As Jonathan Roll neared completion of a master’s degree in science and technology policy at Arizona State University three years ago, he did some research into recent developments by China’s ascendant space program. He came away impressed by the country’s growing ambitions. Now a full-time research analyst at the university, Roll was recently asked to

Google has so many products that it can be near-impossible to keep track. And yet, the company has rarely created desktop apps to go with those services. There are a handful, like Drive and Quick Share, but the company’s flagship product is only now coming to the desktop. The new Google app for Windows is

Verizon agreed to offer $20-per-month broadband service to people with low incomes in California in exchange for a merger approval. In a bid to complete its $9.6 billion purchase of Frontier Communications, Verizon committed to offering $20 fiber-to-the-home service with symmetrical speeds of 300Mbps. Verizon also committed to offering a $20 fixed wireless service with

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to develop an automated age-prediction system that will determine whether ChatGPT users are over or under 18, automatically directing younger users to a restricted version of the AI chatbot. The company also confirmed that parental controls will launch by the end of September. In a companion blog post, OpenAI CEO

Under new rules rolling out over the coming months, a small number of users will be required to leave some of their moderator posts so that they aren’t moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors. Reddit said the change only affects “0.1 percent of our active mods” and will help enable “diverse perspectives

New solution delivers real-time, unlimited eligibility verification and helps practices prepare for CMS’s 2026 mandate. SPRY Therapeutics Inc. today announced the launch of the SPRY Prior Authorization & Eligibility Solution, the first AI-powered solution purpose-built for rehab therapy clinics. The solution automates up to 80% of prior authorization workflows while ensuring all authorizations are completed through a combination

Twixify is an online tool that takes text generated by AI (ChatGPT, Bard, etc.) and rewrites it so it sounds more human-written. Some of the core goals / promises: Mimic your writing style. You can feed it samples of how you write (tone, style, structure) so the output is more aligned with you. Remove or

The creative tech world just got noisier—and dare I say, more exciting. ClipGen, a Wyoming-based startup, has launched an all-in-one AI suite that promises to turn napkin doodles and half-baked scripts into slick, professional-grade videos, images, and audio in a matter of seconds. That’s no small claim in a market where competitors are racing to

OpenAI has hired Mike Liberatore, the former finance chief at Elon Musk’s xAI, to serve as its new business finance officer. His job? Keeping tabs on the company’s ballooning AI infrastructure costs and making sure the compute taps don’t run dry. Liberatore will report directly to CFO Sarah Friar and work alongside Greg Brockman’s team

Short attention spans, big dreams, zero time. That’s the reality of social media right now. The good news: you don’t need filmmaking chops to ship scroll-stopping videos anymore. Modern ai video generator tools can take a few lines of text (or a single image!) and spit out ready-to-post clips—captions, voiceover, avatars, the lot. If you’ve