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The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
Build with Claude API — the most capable AI for complex reasoning tasks.
India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tes...
Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple...
Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relyin...
The platform for open-source AI models, datasets, and ML apps.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it. Peri...
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.
Perimenopause has entered the chat. Perimenopause—and its better-known relative, menopause—used to be considered taboo. Not anymore, thanks at least in part to TV doctors and social media influencers....
Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecasts are something that most people glance...
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.
Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from promp...
Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lot...
With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.
Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply ac...
DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward softwar...
You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.
Google must give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search after the European Union ordered the company to comply with the bloc's digital antitrus...
I stood before a hulking glass and brick structure in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. Thousands gathered inside to see what had been billed as "the future of policing in the digital age." As press, I...
I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.
It feels as if it should be illegal to even think about heating appliances during the height of summer—seriously, these heat waves in New York have been brutal—but we need to talk about heat pumps. Th...
Babies are tremendous learning machines, and key advances for AI may soon be found in the architecture of their little brains.
The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out o...
US military’s drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.
The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.
New York’s data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.
The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory. Inside will be some 100 stainless-steel cabinets, each about six feet...
OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.
Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled.
Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.
Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run "for hours if needed."
Preclinical trial is testing the feasibility of humanoid robots in surgery.
OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.
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