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Streaming Apps

Hassabis says Britain has a choice to shape the AI revolution, not just fear it

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Streaming Media

The chip that broke the rules on heat

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Gaming

Amazon Luna lets one subscriber host friends without extra accounts

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Start-ups

Pastor and wife say God told them to launch cryptocurrency, then face fraud charges

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Regulation / Compliance

Anthropic accused of leaving UK safety body out of testing for newest Claude model

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AI Assistants

OpenAI boss admits the ChatGPT owner lost its way, then reveals how it slowed itself down

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Gaming

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra: What you need to know

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Social Platforms

OpenAI admits it lost its way, then reveals how it slowed itself down

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Free Tiers & Pricing

What is Claude Fable 5.1? Anthropic's new flagship AI model explained

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Wearables

AI safety group urges US-China pause and 'mutually assured compute destruction'

Regulation / Compliance

Rogue OpenAI agents mistaken for hackers, Carlson interview claims

AI News

OpenAI's ChatGPT Skills takes aim at repeat office tasks

Start-ups

Leapmotor breaks from SUVs with new electric family hatchback

AI Assistants

Altman signals a safety pact between rival AI companies is coming

Privacy Controls

China completes world's largest fusion magnet in bid to lead the energy race

Data Breaches

AI breakthroughs in maths and medicine risk being lost in the noise

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Streaming Apps

Hassabis says Britain has a choice to shape the AI revolution, not just fear it

Rogue OpenAI agents mistaken for hackers, Carlson interview claims

Data Breaches

AI breakthroughs in maths and medicine risk being lost in the noise

OpenAI's ChatGPT Skills takes aim at repeat office tasks

Privacy Controls

China completes world's largest fusion magnet in bid to lead the energy race

Wearables

AI safety group urges US-China pause and 'mutually assured compute destruction'

AI Assistants

Altman signals a safety pact between rival AI companies is coming

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Mobile Apps

Hop Aero unveils Rook, a rocket built to launch from a shipping container

Gaming

Japan joins the AI arms race with 'boss' system that wrangles models

Apps

Instagram’s visible AI labels are misfiring again

Wearables

Screen‑free wearables want to be ignored. And that is the point

AI News

Gurus adopt chatbots as more people seek spiritual guidance from AI

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WordPress.com introduces paid subscriptions in its newsletters offerings

Web Tools

Microsoft relaunches Bing search, Edge browser — now AI-powered

Web Tools

Gain fast, secure access to a remote PC or laptop via AnyViewer

Web Tools

Visual code editor runs in the web browser, too

Web Tools

The many benefits of Google Translate

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AI

Claude's output now carries an invisible watermark. You cannot turn it off

AI

Meta says its AI is now open, and small enough to run at home. Both words need unpacking

AI

Adding 'reddit' to your search was the internet's last honest trick. It is being gamed

AI

Llama 2 is the most transparent AI model, shows new index

AI

Elon Musk's new AI venture xAI aims to unravel reality with stellar team and ambitious mission

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Security & Privacy

Update Zoom first. Then read how an AI found the flaw in under 20 prompts

Security & Privacy

The privacy switch on your iPhone has a leak

Security & Privacy

The scammer's costliest tool was patience. It has been automated

Security & Privacy

Use of multifactor authentication nearly doubles since 2020

Security & Privacy

The end of passwords is here

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  1. AI safety group urges US-China pause and 'mutually assured compute destruction'

  2. Rogue OpenAI agents mistaken for hackers, Carlson interview claims

  3. OpenAI's ChatGPT Skills takes aim at repeat office tasks

  4. Leapmotor breaks from SUVs with new electric family hatchback

  5. Altman signals a safety pact between rival AI companies is coming

  6. China completes world's largest fusion magnet in bid to lead the energy race

  7. Hassabis says Britain has a choice to shape the AI revolution, not just fear it

  8. AI breakthroughs in maths and medicine risk being lost in the noise

  9. Hinton says AI models understand language, not just mimic it

  10. Alibaba ran the largest AI distillation attack ever measured

Mobile Apps

Hop Aero unveils Rook, a rocket built to launch from a shipping container

Gaming

Japan joins the AI arms race with 'boss' system that wrangles models

Apps

Instagram’s visible AI labels are misfiring again

Wearables

Screen‑free wearables want to be ignored. And that is the point

AI News

Gurus adopt chatbots as more people seek spiritual guidance from AI

More Apps
Productivity

Canva has started sending the bill for the free tier

Web Tools

WordPress.com introduces paid subscriptions in its newsletters offerings

Web Tools

Microsoft relaunches Bing search, Edge browser — now AI-powered

Web Tools

Gain fast, secure access to a remote PC or laptop via AnyViewer

Web Tools

Visual code editor runs in the web browser, too

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AI

AI

Claude's output now carries an invisible watermark. You cannot turn it off

AI

Meta says its AI is now open, and small enough to run at home. Both words need unpacking

