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At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.

As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Apple today announced updates aimed at helping parents protect kids online, as part of its broader push to make Apple platforms safer.

Leading artists said the bill needed to be changed to protect them from having their work copied by AI.

Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas said Thursday that US export controls on China threaten to slow overall technological advances and are ultimately bad for consumers and companies, aligning himself with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang and others looking to ease tensions between Washington and Beijing.

The iPhone maker quietly updated a February security advisory to publicize a flaw that was used to hack at least two journalists in Europe.

Apple Inc. has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort.

Full text of the tentative SAG-AFTRA agreement will be released June 18 for a ratification vote period that ends July 9

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Regeneron is backing away from buying the DNA-testing company after a nonprofit controlled by co-founder Wojcicki made a higher bid

Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity.

Apple’s unveiling of iOS 26 and the Liquid Glass interface was the most discussed part of its developers conference, but the real gems were its enhancements to CarPlay, the Vision Pro and the iPad. Also: Delayed Siri upgrades are now targeted for next spring; Apple’s AI chief lies low at WWDC; and the company gets cozier with OpenAI.

Allison Kirkby says telecoms group could be ‘even smaller’ by 2030

From Airbnb’s new app icons to Apple’s “Liquid Glass” design, skeuomorphism is back and everything in the digital world has dimensionality again.

New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.

An empty shell for years, the mall in Lanesborough, Mass., shows how difficult it is to redevelop malls in smaller towns.

On the the engineering challenges and lessons learned from building Claude's Research system

One of the stylish visual changes to the iPhone on iOS 26 is a new layout for the lock screen...

More intelligent automations are coming

It’s a common enough problem: you’re hitting the books, your phone dings with a notification, and suddenly it’s three hours later. While you’ve done lots of scrolling, you d…

America's federal government is building a website and API called ai.gov to "accelerate government innovation with AI", according to an early version spotted by 404 Media that was posted on GitHub by the U.S. government's General Services Administration. That site "is supposed to launch on July 4,...

Huang believes that AI technologies will open more career opportunities in the future.

The state of New York is "asking companies to disclose whether AI is the reason for their layoffs," reports Entrepreneur: The move applies to New York State's existing Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system and took effect in March, Bloomberg reported. New York is the first s...

A few months ago, security researcher Thomas Roche presented his fundamental research on secure elements used in the YubiKey 5.

Also: another paper that seals the deal

Patients using chatbots to assess their own medical conditions may end up with worse outcomes than conventional methods, according to a new Oxford study.

Rumors strongly suggest that Apple will be overhauling the MacBook Pro in 2026, marking five years since the previous redesign...

Free music resource designed to empower creative projects by students, non-profits, indie filmmakers, musicians and more.

Feature: Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel

A London couple located and reclaimed their Jaguar E-Pace this week using Apple’s AirTag, after local police chose not to act.