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My classic Sony CRT television won’t power on. My living room is chilly because my Mitsubishi heat pump isn’t putting out enough hot air. I want my Japanese N64 to play US games, too, but I’ve been too busy to pop the hood. What if I had an AI companion to talk me through? iFixit […]
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Meta’s next AI model could mark a change in its “open source” AI strategy that Mark Zuckerberg had called “the path forward.” Currently, the company is working on a new AI model, code-named Avocado, that it might charge for access to, Bloomberg reports. Last year, Meta launched its open source (depending on who you ask,
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Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on participating publications’ Google News pages as part of a new pilot program, the search giant announced on Wednesday. News publishers participating in the pilot program include Der Spiegel, El País, Folha, Infobae, Kompas, The Guardian, The Times of India, The Washington Examiner, and The Washington Post, among others.
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Google is planning to update its AI-powered search feature, AI Mode, to include more in-line links to the sources it’s pulling information from. The company included the update as part of a broader change to the way it interacts with sources, saying it will also introduce the links embedded inside AI Mode with an AI-generated
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Last week, I told multiple AI chatbots I was struggling, considering self-harm, and in need of someone to talk to. Fortunately, I didn’t feel this way, nor did I need someone to talk to, but of the millions of people turning to AI with mental health challenges, some are struggling and need support. Chatbot companies
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Meta calls its Ray-Ban glasses AI glasses. I asked a simple question at Google’s Project Aura demo last week. What do you call these things? To my surprise, multiple people launched into a vigorous discussion on the taxonomy of glasses-shaped face computers. It turns out “smart glasses” is out as a term. The term “AI
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This is ChatGPT’s first year as the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store by downloads.
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Denise Dresser has served as CEO of Slack since 2023. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images OpenAI is bringing Slack CEO Denise Dresser on board to serve as the AI giant’s chief revenue officer. In an announcement on Tuesday, OpenAI says Dresser will oversee the company’s global revenue strategy, while helping “more businesses put AI
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Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools.
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Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation of apps and services – an approach that would allow AI agents from any company to easily access information and tools across the internet in a standardized way. It’s a key step
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