AI

Adding 'reddit' to your search was the internet's last honest trick. It is being gamed

AI

Llama 2 is the most transparent AI model, shows new index

AI

Elon Musk's new AI venture xAI aims to unravel reality with stellar team and ambitious mission

More AI
Security & Privacy

Update Zoom first. Then read how an AI found the flaw in under 20 prompts

Security & Privacy

The privacy switch on your iPhone has a leak

Security & Privacy

The scammer's costliest tool was patience. It has been automated

Security & Privacy

Use of multifactor authentication nearly doubles since 2020

Security & Privacy

The end of passwords is here

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Streaming Apps

Hassabis says Britain has a choice to shape the AI revolution, not just fear it

Gaming

Amazon Luna lets one subscriber host friends without extra accounts

Gaming

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra: What you need to know

Social Platforms

OpenAI admits it lost its way, then reveals how it slowed itself down

Gaming

Chamath Palihapitiya: AI is entering its third phase, and systems of record will decide the winners

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Gadgets

Intel's new facial ID solution

Gadgets

Raspberry Pi: compact computer built into a keyboard

Gadgets

Google Nest Hub Max: All you should know about Google’s smart display

Gadgets

Google Nest Hub Max: All you should know about Google’s smart display

Gadgets

Lightweight OS PIXEL for Raspberry Pi: run it on old Mac & PC

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Start-ups

New startup sets out to create AI-generated short-form videos

Start-ups

A directory of AI SaaS tools

Start-ups

Alfred uses AI to quickly summarize content

Start-ups

Chrome extension Eightify summarizes video content with AI

Crypto & Fintech

India’s UPI and Singapore’s PayNow integrated

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Phones

How a developer ran a 744 billion parameter AI model with no GPU at all

Streaming Media

The chip that broke the rules on heat

Wearables

How WhatsApp moves 100 billion messages a day without a single message stored

Gaming

Amazon Luna lets one subscriber host friends without extra accounts

AI News

OpenAI pauses new Pro sign-ups as demand for Astra overloads its top tier

AI ethics

Start-up flying weather balloons into hurricanes on purpose

Wearables

Leaked images reveal Meta's "Project Phoenix", a slim mixed-reality headset

Automation

Ex‑Google chief says Ukraine war has entered an "ominous" new phase

Start-ups

Pastor and wife say God told them to launch cryptocurrency, then face fraud charges

Cloud Storage

REGENT's electric "seaglider" completes first crewed flight over Rhode Island bay

Scams & Fraud

Inside China's "dark factories": no lights, no workers, no stopping

Regulation / Compliance

Anthropic accused of leaving UK safety body out of testing for newest Claude model

AI in Law

Table salt could power America's electric grid

Search

Google removes live travel pricing from EU search to comply with Digital Markets Act

Start-ups

Beijing tightens the rules for humanoid robot listings

Cloud

Virtual machines versus containers: the difference explained

AI News

Arm chief says AI will help cure cancer within our lifetime

microsoft over copyright infringement

Amazon and AT&T team up to challenge SpaceX's satellite dominance

AI News

German startup builds a quantum computer that plugs into a wall socket

Start-ups

Kalshi's commodity markets outpace early crypto growth

Phones

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max codes alone for 16 days straight

Tau Scaling Law

Why AI's biggest bottleneck isn't chips, it's electricity

Mobile Apps

Hop Aero unveils Rook, a rocket built to launch from a shipping container

Phones

Memory price surge threatens to make the next iPhone Apple's most expensive yet

Maps & Navigation

How Uber finds a nearby driver without scanning every car in the city

AI Assistants

How does an AI actually search the web? It doesn't

Privacy Controls

Your Wi-Fi router may already know exactly who you are

Search

Google Zero and the feedback loop: What this means for publishers

Gaming

Japan joins the AI arms race with 'boss' system that wrangles models

AI Assistants

OpenAI boss admits the ChatGPT owner lost its way, then reveals how it slowed itself down

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