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An anonymous reader shares a report: France has lifted its travel ban on Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who is under investigation over illegal content on his messaging app, judicial sources close to the case said Thursday. The entrepreneur, 41, was detained in Paris in 2024 and is under formal inves...

Introducing SIMA 2, the next milestone in our research creating general and helpful AI agents. By integrating the advanced capabilities of our Gemini models, SIMA is evolving from an instruction-foll…

Google unveiled several new AI shopping features Thursday, as the search giant heightens competition with OpenAI and other AI companies working to incorporate more e-commerce features into their products. Google had previously announced some of the features at its I/O developer conference in May, including a “buy it for me” feature that allows users to set up price alerts for items where

Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company could soon give users the ability to create and consume AI-generated videos on Disney Plus.

As we wrote in this story on Tuesday, investors are rushing to back a new crop of research-focused AI labs (dubbed neolabs) hoping to outflank OpenAI and Anthropic. One investor, in particular, is driving most of these new startups: Nvidia.In Reflection AI’s October fundraising, for instance, ...

The iPad Pro launched in 2015, and has been one of Apple’s most impressive devices since. Now, the company is finally embracing that it’s a laptop.

The U.S. Army aims to buy at least a million drones in the next two to three years and could acquire anywhere from a half million drones to millions of them annually in the years that follow, U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll said.

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Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at Meta, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, which will focus on continuing his work on world models.

The platform's open channel feature will reportedly have the designation of Very Large Online Platform.

Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

Public records show DHS is deploying the "Homeland Security Information Network" at college protests and football games.

Today is the last day to pick up an Apple Watch SE 2 for $159.99 on Amazon, as the early Black Friday deal is set to end tonight.

According to a new report, YouTube TV is seeking even better rates on Disney channels than other providers, while Disney is losing money.

Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity has verified around 17.5 million people through its iris-scanning Orb device. The company has set a goal of reaching 1 billion users, so it is less than 2% of the way there. The startup has raised $240 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital...

Apple is delaying the release of next year’s version of the iPhone Air, its thinnest smartphone, after the first model sold below expectations, according to three people involved in the project. Although the length of the delay remains uncertain, the product won’t be released in fall 2026 as ...

Apple is planning a series of upgrades to its satellite features for the iPhone and its smartwatches. Also: The company is nearing a $1 billion-a-year deal to power a revamped Siri with a custom Google Gemini model, and Apple is readying the first low-cost MacBook in a bid to compete with Windows laptops.

The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.

Montana has made history as the first state in the U.S. to legally protect its citizens’ right to access and use computational tools and artificial intelligence technologies. Governor Greg Gianforte signed Senate Bill 212, officially known as the Montana Right to Compute Act (MRTCA), into law. The groundbreaking legislation affirms Montanans’ fundamental right to own […]

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Apple is planning a series of upgrades to its satellite features for the iPhone and its smartwatches. Also: The company is nearing a $1 billion-a-year deal to power a revamped Siri with a custom Google Gemini model, and Apple is readying the first low-cost MacBook in a bid to compete with Windows laptops.

When people are made to feel as if data collection and abuse are inevitable, they are more likely to accept it.

NextGov: The IRS has notified states that offered the free, government tax filing service known as Direct File in 2025 that the program won't be available next filing season. In an email sent from the IRS to 25 states, the tax agency thanked them for collaborating and noted that "no launch date has ...

Apple TV is about to wrap its best year ever, and in a new interview, Eddy Cue and more talk the 2026 pipeline, ad-supported plans, and more.

When will these Big Tech platforms learn?

Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming that the company's GPT-4o model was released prematurely and without effective

For the first time, Apple TV is heading to the Grammys, earning four nominations across major music categories for 'F1 The Movie' and 'Severance.'

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Pluribus, a new sci-fi series from Breaking Bad’s creator, by all appearances delivers on the hype Apple TV has been stoking for months.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Denmark's government on Friday announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, ratcheting up pressure on Big Tech platforms as concerns grow that kids are getting too swept up in a digitized world of harmful con...