Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using…
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Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping
Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for…
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Retro gaming is being overrun with AI
Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the…
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Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them
Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google.…
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Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say
Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge …
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Meta turns Muse sharing back on
Meta has re-enabled Muse sharing after security researchers had reported that public conversation links could be easy to find. The researchers said they had been…
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Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares
Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about…
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Discord now formats Markdown previews right
Discord's latest update released today has a big improvement for Markdown previews: they should now render correctly instead of with "a bunch of symbols," according…
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In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your Muse
Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives - shopping for us, working for…
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Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions
For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now "it is finally here,"…
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Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI
The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring…
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Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’
Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It's a sprawling fantasy…
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters
It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show.…
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PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web
Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites…
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Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption
Today, I’m talking to Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may have noticed Bill in the…
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1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them
1Password is introducing a new feature that allows AI agents to sign into your accounts without actually seeing or handling your passwords. The aptly named…
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AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary.
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor…
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Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of…
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Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘’independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots
Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners…
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Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains
A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground…
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