Neuralink rival Synchron is using OpenAI models to power chat feature

Neuralink rival Synchron is using OpenAI models to power chat feature

Mark using Synchron’s BCI  Courtesy: Synchron A 64-year-old named Mark has spent the last year learning how to control devices like his laptop and phone using a brain implant. And thanks to OpenAI, it’s gotten a whole lot easier to do.  The neurotech startup Synchron said Thursday it’s using OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence models to … Read more

A Tiny Texas Village Is About To Annex a Gigantic Bitcoin Mine

A Tiny Texas Village Is About To Annex a Gigantic Bitcoin Mine

In Oak Valley, a sleepy village in rural Navarro County, Texas, there is very little of anything. A potholed road runs through its two square miles of sun-beaten grassland, past a modest prefab community center and a “poor excuse for a park,” as the local mayor describes it. Only around 400 people live in Oak … Read more

a $43 million Veterans Affairs simulation hospital

a  million Veterans Affairs simulation hospital

An operating room at SimVET Courtesy: SimVET Inside a sprawling $43 million Veterans Affairs facility equipped with operating rooms, intensive care units and an outpatient clinic, there are no patients. At least not any real ones.  The 53,000-square-foot building sits minutes away from the Orlando International Airport in Florida, and it’s called the National Center … Read more

Snowflake shares slip after AT&T says hackers accessed data

Snowflake shares slip after AT&T says hackers accessed data

Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake and formerly co-founder and CEO of startup Neeva, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 21, 2022. Eóin Noonan | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images Snowflake has spent the past seven weeks dealing with the fallout of a major cyberattack that compromised sensitive customer data at a … Read more

Musk says next Neuralink brain implant expected in ‘next week or so’

Musk says next Neuralink brain implant expected in ‘next week or so’

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk said Wednesday that his brain tech startup Neuralink hopes to implant its system in a second human patient within “the next week or so.” Executives also said the company is making changes to try and reduce the hardware problems it encountered with its first participant. Neuralink … Read more

HubSpot shares plunge 11% on report that Alphabet is shelving interest

HubSpot shares plunge 11% on report that Alphabet is shelving interest

HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan speaks at the company’s Inbound conference in Boston on Sept. 6, 2023. Chance Yeh | HubSpot | Getty Images HubSpot shares plunged 11% on Wednesday after a report said Alphabet isn’t going forward with plans to buy the software company. According to Bloomberg, Alphabet was in talks with HubSpot earlier this … Read more

Company to cut 10% of workforce

Company to cut 10% of workforce

Daniel Dines, Co-founder & CEO at UiPath addresses the audience during the third day of the Web Summit 2021 at Parque das Nacoes in Lisbon.  Bruno de Carvalho | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images UiPath, a developer of automation software, is cutting 10% of its workforce, or about 420 jobs, as part of … Read more

San Francisco’s real estate slide continues as office vacancies peak

San Francisco’s real estate slide continues as office vacancies peak

Artificial intelligence has been a big boon for San Francisco real estate. But not enough of one to make up for the broader struggle across the market. The vacancy rate for San Francisco office space reached a fresh record of 34.5% in the second quarter, according to a report Monday from commercial real estate firm … Read more

App compatibility, battery life shine

App compatibility, battery life shine

With Microsoft’s new Surface Pro Flex Keyboard, you can type and use the trackpad without the accessory being physically connected to the 11th edition of the Surface Pro. Jordan Novet | CNBC When Microsoft announced its new line of Windows PCs in May, the company said the computers were “designed for AI” with new chips … Read more

Microsoft to settle case on protected leave for California employees

Microsoft to settle case on protected leave for California employees

A logo sits illuminated at the Microsoft booth in the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona on Feb. 26, 2024. Xavi Torrent | Getty Images News | Getty Images Microsoft is paying $14.4 million to settle a case in California over allegations that the company retaliated against employees who had taken legally protected time off. … Read more