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Facebook has been showing some users a pop-up message asking them if they want to allow the social network to create collages, recaps and AI restylings using...

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In a recent study, BYU professors Jacob Steffen and Taylor Wells explored why some people are still reluctant to use GenAI tools. While some people might worry about an AI apocalypse, Steffen and Wells found that most non-users are more concerned with issues like trusting the results, missing the…

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.

Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.

It’s a natural consequence that an overly complicated law (the DMA) has resulted in an ever-more-complicated set of guidelines and policies (from Apple). It’s all downright byzantine.

New research from Duke, Surrey, and Hamburg universities may represent a tipping point in the path to AGI.

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HPE's must divest its Instant On business and Juniper will have to license its Mist AI software.

By Adi Robertson / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.

The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.

Republicans’ latest attempt to use President Donald Trump’s massive tax package to ban US states from enforcing artificial intelligence regulations has hit a snag that endangers a provision favored by AI titans.

Rejoice, couch potatoes. TikTok and Instagram, following YouTube’s lead, are working on ways to make it easier for viewers to watch videos from their apps on TV screens. The social media giants see an opportunity to grab some of the ad dollars flowing to the streaming TV market. Meta Platforms’ ...

From code to customer service, AI now handles up to 50% of Salesforce's work, says CEO Marc Benioff.

Within days of each other, two federal judges in the same district reached completely opposite conclusions about AI training on copyrighted works. Judge William Alsup said it’s likely fair us…

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YouTube is updating its live streaming age restrictions in July, but will still allow for teenagers to appear on the website with an adult.

A bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to...

Goldman Sachs has officially rolled out a generative AI assistant across the company to enhance productivity, with around 10,000 employees already using it for tasks like summarizing documents and data analysis. Reuters reports: With the AI tool's official company-wide launch, Goldman joins a long ...

Researchers are trying to come up with new, better ways to test AI.

Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

Citronics is the only company in the world able to transform retired smartphones into circular microcomputers, at industrial scale.

Like Google Maps, Google Earth is marking its 20th birthday this year. Other milestones (10 years) in 2025 include...

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Leading AI companies including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI are discovering significant inconsistencies in how their AI reasoning models operate, according to company researchers. The companies have deployed "chain-of-thought" techniques that ask AI models to solve problems step-by-...

Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.

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iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max will be unveiled in September, and these four new camera features are rumored to be announced.

In a move to bolt the stable door, US House of Representatives staff must stop using WhatsApp, and switch to a more secure service like Apple's Messages.