocloud that is…

Databricks on Wednesday unveiled an updated version of its AI agent Genie, which can now perform multistep jobs that take extended work to finish. It does this through an ontology that Databricks built to give Genie the context it needs from the information that customers store on the Databricks platform. Corporate leaders can now assign the agent a wide range of tasks, and it will complete them…