Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome. The tech giant will begin using Gemini Nano, its on-device large language model (LLM), on desktop to protect users against online sc…
Google is rolling out a feature in its Gemini API that the company claims will make its latest AI models cheaper for third-party developers.
Google calls the feature “implicit caching” and says it can deliver 75% savings on “repetitive …
Data and AI leader SAS has announced its latest offerings on the SAS® Viya® platform, spanning the latest leaps in AI advancement to scale and galvanise human productivity and decision-making.
“SAS is evolving its strategy and portfolio…
Apple is looking to add AI search engines from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic to Safari, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, made the statement during his testimony in the U.S. Just…
OpenAI is launching a program, OpenAI for Countries, that the company says will enable it to build out the local infrastructure needed to better serve international AI customers.
As a part of the new program, OpenAI will partner with …
Netflix is about to look different on your TV. The company is starting to roll out a big UI redesign for its TV app “in the coming weeks and months” globally, according to a blog post.
“Our redesigned TV homepage is simpler, more …
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI as CEO of Applications, the ChatGPT maker said on Thursday. Simo, already a board member at OpenAI, will transition out of Instacart over the next few months and join the AI company full-time late…
Figma is expanding its creative software ecosystem to allow product designers to complete entire projects without jumping to third-party apps. Four new products for website building, AI coding, branded marketing, and digital illustration…
Microsoft is revamping the Windows 11 Start menu and adding a glut of new AI features over the next month, coming first to Windows Insiders running Snapdragon X Copilot Plus PCs like the newly announced Surface devices. The new Start men…
Amazon has announced a new AI-infused warehouse robot that it says has a sense of touch. This allows the Vulcan robot to pick and stow roughly three-quarters of the items stocked in the company’s warehouses, a task that was previously ha…
Google on Tuesday announced the launch of Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition), an updated version of its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model that the company claims tops a number of widely used benchmarks.
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edit…
Redditors around the world were scandalized last week after learning that a team of researchers released a swarm of AI-powered, human-impersonating bots on the “Change My View” subreddit. The large-scale experiment was designed to explore …
Amazon Web Services is building a new AI-powered code generation tool codenamed “Kiro,” Business Insider reported, citing internal documents it had viewed.
The tool can use prompts and existing data to generate code in “near real-time…
YouTube is testing a YouTube Premium subscription plan designed for two people to use, Moneycontrol reports (via Android Authority). Company spokesperson Alex McQuiston confirmed to The Verge that the pilot is taking place in India, Fran…
WhatsApp’s web-based client may soon get voice and video call functionality built in, reports WABetaInfo. Currently, WhatsApp users who would like to make calls to others have to either rely on the mobile app or the PC or Mac app on desk…
Pinterest is upgrading its visual search feature with a handful of new capabilities.
On Monday, the company announced it’s rolling out new functionality to improve its feature that allows users to search using an image instead of text. …
Anthropic is launching an AI for Science program to support researchers working on “high-impact” scientific projects, with a focus on biology and life sciences applications.
The program, announced Monday, will offer up to $20,000 in Ant…
The 2025 Shanghai International Auto Show opened as scheduled, with GWM (www.GWM-Global.com)—one of China's leading brands in independent automotive innovation making a strong impression by showcasing its six major sub-brands: HAVA…
Google will unveil a new version of its Android design language at its upcoming Google I/O developer conference, according to an event schedule posted to its website, as well as an accidentally published Google blog post. The I/O session t…
Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. Bu…
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead of providing actually useful insights.
Systrom said the tactics represent “a force…
Google’s most expensive AI model seems to have crossed a major milestone: Beating a 29-year-old video game.
Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted triumphantly on X, “What a finish! Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!”
T…
Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move that journalist Brian Merchant pointed to as a sign that the AI jobs crisis “is here, now.”
In fact, Merchant spoke to a forme…
Apple is planning to shuffle its iPhone release schedule next year as it releases the first foldable iPhone to make things more manageable, reports The Information. The plan is for the foldable to come out with the iPhone 18 Pro and “Air…
South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texas’ Cameron County near the company’s Boca Chica Beach launch site on the Gulf of Mexico. The final tally was 2…
Today Canon (www.Canon-CNA.com) announces that it has been awarded the prestigious Platinum rating for its sustainability efforts by global sustainability ratings organisation EcoVadis. This accolade places Canon in the top 1% of c…
Airbnb started rolling out an AI-powered customer service bot in the U.S. last month, CEO Brian Chesky said during the firm’s first-quarter conference call on Thursday.
