Drake Postpones Manchester Show Due to ‘Travel Logistics’
An “unseen ferry schedule” has gotten in the way of Monday night’s Drake concert in Manchester, England. The July 28 gig at Co-op Live, which was meant to be the…
Samsung to Produce Tesla Chips in $16.5 Billion Multiyear Deal
Samsung Electronics Co. will produce semiconductors for Tesla Inc. in a new $16.5 billion pact that gives a boost for its underperforming foundry division.
Alibaba Cloud Visionary Expects Big Shakeup After OpenAI Hype
OpenAI’s ChatGPT started a revolution in artificial intelligence development and investment. Yet nine-tenths of the technology and services that’ve sprung up since could be gone in under a decade, according…
Tom Lehrer, Song Satirist and Mathematician, Dies at 97
Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard…
Landing a $35 Billion Tech Deal in the Middle of Trade Turbulence
Synopsys CFO Shelagh Glaser recounts some last-minute drama around the deal for Ansys. Plus, a one-on-one with the finance chief of Colombia’s biggest lender.
Tom Lehrer, Harvard’s Satiric, Melodic Mathematician, Dies at 97
Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s,…
Scientists Teach AI to Think About the Roman Empire
Historians don't know when the Ancient Roman text "Res Gestae Divi Augusti," a chronicle of Emperor Augustus's deeds, was first written, since these kind of epigraphs tend to not contain any…
Vinny Appice Refutes Rumors of Beef Between Dio and Ozzy
Despite decades-long speculation, Appice says there was no hatred between the two iconic singers. Continue reading…
Netflix Says It Used Video-Generating AI for Special Effects in a New Show
Streaming slop, meet AI slop. Netflix is bragging that, for the first time, it's used generative AI in one of its original, scripted TV shows, Ars Technica reports, signaling its…
Sam Altman Warns That AI Is About to Cause a Massive “Fraud Crisis” in Which Anyone Can Perfectly Imitate Anyone Else
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning of an "impending fraud crisis" in which practically anybody will be able to imitate not only the voice but even the likeness of others, using…