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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston. On Thursday, autonomous trucking firm Aurora announced it launched commercial service in Texas under its first customers, Uber Fr...

While Apple works to boost Apple Intelligence, the company is reportedly teaming up with Anthropic to integrate Claude with Xcode,...

Google is releasing a NotebookLM app on May 20, bringing the AI-powered research tool to Android and iOS.

Both by getting an exemption, and by toiling for seven years to diversify its iPhone manufacturing efforts outside of China, the $900 million estimate of tariff impacts in the third quarter is paltry compared to what it could have been, and is for other companies.

Apple Music just put a long-time TikTok exec in charge of leading the streamer’s “strategy and innovation,” hinting at change ahead.

Epic takes no cut for first $1 million in annual per-game revenue under new plan.

Apple quickly approved updated app with payment links, prices, and promotions.

Apple said a majority of its devices shipped into the U.S. in the June quarter will originate in India and Vietnam, a move to allay investor concerns about the impact of tariffs on its operations. From a report: The company was among the hardest-hit of the tech giants last month because of its expos...

Apple is restructuring its Apple Music and global affairs divisions, with the music unit now being co-managed by longtime executive Rachel Newman and former...

The Karnataka High Court has directed the Indian government to block Proton Mail, a Switzerland-based encrypted email service, following complaints about...

According to NBC Connecticut and Business Insider, a federal judge has ruled that Apple and its Vice President of Finance Alex Roman lied under oath during...

Amazon has launched Nova Premier, its most capable AI model to date, designed to excel at complex tasks requiring deep context understanding, multistep...

Apple has sent notifications to individuals in 100 countries who may have been targeted by sophisticated mercenary spyware attacks on their iPhones, with an...

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Pinterest is launching new features that will label images that are detected to be made or edited using generative AI, and allow users to see fewer of them.

Microsoft is significantly increasing the cost of its Xbox consoles, controllers, and some games as tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump drive up the cost of electronics manufacturing. Microsoft said in a statement that the cost increases, which amount to a more than 20% markup for its most popular Xbox models, are due to “market conditions and the rising cost of development,” without

The AirBorne vulnerability disclosed on Tuesday affects millions of products, including Apple's discontinued and fan-favorite AirPort routers. A petition hopes to change that.

Google's Gemini chatbot app now lets you modify both AI-generated images and images uploaded from your phone or computer.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Apple sent notifications this week to several people who the company believes were targeted with government spyware, according to two of the alleged targets. In the past, Apple has sent similar notifications to targets and victims of spyware, and ...

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About 63% of workers have seen other employees using AI inappropriately, according to a new survey.

When it comes to artificial intelligence, Mark Zuckerberg is not holding back. Meta Platforms revealed Wednesday it was raising its projected capital spending for this year to as high as $72 billion, from a previous high of $65 billion outlined in January. If Meta spent at the upper level of its ...

“This is an injunction, not a negotiation. … The Court will not tolerate further delays.”…

A US judge says Apple deliberately chose not to comply with an order requiring it to loosen App Store rules—and then tried to cover up its disobedience.

In a blistering ruling , a federal judge accused Apple of defying an earlier decision in a longrunning antitrust case related to its App Store policies and asked federal prosecutors to investigate whether criminal contempt charges against the company are merited. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District Court in northern California said that Apple had violated an injunction that the

A new Visa initiative gives AI tools the ability to find, select, and pay for goods and services on behalf of consumers.

Apple has lost its latest legal battle with Epic Games over App Store commissions. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Fortnite...

Antitrust enforcers at the Washington trial are pursuing an order that would force the tech giant to sell its Chrome web browser.

Google’s CEO shared today that he is ’hopeful’ a deal will be struck soon to integrate Gemini with Apple Intelligence.