Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year
Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year

In 2022 Kenya adopted a ten-year national plan to move its graduates into online outsourcing work. OpenAI released ChatGPT the same year. Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur set out what happened next, reporting from Nairobi for the New York Times with Edwin…

‘Secretive’ Agreement Will Divert NIH Funds To Pentagon, Warns DeLauro

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) is now calling out an interagency agreement that could allow potentially billions of NIH funds to be moved to the Department of Defense.

Robert Pattinson’s ‘Primetime’ Rotten Tomatoes Review Score Is In

Robert Pattinson’s Chris Hansen movie Primetime is out soon, but an earily Rotten Tomatoes critic review score is already in.

Nepal’s Flood Was A Warning The World Had Already Received

Nepal’s deadly flood exposes a deeper failure: climate finance pledged to vulnerable nations for years still isn’t arriving fast enough — or at all.

Uber put $100m into the company that hired Anthony Levandowski
Uber put $100m into the company that hired Anthony Levandowski

Uber has put $100m into a company that just hired Anthony Levandowski. His theft of Google’s self-driving secrets cost Uber a fortune, and it helped end Travis Kalanick’s time as chief executive. The company is Atoms, Kalanick’s new venture. Rafe Rosne…

‘Lanterns’ Episode 4 Release Time: Here’s When This Week’s Episode Drops On HBO Max

‘Lanterns’ drops its second episode on Sunday, August 23 on HBO and HBO Max. Here’s everything you need to know.

OpenAI’s AGI number came from a harness, not the model
OpenAI’s AGI number came from a harness, not the model

OpenAI declared the AGI era on the strength of a 99.9% score. Run the same model through the benchmark’s own software, and it scores 62.7%. The gap is not a rounding error or a rival’s complaint. It comes from the organisation that built the test. ARC …

It’s A Short Wait Until ‘The Gentlemen’ Season 3’s Release Date

In the wake of “The Gentlemen” season 2’s finale, we have great news about a short wait for season 3.

Console makers say buyers are owed nothing from their tariff refunds
Console makers say buyers are owed nothing from their tariff refunds

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tariff refunds back to console buyers, saying customers paid advertised prices and got working consoles. European buyers absorbed the same increases but th…

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on its second flight, a first for a European commercial launcher
Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on its second flight, a first for a European commercial launcher

Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed satellites from Andoya in northern Norway on Saturday night, the first commercial European company to do so and on only its second flight. It lands four days before Macron’s Paris space summit…