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You may have forgotten the timeline, but Google was pushing to force all off of Google Assistant and onto Gemini by the end of this year. Like with all things AI, the timing hasn’t quite worked out and they are instead “adjusting” that previous timeline to a later date within 2026. Google made the short … Continued Read the original post: Google Decides That Google Assistant Can Stick Around a... Read more ›
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The director of 'The Shawshank Redemption,' 'The Green Mile,' and 'The Mist' talks about the Stephen King project that got away. Read more ›
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The Kennedy Center added Donald Trump's name to its facade on Friday. Here's a look back at how it came to be and how it has changed under Trump. Read more ›
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Behold Mark Zuckerberg: man of principle. Witness the Meta CEO's dedication to the most high-minded of causes: "currying favor with whoever's in charge." In 2013, when Barack Obama was president, Zuckerberg co-founded FWD.us, a pro-immigration advocacy group. For years, he vocally supported providing paths to citizenship for "the most talented and hardest-working people, no matter where they were born." Now, in 2025, with Donald Trump back in power and pushing... Read more ›
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ChatGPT Images is a big step forward for OpenAI. Here's how the new model fared against the old one and competitors like Google. Read more ›
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Not even the strongest microbes can survive volcanic eruptions, but they are capable of returning surprisingly quickly, according to a new study. Read more ›
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The Justice Department almost never discloses information it collected on a criminal suspect outside of a criminal judicial proceeding, and for very good reasons. Revealing such information can endanger victims or other witnesses. And it denies due process to individuals who may be innocent — and who will never receive a trial — even though […] Read more ›
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Samsung has announced its own SOCAMM2 LPDDR5-based memory module designed specifically for AI data center platforms, pitching it as as a way to bring the power efficiency and bandwidth advantages of LPDDR5X into servers. Read more ›
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Taiwan's government is considering imposing N+2 export rule on TSMC's advanced process technologies, which would make it significantly harder for the foundry to develop overseas. Read more ›
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Today's the deadline for the Justice Department to release its files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected financier and pedophile. Read more ›
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Target's app and website have been affected by an outage that is disrupting the company's ability to fulfill online orders. Read more ›
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Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week, except next week, when we take a break until the new year. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the meantime, we're wondering who's actually behind the mobile […] Read more ›
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Nike was once a status symbol among Chinese consumers, but increasingly, analysts say it is losing its cultural relevance. Read more ›
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said investing in AI has been "well worth it and then some" as it's yielded "hundreds of millions of dollars of benefit." Read more ›
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A source in the Security Service of Ukraine told Business Insider that the attack was carried out more than 1,240 miles away. Read more ›
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Some members are pushing for a vote on a stock ban, and they're confident the bill will pass if it makes it to the floor. Read more ›
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This year’s bumper crop looks at salsa, salads, drinking culture, home baking, and Italian cuisine. Read more ›
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This week, we tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €1.3 billion and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.In addition to this week's top fi... Read more ›
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LG has clarified how Microsoft Copilot appears on its webOS smart TVs following recent coverage that described the feature as a non-removable app bundled into the operating system. Read more ›
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Over the past this year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ways to get useful responses out of it, one employee said. But even as ChatGPT attracted more users this year,... Read more ›
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The iPhone family is growing again. Over the next two years, Apple is planning a major expansion of its smartphone product line that could see it selling at least seven new models of its flagship device by fall 2027, up from five iPhone models today, according to multiple people working directly on the products at both Apple and its suppliers. The move will see Apple—which is often criticized for releasing... Read more ›
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Businesses such as IBM and Salesforce have long used chatbots to greet their website visitors and offer them assistance with getting more information about their products. In recent years, generative AI has livened up these chatbots so they are no longer confined to a small set of canned responses. But some technology providers are having trouble keeping these AI chatbots from going off-topic. For instance, earlier this month, Sierra, a... Read more ›
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Amazon reorganized its AI development team, it said on Wednesday, by expanding it to also include quantum computing and silicon development, which includes development of Trainium chips. Those organizations were previously part of Amazon Web Services. Amazon’s AI team, which developed its Nova ... Read more ›
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A spike of investor interest in the data center sector has prompted one major data center developer, Rowan Digital Infrastructure, to consider whether this is a good time to raise fresh capital or possibly even sell, say people familiar with the company’s thinking. If it were to raise money or sell, it would likely be valued at more than $10 billion, including its debt, the people said. Potential buyers include... Read more ›
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We’re heading into our last full working week of the year, so the news flow is likely to start quieting down. (Be on the lookout for ServiceNow’s next big acquisition, however). One story that’s likely to chug along through the holidays is the battle between Netflix and the Ellison family’s Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros. Discovery. There’s sure to be fireworks this week, if for no other reason than the... Read more ›
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OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information from medical journals and other trusted sources, is raising $250 million in equity financing that will value the three-year-old startup at $12 billion after the investment, doubling its last private valuation from a financing announced just two months ago, according to a person involved in the deal. If the deal closes, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company will become one... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the AI lab co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is planning to release its own in-house models next year, co-founder and Chief Scientist John Schulman said on a podcast. So far, Thinking Machines has released Tinker, an application programming ... Read more ›
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Brett Adcock, the CEO of robotics startup Figure AI, has started a new AI lab called Hark, which will be funded by $100 million of his personal capital, according to a copy of a memo Adcock sent to Figure employees and investors on Thursday seen by The Information. The AI lab will be focused on ... Read more ›
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Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud deals that customers such as OpenAI have struck with Oracle. The filing showed that as of ... Read more ›
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