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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.

A new analyst report suggests that Apple will increase prices for three iPhone 17 models, when compared to iPhone 16...

Study Mode helps students walk through topics rather than just giving them answers. But there’s a glaring problem.

Apple has submitted its official response to the antitrust lawsuit the Justice Department filed against it last year.

Apple’s real estate spree in Silicon Valley continues, as the company is reportedly in contract to make another major Bay Area acquisition.

TikTok is launching Footnotes, its community notes-style feature that allows contributors to write and rate notes. Users in the US will soon start seeing Footnotes rated as helpful.

Google will sign the EU's AI code of practice, which provides a framework for compliance with the EU's AI Act.

Nilay helped score the Value Electronics annual TV Shootout. Here’s what goes on behind the scenes.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision for the future of AI with “personal superintelligence” for everyone, especially if it’s in the form of wearable glasses.

Amazon will pay the New York Times between $20 million and $25 million in cash each year to license its content for AI, the Wall Street Journal reported . That sum is equal to roughly 1% of the Times’s 2024 revenue. Under the deal, which was first announced in May, Amazon can use the Times’s content both for training AI models and for use in its products like Alexa. The deal is Amazon’s first

As new rules demand age checks and tighter access controls, Brits are turning to VPNs in droves, raising privacy fears and comparisons to authoritarian regimes.

“It’s about fucking time.”

YouTube is introducing age-detection technology to identify teens on the platform in the U.S. and apply protections.

Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge.

Online video service has overtaken ITV in overall TV viewing figures, though still behind BBC

The judge overseeing Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI struck down 16 of OpenAI’s 55 defenses on Tuesday, ruling that OpenAI “inappropriately asserted an excessive number of defenses, many of which appear to be irrelevant, redundant, insufficient, or immaterial.” Among the struck defenses, OpenAI had argued that Musk’s claims are invalid because he waited too long

Thanks, Sam

JPMorgan Chase may become the new host for Apple Card, with Apple reportedly viewing the bank as the preferred replacement for Goldman Sachs.

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With the new partnership, Bragi will offer headphone vendors the ability to access a GPT-based assistant via a button press or a wake word.

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I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday—new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such …