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Study Mode helps students walk through topics rather than just giving them answers. But there’s a glaring problem.

Apple has submitted its official response to the antitrust lawsuit the Justice Department filed against it last year.

Apple’s real estate spree in Silicon Valley continues, as the company is reportedly in contract to make another major Bay Area acquisition.

TikTok is launching Footnotes, its community notes-style feature that allows contributors to write and rate notes. Users in the US will soon start seeing Footnotes rated as helpful.

Google will sign the EU's AI code of practice, which provides a framework for compliance with the EU's AI Act.

Nilay helped score the Value Electronics annual TV Shootout. Here’s what goes on behind the scenes.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision for the future of AI with “personal superintelligence” for everyone, especially if it’s in the form of wearable glasses.

Amazon will pay the New York Times between $20 million and $25 million in cash each year to license its content for AI, the Wall Street Journal reported . That sum is equal to roughly 1% of the Times’s 2024 revenue. Under the deal, which was first announced in May, Amazon can use the Times’s content both for training AI models and for use in its products like Alexa. The deal is Amazon’s first

As new rules demand age checks and tighter access controls, Brits are turning to VPNs in droves, raising privacy fears and comparisons to authoritarian regimes.

“It’s about fucking time.”

YouTube is introducing age-detection technology to identify teens on the platform in the U.S. and apply protections.

Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge.

Online video service has overtaken ITV in overall TV viewing figures, though still behind BBC

The judge overseeing Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI struck down 16 of OpenAI’s 55 defenses on Tuesday, ruling that OpenAI “inappropriately asserted an excessive number of defenses, many of which appear to be irrelevant, redundant, insufficient, or immaterial.” Among the struck defenses, OpenAI had argued that Musk’s claims are invalid because he waited too long

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JPMorgan Chase may become the new host for Apple Card, with Apple reportedly viewing the bank as the preferred replacement for Goldman Sachs.

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With the new partnership, Bragi will offer headphone vendors the ability to access a GPT-based assistant via a button press or a wake word.

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I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday—new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such …

A new Apple Manufacturing Academy has been announced by the company, launching in Detroit on August 19. The iPhone maker...

Imax on Monday announced that it would screen the winning films from Runway’s AI-generated film festival at some of its theaters. Netflix recently said it had used AI to generate a scene in one of its shows for the first time: a building collapsing in The Eternaut, an Argentine sci-fi show.Both ...

A research paper has unveiled ASI-Arch, a autonomous AI research system that can independently discover and design novel neural network architectures,...

After a short beta period, Jack Dorsey’s new Bluetooth messaging app has officially launched on the App Store. Here’s how it works.

"The Senate GOP campaign arm is warning that Apple’s new iOS update could cost them $25 million in fundraising revenue, as well as priceless GOTV opportunities," Punchbowl News reports."Starting in the fall, Apple iOS will include a new message filter that some Republicans fear will punt polit

Samsung's new One UI 8 update has quietly disabled the ability to unlock the bootloader on all Galaxy devices globally, ending the custom ROM and kernel era for Android enthusiasts. While most users won't notice, the developer community sees this as a major blow to modding freedom -- one that could ...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Friday, OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent, which can perform multistep tasks for users, proved it can pass through one of the Internet's most common security checkpoints by clicking Cloudflare's anti-bot verification -- the same checkbox that's supp...