Chesky said 50% of Airbnb’s U.S. users are already using the AI bot…
When Google killed its diminutive Chromecast line to replace the dongles with the TV Streamer set-top box, not everyone was happy about the change. Fortunately, if you’re hankering after a new version of Google’s old streamer, the Thomso…
It’s not really a secret that the advertising industry is about to get upended by AI — one reason big platform companies like Google and Meta have been so deeply invested in photo and video generation is because they know the first heavy…
Pinterest is having some weird moderation issues. Reports of sweeping pin removals and account suspensions have appeared across social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and X, with many users saying they received no warning or expl…
Google is preparing to publicly unleash its AI Mode search engine tool for the first time. The company announced today that “a small percentage” of people in the US will start seeing an AI Mode tab in Google Search “in the coming weeks,”…
Following the release of the V20.0.0 firmware earlier this week that introduced features like Virtual Game Cards, some Switch users found their consoles unable to boot and displaying an error code after applying the update and restarting…
Rockstar Games is delaying the highly anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI to May 26th, 2026. The game had originally been planned to release in fall 2025, but Rockstar Games now says the team needs extra time “to deliver at the le…
Amazon’s upgraded digital assistant powered by generative AI, Alexa+, has rolled out to over 100,000 users, CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s earnings call Thursday.
While that’s a far cry from the 600 million Alexa devices out…
After supporting passwordless Windows logins for years and even allowing users to delete passwords from their accounts, Microsoft is making its biggest move yet toward a future with no passwords. Now it will ask people signing up for new…
Microsoft has been instructing engineers working on its AI infrastructure to get ready to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI model, according to a trusted source familiar with the plans. In recent weeks Microsoft has been in discussions with…
Microsoft has significantly raised prices for its Xbox console, citing increasing development costs and what it called "market conditions".
The increases vary from country to country, with Xbox Series S consoles going up by £50 to £29…
Google is expanding access to AI Mode, its experimental feature that allows users to ask complex, multipart questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within Search. The tech giant is also adding more functionality to the f…
2024 was shaping up to be the year Congress regulated how kids engage with social media, particularly through one bill, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). A debate about its risks to free expression still raged, but the voices of the bil…
Google’s AI-based note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM is making its Audio Overviews feature available in 76 new languages, the company announced on Tuesday. Audio Overviews launched last year to give users the ability to generate…
OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o — issues that forced the company to roll back an update to the model released last week.
Over the weekend, following th…
Canon Europe (www.Canon-Europe.com) today announces the RF 75-300mm F4-5.6, a lightweight, easy-to-use telephoto zoom lens that’s ideal for users starting out in nature and sports photography with an EOS R System camera.
With it…
As life in Spain and Portugal stutters back to normal, the big questions are not just what went wrong but how to prevent such a full-scale power failure from happening again.
It was not until 11:15 (09:15 GMT) on Tuesday, almost 23 ho…
Scientists have reprogrammed a robot vacuum cleaner to help charge a phone and assist in a home workout because they think the machines are currently too "idle".
Researchers from the University of Bath say the increasingly popular dom…
At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer conference on Tuesday, Meta announced an API for its Llama series of AI models: the Llama API.
Available in limited preview, the Llama API lets developers explore and experiment with products power…
On Tuesday, Meta held its first-ever AI developer conference, LlamaCon, at its Menlo Park, California, headquarters. The company announced the launch of a consumer-facing Meta AI chatbot app, which will compete with ChatGPT, as well as a d…
Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation is starting to take shape, with its first batch of satellites shipped and deployed into space on Monday. The launch is just the first of 80 that Amazon has lined up to take all 3,236 Project…
Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be “AI-first.” The email was posted on Duolingo’s Li…
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday.
When ChatGPT users search for products, the chatbot will now offer a few recommenda…
Yelp said on Tuesday that it’s working on deploying AI-powered “voice agents” to help service providers and restaurants handle calls, answer basic questions, and accomplish tasks like adding a customer to a restaurant waitlist.
Yelp say…