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Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a small startup working on artificial intelligence capable of understanding emotion and mimicking it in audio form, according to a person with direct knowledge.
The acquisition comes as Meta continues to overhaul its efforts in AI, after stumbles earlier this year. In June, the social media giant hired Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang as its chief AI officer and agreed to invest $14.3 billion in the data-labeling company. Meta also hired former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman an
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more âș
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more âș
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For decades, hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease has been treated with therapies that often fall short. Now, a new biotech startup, R1 Therapeutics, is aiming to change that with fresh funding and a different approach. The company has launched from ... Read more âș
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Living in London, you feel the tremors of a global energy crisis through every headline and market update before the full picture emerges. The city â one of the worldâs great financial centres â is a real-time barometer of whatâs moving through the worldâs economic arteries, and what isnât. Right now, what isnât moving is ... Read more Read more âș
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Garmin continues to move from training tool to 'proper' smartwatch with a new WhatsApp integration. Read more âș
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Thought the Galaxy S26 phones were disappointing this year? The RAM crisis makes me worry about the Z Flip 8 too. Read more âș
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Last year, the PlayStation Portal was graced with its biggest update since the peripheral's 2023 launch. This came with a fair few advantages, not least the ability to play PS5 exclusives without actually having a PS5. As as result of this updates, Takuro Fushimi, senior manager of product management at Sony, noted that "the PlayStation portal has now become the most widely used device for PlayStation 5 Remote Play, surpassing... Read more âș
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Dell, HP and Lenovo models all offer double the memory and storage - and offer far greater value for money. Read more âș
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Some cars benefit from third-party speakers and other upgrades, but these premium vehicles will rival top-tier hi-fi setups straight from the dealer. Read more âș
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Ricoh's first black and white-only compact, the GR IV Monochrome, is giving Ricoh a welcome headache, with demand outstripping supply. Read more âș
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Apple's iPhone 19e could come with an LTPO OLED display that would bring 120Hz ProMotion technology to its most affordable iPhone for the first time, based on a new report out of Asia. According to ZDNet Korea, the fourth-generation model in Apple's entry-level e-series â expected to arrive in early 2028 â could adopt a low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) panel, making the display technically capable of dynamically adjusting its refresh... Read more âș
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Hotel demand across Asia is accelerating, and while China is still struggling to bounce back, in part due to policies inhibiting group travel, operators are cautiously optimistic that it will take a U-shaped rebound. Read more âș
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Philips has unveiled three new mid-range soundbars, one of which features 4K 120Hz passthrough that'll be useful for gamers Read more âș
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Sui (SUI) joined Uniswap (UNI) as an underperformer, declining 4% from Monday. Read more âș
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A software upgrade allowed CryoSat to monitor disturbances caused by a geomagnetic storm. Read more âș
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During our trip to Mexico City, we did a lot of things right, like using public transportation. However, we also made a few mistakes along the way. Read more âș
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Samsung is set to discontinue the Galaxy Z TriFold globally after just three months on sale (via Bloomberg). The company will start by ceasing sales of the device in Korea, where it has been on sale since December. Samsung plans to discontinue the device in the United States once it clears its inventory. Samsung's website already lists the TriFold as "sold out," but customers are still able to buy the... Read more âș
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Video StoreAge is offering indie films on USB drives, letting you own movies permanently instead of relying on streaming platforms where titles can disappear. Read more âș
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Seneca's drones carry foam, fly at night, and don't need an on-site pilot. Read more âș
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Meta Platformsâ oversight board criticized the companyâs handling of AI-generated content, saying it was âneither robust nor comprehensive enoughâ. The independent body, which reviews Metaâs content decisions, made its comments after an investigation into an AI-generated video that circulated on ... Read more âș
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Amazon began a corporate bond sale aimed at raising as much as $42 billion, Bloomberg reported, the latest sign of how tech giants are borrowing money to fund their AI expansion. Amazon had filed paperwork a few weeks ago allowing it to quickly sell bonds. The new bond offering follows one last ... Read more âș
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OpenAI and Anthropic have raised tens of billions of dollars on the promise of artificial intelligence that can make new discoveries in fields like medicine, biology and physics. And yet, weâre nowhere close to that. (You might recall this awkward moment from last fall when a ChatGPT-generated math âdiscoveryâ was debunked.) The reason, according to Markus Buehler, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering professor, is simple: large language models underpinning... Read more âș
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Nvidia and Thinking Machines Lab, the model developer co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday to deploy at least one gigawatt of servers powered by Nvidiaâs forthcoming Vera Rubin chips, according to a blog post. The ... Read more âș
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Microsoft is facing a new cluster of antitrust probes over whether it has illegally monopolized the cloud and software markets. As it gears up for battle, itâs been reorganizing the top ranks of its legal and policy department. Over the past year, Microsoft has shifted at least four executives into new roles within the legal teams under President Brad Smith that handle its response to antitrust regulations. Our new org... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms hired the creators of Moltbook, a social network designed for AI agents, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, who will join its AI division, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), the company said. Meta also bought Moltbook itself. Meta said it hopes the integration of the Moltbook team into ... Read more âș
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Google is providing its Gemini âAgent Designerâ to the Department of Defense for unclassified work, Google announced on Tuesday. The feature, which will be part of the Pentagonâs AI platform GenAI.mil, will allow DOD employees to create AI agents to automate administrative tasks like drafting ... Read more âș
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A judge ordered Perplexity to temporarily stop accessing Amazonâs website, a victory in the e-commerce giantâs lawsuit against the AI search startup. Amazon sued Perplexity in November, arguing Perplexity was fraudulently accessing its site through its AI browser Comet in order to make purchases ... Read more âș
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Microsoft appears to be betting that its tried-and-true subscription pricing model for software is here to stay, even in the era of AI agents that run 24/7, and that customers will be OK with ever-higher prices.Microsoft on Monday announced a new AI subscription bundle that combines Office 365 and with 365 Copilot, a suite of AI tools for automating tasks in Office apps, for business customers for the first time.... Read more âș
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Salesforce plans to sell between $20 billion and $25 billion in bonds as soon as this week, to help fund its recently-announced $50 billion stock buyback, Bloomberg reported. The bond offering, coming as Amazon was also in the market trying to raise twice as much, shows how a flood of tech ... Read more âș
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