Message Screenshots Are Terrible Evidence—Courts Accept Them Anyway

A digital forensics expert on why screenshots of text messages prove almost nothing, what carrier records and backups miss and when only the smartphone can answer.

Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best
Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best

“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by the former OpenAI chief technology officer, has…

5 Reasons Metadata Can’t Prove Your Photo—Or Any File—Is Real

Metadata was never proof. It is an envelope written in pencil, and every new app and upload pipeline hands someone else an eraser.

Bliq.ai gets the green light for driverless cars in Finland
Bliq.ai gets the green light for driverless cars in Finland

Bliq.ai has won approval to run driverless cars in Finland, its second EU market after Estonia. First stop is a Helsinki winter. Europe has another driverless car heading for its roads. Finland has cleared Bliq.ai to operate its Bliq Driverless vehicle…

AI Isn’t Smarter Than a Baby—Yet

Babies are tremendous learning machines, and key advances for AI may soon be found in the architecture of their little brains.

Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York
Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York

Neko Health, the body-scanning startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, has raised $700m and is now worth about $7bn. It is heading to New York, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Maria Sharapova, and will.i.am. “We’ve gone into markets where health care is free, and…

Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model

Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open source model, was trained to understand video and audio. It could help Thinking Machines establish itself among competitors like Anthropic and OpenAI.

Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland
Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland

Amazon Leo will launch satellite internet in South Africa in 2027, seemingly beating Elon Musk’s Starlink in his home country. Musk has refused the Black-ownership rules Amazon appears willing to meet. Jeff Bezos is about to beat Elon Musk in Musk’s ow…

How can businesses simplify invoicing and payment processing?

This post is brought to you in paid partnership with QuickBooks. Creating an invoice is rarely the hardest part of getting paid. For most small businesses, it takes only a few minutes to prepare an estimate, send an invoice, or request payment. The wor…

Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995
Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995

Nvidia and Sega go back 30 years. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to thank the games maker for a $5m investment that saved his company from bankruptcy in 1995. “If not for what Sega did for Nvidia, Nvidia would not be here today.” That is Jensen Huang, chie…