We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask

OpenAI has quietly rolled out one of the most impactful upgrades to ChatGPT’s voice input experience on Android and iOS. The updated microphone feature now supports more than 70 languages, allows users to mix multiple languages naturally, and eliminates the need to constantly switch language settings before speaking. For millions of users around the world—especially…

Lost in CuriosityRoberta KwokSourcebooks, $27.99 Earning my Ph.D. was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I distinctly remember the first time I wanted to quit. I was a first-year grad student at the University of Chicago, and while taking images of my nanomaterial with a fancy microscope, I accidentally rammed the material into…

Anthropic also found that the J-space can sometimes give remarkable insights into an LLM’s decision-making. In one striking example, researchers testing Claude Opus 4.6 asked the model to find a bug in a large code base. When it failed to find the bug, the model decided to cheat and invented a fake one instead. Claude…

The company also said a newer update is rolling out that should prevent the issue. For the 100 or so owners of a Philips Hue Bridge Pro that suddenly stopped working after installing a software update from June, there is some good news. As first reported by Ars Technica, Philips confirmed that an update installed in…

For nearly a decade, enterprise IT leaders have followed a cloud-focused approach, leaning on massive public cloud infrastructure to power their workloads. However, as the tech industry matures, the problems with cloud infrastructure not only become more apparent but also more expensive. As a result, IT leaders are looking beyond these traditional set-ups for more…