A Look at OpenAI’s Operator, a New A.I. Agent

In the past week, OpenAI’s Operator has done the following things for me: Ordered me a…

Technology Trends for 2025 – O’Reilly

Welcome to our annual report on the usage of the O’Reilly learning platform. It’s been an exciting…

DARPA Grand Challenge: 20 Years Later

The 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge was a spectacular failure. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had offered…

30% off Samsung Promo Codes – February 2025

Samsung makes everything from gaming monitors to dishwashers. I’m always looking for a sale (I’m assuming…

Rats in cities like New York and DC are on the rise — here’s why

If we are, as some city officials have said, in a war with rats, we are…

The Download: Climate tech under Trump, and scaling up quantum computing

1 Trump advisers were blindsided by Elon Musk’s team’s offer to federal workersOfficials weren’t consulted about…

Backline automatically remediates security vulnerabilities

Backline, a new security startup that uses AI agents to automatically remediate security vulnerabilities, is coming…

This Window Heat Pump I Saw at CES Is Super Easy to Install

The Gradient All-Weather 120V Window Heat Pump I saw at CES 2025 was blowing crisp, cool air onto the floor…

OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Improperly Harvested Its Data

OpenAI says it is reviewing evidence that the Chinese start-up DeepSeek broke its terms of service…

Biggest Doesn’t Win – O’Reilly

January has been notable for the number of important announcements in AI. For me, two stand…