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YouTube announced Thursday it is adding new podcast features for Premium users, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an "Auto speed" setting that adjusts playback based on speech patterns, and an on-the-go listen…
Microsoft will release a new AI coding model next week, aligning with its Build 2026 developer conference scheduled for June 2-3. The announcement follows the company's aggressive iteration on developer tools, including …
Tether has launched a cross-platform LoRA fine-tuning framework for Microsoft's Bitnet LLM, enabling billion-parameter AI training and inference on consumer-grade devices like smartphones and personal computers. The fram…
Humans are valuable regardless of their output quality compared to AI, according to a new argument challenging the common practice of justifying human worth based on a narrowing capability gap with machines. The reasonin…
Enterprise AI rollouts have been temporarily halted as executives at Fidelity Investments and EY discovered that generative AI tools were surfacing vast amounts of long-forgotten, unsecured data from SharePoint sites and…
CNN filed a lawsuit against Perplexity in a New York court Thursday, alleging the startup’s AI tools generate “verbatim” copies of its articles and provide users with content locked behind CNN’s subscription paywall. The…
XAI released Grok Build 0.1, a new coding model priced at $1 per 1M input tokens and $2 per 1M output tokens with a 256K context window. The model planned and built a working webhook delivery service in TypeScript, Bun, …
AI is augmenting rather than replacing human workers in B2B customer support, according to data from Pylon, the agentic support platform. The technology resolves only about 15% of B2B support tickets end-to-end, compared…
San Francisco-based Reactor, co-founded by former Apple Vision Pro technical leads Alberto Taiuti and Bryce Schmidtchen, has raised $59 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation f…
QEMU, the processor emulator critical to the Linux virtualization stack, is revising its policy to allow some AI and LLM-generated contributions after previously banning them outright. Red Hat virtualization engineer Pao…
A pilot study of philosophy undergraduates found that 79.1% of students recognized the importance of assigned readings but cited limited time (65.7%) and intellectual difficulty (33.3%) as barriers, with 76.2% expressing…
Amazon MGM Studios unveiled its first three AI-generated animated projects at the "AI on the Lot" conference on Wednesday, including "Cupcake & Friends" from BuzzFeed Studios, "Love, Diana Music Hunters" from former Nick…
Taylor Swift's management company, TAS Rights Management, filed three trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering two short audio clips of her voice and an image of her onstage. The filings,…
Loryn Brantz, creator of The Good Advice Cupcake, publicly condemned BuzzFeed and Amazon after learning her character would be adapted into an AI-assisted animated series using Amazon's Project Nara platform, calling the…
In May, Mark's blog examined dependence under conditions of recalcitrance, arguing that the central question is not whether dependence is good or bad but how to form better dependencies when tools, institutions, and real…
Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude model family, opened a new office in Milan, marking its sixth European location in less than a year. The expansion follows a more than 9x year-over-year increase in the …
CNN sued AI company Perplexity on Thursday, alleging it engaged in "massive copyright infringement" by scraping more than 17,000 of the network's stories, photos, and videos without permission to train its products. The …
Morgan Stanley has doubled its forecast for AI-driven job losses in European banking, now projecting that up to 20% of the sector's workforce — roughly 400,000 roles — could be eliminated by 2030 as lenders deploy genera…
A ZDNET reporter switched from Microsoft Copilot to Anthropic's Claude AI for use in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, citing Claude's ability to work across multiple applications simultaneously. The reporter found that Claud…
A developer has built a privacy-first Tampermonkey userscript called ChatGPT Long Conversation Helper that adds collapse and expand controls for individual messages in long ChatGPT conversations. The tool, available on G…