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OpenAI's Sam Altman Says He's 'Genuinely Embarrassed' By The Company's Previous Exit Paperwork

The company previously threatened to take away an employee's equity if they spoke negatively about OpenAI

By Emily Price

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Is Launching Its First Manned Space Flight In 2 Years Tomorrow

On board will be six customers traveling to space for the first time

By Emily Price

Soon Your Bank Will Have To Tell You About Any Data Breaches Within 30 Days

The SEC adopted new rules this week to help protect consumers

By Emily Price

Apple Is Offering More Cash For iPhone Trade-Ins Next Week

The deal starts May 20th and runs until June 3rd

By Emily Price

Android 15 Beta: Our Top 5 Favorite Features So Far

Google drops the second Android 15 beta at I/O, bringing with it intriguing enhancements to privacy and security, so you can browse, game, and travel with confidence.

By Gabriel Zamora

Rate Your Desktop PCs, Monitors, Graphics Cards, Keyboards, and Mice Right Now to WIN

You could take home $250 for grading the desktop systems (even gaming PCs) and peripherals in your life, at home or work.

CEOs Hate Remote Work, But This Nobel Prize Winner Says It's a Win for Women

Claudia Goldin explains how the pandemic kicked off a trend that is changing childrearing for the better, and why it didn't happen earlier despite the tech being available.

By Emily Dreibelbis

Everything We Know About the New Silent Hill Movie

Almost 20 years after its first film adaptation, Silent Hill and director Christophe Gans are back for a sequel to the beloved horror game franchise.

By Jacqueline Goldblatt

Must Watch: The Most-Streamed TV Shows and Movies This Week

Need something to binge this weekend? Here are this week's most-watched titles from Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu, Max, Netflix, Paramount+ With Showtime, Peacock, Prime Video, and more.

By Eric Griffith  & Chandra Steele

OpenAI Prioritizes 'Shiny Products' Over AI Safety, Ex-Researcher Says

Jan Leike, who resigned from OpenAI this week alongside fellow researcher Ilya Sutskever, says he 'finally reached a breaking point' over the company's core priorities.

By Michael Kan

Amazon Prime Day 2024: Everything You Need To Know

Once again, you will be treated to the two biggest shopping days of the summer and some of the best deals on electronics courtesy of Amazon. It's like Black Friday in July!

By PCMag Staff

Neuralink Wants to Expand Brain Chip Trial to Second Human Patient

The first human patient, Noland Arbaugh, says the chip 'completely changed how I live,' despite a 'thread retraction' issue that will likely need to be addressed before a second trial begins.

By Michael Kan

OpenAI, Google Preview the Next Era of AI: Big Leap Forward or More of the Same?

A flood of new generative AI features out of Google I /O and OpenAI this week bode well for digital assistants like Alexa and Siri, but can they live up to the hype?

By Michael J. Miller

SpaceX's Starlink Doubles the Price for Its Global Roaming Plan

The plan can act as a loophole for subscribers to access Starlink in regions where the satellite internet service is not officially available.

By Michael Kan

Slack Trains Some of Its AI-Powered Features on User Messages, Files

Slack feeds user content, messages, and uploads to its machine learning models. All users are opted-in by default.

By Kate Irwin

What to Expect at Microsoft Build 2024

Copilot, AI, and Azure programming will feature strongly at Microsoft's annual developer conference, but there will likely be surprises—and even hardware.

By Michael Muchmore

What to Stream This Weekend

British and American fiction vie for our hearts this weekend.

By Chandra Steele

Elon Musk's X Changes Its Domain Name

Goodbye, Twitter dot com. The social media site finalizes its rebrand to X using a domain name Musk first bought back in 1999.

By Kate Irwin

OpenAI's ChatGPT Will Soon Feature Content From Reddit

Your Reddit posts might also be used to train ChatGPT, thanks to the new partnership.

By Michael Kan

Microsoft PC Manager App 'Repairs' Your System by Making Bing the Search Default

PC Manager will sneakily try to change the Edge browser's default search to Bing if it's been set to a third-party search engine such as Google.

By Michael Kan