AI

OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

If adopted by the 400 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, OpenAI's browser could put pressure on a key component of rival Google's ad-money spigot.

 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo, Japan, February 3, 2025; illustrative.
 Perplexity AI logo is seen in this illustration taken January 4, 2024.

Nvidia-backed Perplexity launches AI-powered browser to take on Google Chrome

 AI cracks Hammurabi’s ancient script with near-perfect accuracy.

AI cracks Hammurabi’s ancient script with near-perfect accuracy

 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reacts as he testifies at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on US President Donald Trump's State Department budget request for the Department of State, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, May 20, 2025.

Rubio impersonator uses AI to contact US gov't officials, attempts to steal information


Shocking study: ChatGPT may shrink your brain activity and trigger memory loss

New MIT study reveals: Using AI for writing leads to a 55% decrease in brain activity and severe memory difficulties in 83% of participants.

 Participants who used AI showed the lowest level of brain engagement

NVIDIA's 'mega campus' to expand in northern Israel with new research data center facility

Hi-tech giant NVIDIA submitted a Request for Information to purchase land in northern Israel for the construction of a new research facility on Sunday morning.

Nvidia offices

When internal development isn’t enough: Apple considers external help to upgrade Siri

Amid difficulties in independently developing an AI-based Siri, Apple is exploring the integration of models from OpenAI or Anthropic into its infrastructure.

 Siri, Apple

AI helps decode cuneiform tablets revealing Babylon's hidden hymn

"Using our AI-supported platform, we managed to identify 30 other manuscripts that belong to the rediscovered hymn - a process that would formerly have taken decades".

 A cuneiform tablet with the hymn.

Lydia: A lifeline for PTSD sufferers and their families

An AI-powered assistant offers emotional, practical, and bureaucratic support for every step of the healing journey.

 YULIA FRIDMAN (L) & CHEN SHAKLIAR: "Our idea was to develop an app that would accompany people on their journey of living with PTSD".

Nesher leads the future: AI as an educational and national tool - opinion

The benefits of this new approach to education extend far beyond the classroom. We’re talking about a deep shift in how learning is conceived.

 THE WRITER speaks with schoolchildren as COVID restrictions were lifted. ‘Today, they are students; tomorrow, they will lead the systems that transform the way we live.’

Study: Even when responses are identical, people prefer human empathy over AI

Participants were willing to wait days for a human reply rather than get an immediate chatbot response.

 Study: Even when responses are identical, people prefer human empathy over AI. Illustration.

We tested the new AI browser – and it might make you leave Google Chrome

We tested Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company – and discovered it hides a smart chat that understands every page you browse, and helps you summarize, ask questions, and act faster.

 Dia browser

Israel's Cato Networks valued at over $4.8 billion in latest funding round

Cato Networks plans to use the new capital to enhance its AI-driven security capabilities, increase investment in research and development and expand its global footprint.

 An illustrative image of an Israeli using security programs on a computer.

New from WhatsApp: A new tool that will save you from the flood of group messages

The Meta AI assistant quickly summarizes unread chat messages without revealing content to Meta or WhatsApp, combining AI convenience with full end-to-end encryption protection.

 WhatsApp. A series of updates in recent months

The AI paradox: Master it - but don't use it? - opinion

As schools and companies rush to train people in artificial intelligence, they still punish those who use it “too much.” This contradiction is unsustainable.

Letters "AI" stand at the booth of AWS (Amazon Web Services) during preparations ahead of the opening of the Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade fairs with this year's partner country Canada, in Hanover, Germany, March 30, 2025.