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Apple has begun breaking up its AI and machine learning organization by moving pieces to other parts of the company. Also: Meta races to get smart glasses with a display out this year and new details on Apple’s plan to shift iPhone production to India. In other news, the Apple Watch’s blood-oxygen feature remains elusive in the US even as the company touts other health offerings.

Donald Trump’s FCC chairman Brendan Carr has focused on dismantling consumer protections and pressuring companies to end diversity efforts.

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A brand new Apple Vision ‘Air’ product that’s lighter and cheaper could launch as soon as this year, per Mark Gurman.

Cause likely not malicious; Red Electrica blames outage on “grid oscillation.”…

The company said the investment will allow it to continue making its mainframe and quantum computers in America

The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It’s a cross between the …

Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.

A New York Times technology columnist has a question. "Is there any threshold at which an A.I. would start to deserve, if not human-level rights, at least the same moral consideration we give to animals?" [W]hen I heard that researchers at Anthropic, the AI company that made the Claude chatbot, w...

Adobe Enhance Speech turns audio from Apple Notes, Google Recorder, or any other source into a crisp, clear recording in seconds.

Google announced this week that beginning on October 25, it will no longer support or release software updates for the first and second generation Nest

DoorDash is asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Uber in February, calling it a "cynical and calculated scare tactic."

"A group of researchers says it has identified a hidden reason we use Google for nearly all web searches," reports the Washington Post. "We've never given other options a real shot." Their research experiment suggests that Google is overwhelmingly popular partly because we believe it's the best, wh...

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Amid the ongoing antitrust lawsuit, it's been revealed that OpenAI, Perplexity, and Yahoo are all interested in buying Google Chrome.

The nation’s only dedicated privacy agency is attracting international attention over its California rules that could have wider impacts.

In an unusual letter to the California Privacy Protection Agency’s board, Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging the regulators to dial back proposed regulations on automated decision-making technology.

Google says that more and more users are turning to its AI-powered search features, including AI Overviews and Circle to Search.

Google is testing AI-generated highlight clip reels on YouTube, potentially expanding its AI overview toolset.

A popular Australian radio station’s experiment with an AI DJ has gone unnoticed for months, as reported by the Australian Financial Review.

Apple plans to shift the assembly of all US-sold iPhones to India [alternative source] as soon as next year, according to Financial Times, which cites people familiar with the matter, as President Donald Trump's trade war forces the tech giant to pivot away from China. From the report: The push buil...

During testimony at Meta’s antitrust trial, the Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be.

A new report suggests that Apple CEO Tim Cook has lost faith in his AI/ML chief John Giannandrea and is shifting the robotics team to hardware headed by John Ternus.

Exec says lack of “price transparency and predictability” drove customers away.