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On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the sheer breadth of the reports is alarming, as they cover many types of rogue behavior over a long period of time. So far, the site hosts nine reported incidents, most of which took place during reinforcement-learning (or RL) training.

In the age of AI, it should come as no surprise that Amazon’s shopping tools can notify you when an item’s price drops and, for eligible Prime members, automatically buy it when it reaches a pre-selected price. To kick off your automated shopping spree, start with Amazon’s built-in Price History feature, a small blue button next…

An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate. They expect it to work reliably. And they quickly find out whether it solves a big enough problem to become part of how they work — or becomes another AI experiment they…

Sony’s press conferences have been a staple of the Consumer Electronics Show for decades, but there won’t be one at the 2027 edition. The company said neither it nor its affiliates plan to show off any products at January’s event.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly told its agents and support staff that their personal information was stolen in a recent cyberattack that targeted the bureau’s job application portal.

Boston-based voice intelligence startup Modulate has raised $25 in new funding for its platform that uses an array of small models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and policy enforcement for voice agents in regulated industries.

It’s only been a month since AI assistant startup Instinct announced a fundraise that valued it at $2.5 billion, and now the company has already raised another $1 billion, from investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue, valuing the company at $10 billion.

Arlington, Virginia-based startup Quartermaster in May closed a $43 million Series A around its idea of using weather-hardened sensors to capture data and generate insights about maritime activity. That idea has proven popular, because Quartermaster has already closed a much larger Series B, bringing in $140 million this time.

If you need to charge your phone repeatedly while away from an outlet, a big power bank could be a good investment.

Even as someone who’s deeply invested in modular, repairable technology, it’s rare to hear about a repairable “smart” watch. Google’s Pixel Watch 4 is setting a bar, but it’s still the exception rather than the rule, especially across the industry. Gear that small and that tightly packaged is hard to make sustainable, to the point…