OpenAI signs deal with Palmer Luckey’s Anduril to develop military AI

OpenAI has partnered with defense startup Anduril Industries to develop AI for the Pentagon. The companies said on Wednesday that they’ll combine OpenAI’s models, including GPT-4o and OpenAI o1, with Anduril’s systems and software to improve the US military’s defenses against unpiloted aerial attacks. The deal comes less than a year after OpenAI softened its … Read more

DeepMind’s GenCast AI is really good at forecasting the weather

When Helene made landfall in Florida earlier this year, 234 people lost their lives to the worst hurricane to strike the US mainland since Katarina in 2005. It’s natural disasters like that, and their growing intensity due to climate change, that have pushed scientists to develop more accurate weather forecasting systems. On Wednesday, Google’s DeepMind … Read more

A physical deck of Balatro cards can soon be yours for $16

If your group chat is anything like Engadget’s Slack, Balatro probably comes up several times a week. The indie poker-style title is one of the most talked-about games of the year for good reason: it’s endlessly compelling. But what if you don’t have a laptop, phone, Steam Deck, Switch or other console nearby and you need … Read more

Threads now allows users to follow fediverse accounts directly in its app

Meta is taking another important step toward making Threads interoperable with the fediverse. The app now allows users to follow accounts from Mastodon and other fediverse apps directly from Threads, Mark Zuckerberg said in an update. Since the early days of Threads, Meta has promised to bake-in support for ActivityPub, the open-source protocol that powers … Read more

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