Apple's new Siri AI on WatchOS 27 beta outperformed the old Siri on WatchOS 26 in real-world tests on an Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Series 11, correctly answering questions about ferry schedules, butterm…
Google announced two updates to its AI video creation tool Google Vids, enabling users to star in AI-generated videos by submitting a selfie and voice recording to create a personal avatar, and integr…
Hundreds of US cities that adopted Flock Safety's AI license plate detection cameras are now canceling contracts amid privacy concerns and data-sharing with ICE, according to experts and the ACLU. A U…
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Apple alleging former employees stole trade secrets to aid the ChatGPT maker's hardware ambitions, but the company's bigger challenge is proving its planned AI device is sa…
CNET reports that users can disable AI model training and delete conversations in Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, and OpenAI's ChatGPT to protect their data. For Gemini, users must turn off Web &…
Siri AI, part of Apple's iOS 27 beta, helped a CNET editor avoid eating lettuce linked to a parasitic outbreak by warning of the risk and describing symptoms. The improved assistant, set for release t…
1Password announced a new integration with Anthropic's Claude that allows the AI agent to use stored passwords for logging into sites like Audible and Stripe without ever seeing the passwords themselv…
CNET reports that most AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude, default to using user data for model training, but users can opt out through settings. For Gemini, users must disa…
Meta announced Thursday it will add safety features to its AI chatbot, including parental notifications when teens discuss self-harm or suicidal intentions, with alerts sent via text, email or in-app …
OpenAI on Wednesday released the Codex Micro, a $230 miniature keyboard for monitoring and controlling Codex AI coding agents, marking the company's first consumer hardware device. Developed with peri…
A hack of Suno's source code reveals the AI music company trained its models on millions of songs scraped from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius and stock music libraries, 404 Media reported Wednesday. Th…
Apple released the public beta of iOS 27 on July 13, about a month after announcing the iPhone software at its Worldwide Developers Conference. After testing the betas, the software offers useful feat…
OpenAI's first consumer device will be a portable smart speaker without a screen, designed as a humanlike AI companion for the home, according to a Bloomberg report. The device, still in development, …
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday imposing a one-year moratorium on new building permits for hyperscale data centers, making New York the first state to freeze construction …
Hachette Book Group, Cengage, Elsevier and author Scott Turow filed a lawsuit against Google LLC on July 10, alleging the company violated copyright law by using their copyrighted works to train its G…
CNET tested several subscription-free smart home devices suitable for college dorms, including the Lepro A1 table lamp, Google Home speaker, Tapo smart surge protector, and Amazon Echo Spot. The Lepro…
Spotify is rolling out a new AI assistant feature, 'Talk to Spotify,' to beta users that allows contextual questions about music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The feature, available to eligible Premium u…
A college student's guide to tested smart devices for dorm rooms includes the Lepro A1 Table Lamp, which uses AI prompts to generate light schemes, the Google Home Speaker with Gemini features for voi…
Waze announced a batch of updates this week, including a 'less chatty' mode, personalized navigation, and Gemini-powered voice search and reporting, all underpinned by Google's Gemini AI. The updates …
Apple is accelerating its chip release roadmap, skipping high-end M6 variants to reach the M7 generation faster, driven by AI competition from Nvidia and others, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. …