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The parents of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting, have created an AI version of their late son.

Amazon is restructuring the podcast studio Wondery as video podcasting becomes increasingly popular.

Airlines, including Delta, are testing artificial intelligence in pricing. Get ready for what one startup calls the “exploitation phase.”

Ahead of iOS 26 launching this fall, Apple Music for Android is beta testing version 5.0.0 with new features and design tweaks.

Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Apple appears committed to its original Apple Intelligence strategy.

Palantir Technologies successfully sued the U.S. Army in 2016. Times have changed.

: On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker approved a new law banning the use of artificial intelligence systems in providing psychotherapy services.

Synchron shows a man navigating an iPad using only his brain, made possible by a BCI implant and Apple’s new native brain input support.

xAI’s new Grok Imagine tool is an AI image and video generator that encourages users to make NSFW content.

The tech giant is leaning more into video and the creator world.

Perplexity has long been accused of bypassing anti-scraping measures. A new report shows that it may actually be getting worse.

To celebrate Apple’s upcoming 50th anniversary, Pogue is releasing a book where he promises stories, photos, and “fresh interviews.”

Apple is expanding its growing lineup of original podcasts with Unicorn Girl, a new nine-part investigative series debuting this month.

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends the practice.

Despite securing big names in the business, the company is now shifting its strategy in an effort to better compete with rivals like Spotify and YouTube.

The discoveries by an AI-based bug hunter are significant, as it shows these tools are starting to get real results, even if they still need a human.

Craig Newmark’s simple site was hailed as a disruptor and blamed for the collapse of classifieds. But journalism’s business failures ran deeper.

Apple has a new “Answers” team developing a stripped-down rival to ChatGPT to help users access world knowledge. Also: An iPhone 17 Pro is spotted in San Francisco, and Apple loses its fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta. Lastly, more on Apple’s latest executive changes.

A.I. technologists are approaching the job market as if they were Steph Curry or LeBron James, seeking advice from their entourages and playing hardball with the highest bidders.

A Miami jury decided Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly 2019 crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology. The automaker said it will appeal.

YouTube has started testing a new collaboration feature, similar to Instagram's and TikTok's.

Apple has dropped several hints that its next Apple TV will be a gaming console powerful enough to compete with PlayStation and Xbox.

Podcasts hosted by venture capitalists set the narrative in tech, changing the way that insiders—and everyone else—learn about the world of startups.

On Friday, Anthropic debuted research unpacking how an AI system’s “personality” — as in, tone, responses, and overarching motivation — changes and why. Researchers also tracked what makes a model “evil.”

While some may say that “Apple doesn’t acquire big companies like that,” today, CEO Tim Cook offered a different perspective.