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Derek Kan served as the deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget in 2020 and undersecretary of transportation from 2017-19.

Musk and Zuckerberg claw back into AI race with new model momentum

The tech giants are putting new pressure on a hierarchy dominated by OpenAI and Anthropic.

Can Roxen’s ‘electric watercraft’ challenge the Jet Ski?

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections

We’re introducing ChatGPT for Teens, an experience designed to help teens learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence. It provides stronger built-in safety protections for teens, including features to promote healthy use and additional controls for parents. If our system estimates someone is under 18 or they state their age is between 13 and 17, they are automatically placed into ChatGPT for Teens.

Liability for AI companies could help rein in unsafe AI

Who pays when your AI agent hacks the gym?

Starting a company together can feel like a marriage. These founders planned for the divorce.

Build a calm, realistic plan to recover from job loss and move toward your next role.

'If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.'

According to Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton, that’s the “honest answer” as to why the streaming platform has started training Amazon’s generative AI models on users’ content by default. Twitch users can choose to opt out, but Minton defends the default setting because “almost every content service in the world” is also doing it.

A New "Digital Organism" Could Speed Up AI Biology

Scientists created a kind of flight simulator for medicine to run 'what if?' experiments on biology.

An industrywide power crunch is changing how Amazon runs its e-commerce empire

Amazon is spreading e-commerce workloads across more AWS regions as power and capacity constraints reshape cloud computing in the AI era.

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.

YouTube’s AI chatbot search comes to mobile.

The “Ask YouTube” conversational search experience that YouTube started testing in April is now rolling out to the mobile app. It’s available for signed-in users in the US who are 13 or older, and can be found by tapping the “Ask” option in the YouTube search bar.

TSMC and Sony team up, China’s AI stocks swing

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times