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The two companies announced the partnership at Google's annual I/O developer conference

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Well, that’ll look a lot more fly than the OG Google Glasses.

Apple was in danger of having to show up in court on May 27 if it didn't respond satisfactorily to a show cause order by Wednesday, but neither is no longer necessary.

With its Ray-Ban smart glasses, Meta Platforms has had the high-tech eyewear market pretty much to itself. But Google’s unveiling on Tuesday of its own glasses, using software developed with Samsung and to be made in conjunction with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, an edgy Korean eyewear brand, ...

At Google's I/O developer conference, it previewed new visual search, a search agent, and new personalization features coming this summer.

"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."

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SAG-AFTRA has filed a ULP against Epic Games for using a version of Darth Vader in Fortnite with an AI-generated voice.

Spotify announced on Monday that Apple has approved a new app update, allowing iPhone users in the U.S. to purchase individual audiobooks directly within Spotify now allows iPhone users in the U.S. to purchase individual audiobooks directly within the app.

Google’s AI research tool NotebookLM dropped on the App Store for iOS and iPadOS a day earlier than expected. If you haven’t used NotebookLM before, it’s Google’s AI research tool. You feed it source materials like PDFs, text files, MP3s, and more. Once your sources are uploaded, you can use Google’s AI to query the

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said it would acquire 23andMe, which filed for bankruptcy in March and would continue to offer consumer DNA testing services.

Whoa, look at the interior of this new Japanese restaurant in NYC called Shirokuro — all of the surfaces (floors, chairs, walls,

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President Trump’s attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away …

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman details why Apple Intelligence is such a disaster and how Apple plans to save it.

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China’s ADA Space has launched 12 satellites, the first of a network of thousands planned to cut reliance on ground-based processing of satellite data.

We directly compare the persuasion capabilities of a frontier large language model (LLM; Claude Sonnet 3.5) against incentivized human persuaders in an interactive, real-time conversational quiz setting. In this preregistered, large-scale incentivized experiment, participants (quiz takers) completed an online quiz where persuaders (either humans or LLMs) attempted to persuade quiz takers toward correct or incorrect answers. We find that LLM persuaders achieved significantly higher compliance with their directional persuasion attempts than incentivized human persuaders, demonstrating superior persuasive capabilities in both truthful (toward correct answers) and deceptive (toward incorrect answers) contexts. We also find that LLM persuaders significantly increased quiz takers' accuracy, leading to higher earnings, when steering quiz takers toward correct answers, and significantly decreased their accuracy, leading to lower earnings, when steering them toward incorrect answers. Overall, our findings suggest that AI's persuasion capabilities already exceed those of humans that have real-money bonuses tied to performance. Our findings of increasingly capable AI persuaders thus underscore the urgency of emerging alignment and governance frameworks.

Harvard’s Galileo Project has brought high-end academic research to a once-fringe pursuit, and the Pentagon is watching.

YouTube, now the most popular platform for consuming podcasts, is introducing a chart ranking shows by watch time.

The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI

Artificial intelligence is a broad term encompassing many different subtypes, from apps that can write poetry to algorithms that are able to spot patterns that would otherwise get missed – and now AI modeling has just played a major role in an Alzheimer's study.

Epic is asking the US District Court for the Northern District of California to force Apple to approve the Fortnite app's return to the US App Store.

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OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco, according to a report from Bloomberg.

The excellent puzzle gaming site has slowly been growing with new games and social features, and soon it’s getting a much-requested feature: a mobile app. It’s coming on May 19th for iPhone users, and you can pre-download it right here. [Link: Puzzmo is imagining a better newspaper games page | https://www.theverge.com/23929222/puzzmo-newspaper-games-crossword-zach-gage | The Verge]

Late Friday, Epic Games asked U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to compel Apple to reinstate Fortnite on the App Store