Tech & AI

Tech & AI

DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the General Services Administration, WIRED has confirmed. The move to automate tasks previously done by humans comes as DOGE continues its purge of the federal workforce. GSAi is meant to support “general” tasks, similar to commercial

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SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to

TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in Austin — in search of the zeitgeist of this AI-centric era. Yup, we’re one sentence in and AI has already made its entrance. And why not? A quick scan of the massive

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Women Are Breaking Into Cybersecurity, But Losing Jobs Faster Than Men

Gender diversity in cybersecurity is slowly improving but inequities continue—a new report finds that the field has 5% more women than in 2023, but that they’re more exposed to other workplace challenges than male counterparts. About 32% of women respondents said their organizations experienced security layoffs over the last year compared to just 23% of

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Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day 2025: How to get free ice cream on April 8

FREE ICE CREAM: On April 8, celebrate Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day by enjoying free ice cream at participating Scoop Shops worldwide. Hot on the heels of Dairy Queen, Ben & Jerry’s has announced the date of its Free Cone Day in 2025. Lovers of ice cream can get their hands on a free

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SpaceX’s Latest Starship Explosion Marks Two Consecutive Failures

SpaceX has contracts with NASA worth approximately $4 billion to design and develop a human-rated Moon lander based on the Starship design. The Starship lander is a central piece of NASA’s architecture for the Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface later this decade. For Starship to fly to the Moon,

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Cursor in talks to raise at a $10B valuation as AI coding sector booms

Investor interest in AI coding assistants is exploding. Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, is in talks with venture capitalists to raise capital at a valuation of nearly $10 billion, Bloomberg reported. The round, if it transpires, would come about three months after Anysphere completed its previous fundraise of $100 million at a

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Hidden Risks in European Enterprise IT Assets

Europe is on a march to expand its digital operations to keep apace with the growth rate seen in the US and China. This effort is not only scaling up the continent’s enterprise IT landscape but also introducing new layers of complexity. In 2022 alone, the EU poured €127 billion into digital-related investments to boost

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John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush reveal their character inspirations for The Rule of Jenny Pen

The Rule of Jenny Pen is set in a unique location for a horror film: a secluded rest home. Acting legends John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush divulge their own inspirations for their characters and what drew them to the roles. And Mashable Entertainment Editor, Kristy Puchko, has the delightful task of educated them on the

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The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome

The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of its final remedy proposal in a landmark antitrust case. The proposal, filed Friday afternoon, says that Google must “promptly and fully divest Chrome, along with any assets or services necessary to successfully complete the divestiture, to a buyer approved

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Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsoft’s Copilot bot. Microsoft has developed its own AI “reasoning” models comparable to models like OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, the The Information reports. OpenAI is said to have refused

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