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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told a judge who found that Google illegally monopolizes online search that a Justice Department proposal to share search data with rivals would be a "de facto" divestiture of the company's search engine. From a report: If Google were required to share both its search data...

Fearing regulation and the need for costly new systems verifying the age of users, Meta and Spotify are among a group lobbying Washington to have Apple and Google deal with it for them.

Duolingo is introducing 148 new language courses that were created with generative AI, the company announced on Wednesday. The launch comes as Duolingo

The latest Gemini app will be GitHub, with this Extension coming to the web. This is Gemini's latest third-party integration...

Wikipedia will employ AI to enhance the work of its human editors, it said Wednesday, also asserting that it has no plans to replace those editors. The Wikimedia Foundation plans to implement AI specifically for automating tedious tasks, improving information discovery, facilitating translations, an...

Meta says a coming WhatsApp feature called Private Processing will, on request, let users interact with Meta AI in a way that even Meta and WhatsApp can’t see.

Meta Platforms kicked off its first-ever LlamaCon, a conference for AI developers, on Tuesday, unveiling a fleet of new products. They included a standalone smartphone app for its Meta AI assistant and a preview of an application programming interface for developers to access its large language ...

Apple TV+ just released the trailer for its new film, Bono: Stories of Surrender, which will also be the first full-length ‘immersive’ video.

The shipping giant announced a reduced partnership with Amazon earlier this year

OpenAI, which spends far more money than it takes in, is trying something new to stanch the bleeding.

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Amazon plans to start showing shoppers on its e-commerce site how much of an item’s cost comes from tariffs, Punchbowl News reported on Tuesday. Asked about the report at a press conference, President Donald Trump’s press secretary called it a “hostile and political act by Amazon.“ The Punchbowl report said that Amazon will show how much Trump’s tariffs, which include a 145% levy on China,

Reddit called it an "improper and highly unethical experiment" and said it did not know it was happening.

iOS 18.5 is coming soon for iPhone users as beta testing wraps up soon, here’s the expected release date for Apple’s next update.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war. So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan. The shopping s...

Amazon has finally launched its first batch of Project Kuiper internet satellites.

When Trump officials want to censor speech, they don’t quite say “we want to censor speech” (after all, they pretend to be the party that “brought free speech back.”) Instead, the…

The Take It Down Act, which requires platforms notified of nonconsensual intimate images to take it down within 48 hours, passed the House in a landslide vote.

A 27-year-old Chinese university student living in Japan was rescued twice from Mount Fuji within the span of four days after he returned to the mountain...

The administration wants the iPhone to be manufactured in America. The components that power it show why that is highly impractical

The loans sat on banks’ books for 2½ years until Donald Trump’s election rapidly changed company’s fortunes

According to sources, scientists have achieved a breakthrough in quantum communication by successfully transmitting quantum messages over a record-breaking...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 23, 2025, titled "Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth," establishing a...

Apple is reportedly advancing the development of AI-powered smart glasses and next-generation AirPods, with both products expected to feature innovative...

Kickstarter will soon let creators charge an extra fee after their campaign has ended to cover the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone …

Democratic staff for a Senate subcommittee found that Elon Musk’s influence in the government could collectively save firms including SpaceX and Tesla billions.

Fraudsters are able to change their race, facial hair, voice, and more during live video calls with very little effort. Scammers are already fooling the elderly and verification systems.

A Bloomberg report over the weekend suggested that we may see Apple smart glasses as an interim step along the...