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“TikTok is going to go dark,” commerce secretary warns as negotiations falter.

AMD CEO Lisa Su said that chips produced at TSMC's new Arizona plant will cost 5-20% more than those made in Taiwan, but emphasized that the premium is worth it for supply chain resilience. Bloomberg reports: AMD expects its first chips from TSMC's Arizona facilities by the end of the year, Su said...

The long-awaited approval concludes a heavily scrutinized merger and regulatory clearance process.

Social media has been fragmented since Twitter got X’d and cleared the path for Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and others. Still,...

"We're getting a lot of stuff that looks like gold, but it's actually just crap,” said the founder of one security testing firm. AI-generated security vulnerability reports are already having an effect on bug hunting, for better and worse.

Apple’s website now lets you create your own custom wallpaper featuring the iconic Apple logo in a unique design. Here’s how it works.

GPT-5 is expected to arrive in early August

Google shared new stats about its AI features' adoption during its Q2 earnings.

Julian LeFay, widely regarded as the "Father of The Elder Scrolls," has died at age 59 following a battle with cancer. IGN reports: It was announced last week that LeFay, now co-founder and technical producer at OnceLost Games, had stepped back from game development after a lengthy battle with canc...

Alphabet kicked off earnings season for social media companies with good news from YouTube: the video juggernaut’s advertising revenue rose 13% year over year in the second quarter, beating its growth rate in the first quarter and calming fears that President Trump’s tariffs would be a headwind ...

During the Q2 2025 call, Pichai shared some updates on Google AI Mode’s progress, with the latest features (Gemini 2.5 Pro) now rolling out.

The AI, dubbed Elsa, is supposed to be making employees better at their jobs.

It seems Luckey's military technology startup is considering a product slightly different from its current portfolio.

Uber will soon roll out its "women preference" feature in the U.S., starting with Detroit, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Apple is expanding the capability of its In-App Purchase framework with a new retention messaging API. This means, for the...

Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.

Rules will include EU-style curbs on app stores.

The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.

Apple is adding a retention facility to the App Store, meaning if a user cancels their subscription to an app, its developer can try to talk them out of leaving with an offer.

Evil AI is contagious, researchers found, as part of a joint research project between Truthful AI and the Anthropic Fellows program. The new study could upend AI safety.

Lumo is a new privacy-focused chatbot from the company behind ProtonMail.

AppleCare One offers a good deal for protecting your Apple hardware in some cases. Here's how it compares to the standard AppleCare+ plans.

I’ve been reading this week about how humans learn, and effective ways of transferring knowledge. In addition, I’ve also had AI in the back of my mind, and...

Aeneas aims to “connect the past” by providing researchers with historical parallels.

The Trump administration’s new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned of an "impending fraud crisis" in banking, given the huge threat that AI poses to current methods of authentication

During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

After an appeals court blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel rule, Democrats are trying to pass new laws and appeal to the agency to re-create it.

Meta Platforms has hired three more artificial intelligence researchers from Google DeepMind as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues his aggressive efforts to recover from stumbles earlier this year with an unprecedented AI recruiting push. The latest hires—Tianhe Yu, Cosmo Du and Weiyue Wang— ...

In the 1990s, the U.S. called Microsoft a bullying monopoly and sought to rein it in. The company lost in a landmark decision, but emerged intact.