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Mired in controversy and legal woes over concerns about its chatbots' interactions with users, particularly teens, Character.AI seems to be playing it safer with a new "Books" mode. The new format lets users step inside familiar worlds for a more structured roleplaying experience, one the company hopes will broaden perceptions of what AI roleplay can […]
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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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 ›
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carLG Display’s Concept Car demo at SID Display Week 2026 began on the outside, where the 29-inch Outdoor LTPS LCD demonstrated how displays could become part of a vehicle’s communication system, not just its infotainment setup. Positioned at the back of the concept car, the screen is designed for V2X (Vehicle-to-everything) communication between the vehicle and its surroundings, potentially showing signals or information to pedestrians, nearby drivers, or other road... Read more ›
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The new 'dreaming' feature doesn't mean Claude is sleeping on the job. Quite the opposite. Read more ›
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Samsung’s idea could let one key do two jobs, depending on whether your hand is resting on the laptop or hovering above it. Read more ›
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White House digital-assets adviser Patrick Witt cited a recent exploit involving assets held by the U.S. Marshals as proof federal crypto holdings need safeguarding. Read more ›
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Elon Musk once offered Sam Altman a seat on Tesla’s board of directors as part of discussions about OpenAI possibly joining Musk’s electric vehicle company, a Musk ally testified on Wednesday. Shivon Zilis, who has worked for several of Musk’s ventures and has four children with the tech tycoon, ... Read more ›
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Chinese researchers used supercomputers to model Yellowstone, revealing that tectonic forces shaped magma pathways and sparking ambitions for full planetary simulation systems. Read more ›
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To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure. Read more ›
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Regulators took issue with the amount of personal data the company collected and its approach to consent. Read more ›
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Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: "Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology […] Read more ›
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Following the first Android 17 QPR1 Beta release a couple of weeks ago, Google is already back to give us Android 17 QPR2 Beta 2. There must have been enough critical bugs that they couldn’t wait until Google I/O in a couple of weeks. This fresh update is available now as CP31.260423.012.A1 for all supported... Read the original post: Android 17 QPR1 Beta 2 Releases for Pixel Phones Read more ›
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The executive director of the President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets said the Senate Banking Committee hearing will happen this month on market structure. bill. Read more ›
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While using batteries properly is of the utmost importance for safety, many people may not be as fastidious about where they store those batteries. Read more ›
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Peak XV-backed quick commerce startup Apna Mart has reportedly laid off around 10% of its workforce as part of a… Read more ›
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Circle and Tether are going to make it harder for stablecoins to feel like money, said Ben O'Neill, head of money movement at Bridge. Read more ›
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The two companies are partnering to explore new AI-enabled gameplay experiences. Read more ›
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Snap’s revenue growth accelerated to 12% in the first quarter, lifted by strong growth in the social media firm’s small subscriptions business. Advertising, which contributes the bulk of Snap’s revenue, grew just 3%, a slower rate than the previous quarter. The anemic growth in advertising ... Read more ›
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At NACO Summit, Daniel Eberhard compares the future of Koho to Chinese “super apps.” Read more ›
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At NACO Summit, Daniel Eberhard compares the future of Koho to Chinese “super apps.” Read more ›
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Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about technology, politics, and technology learning how to politick. If you're not a subscriber but would like to support our work, please subscribe here. I promise that your money will not go toward paying for a drone-proof ballroom for The Verge staff, no matter how […] Read more ›
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About five hours into Elon Musk's testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: "I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life." Musk's direct testimony was an improvement over yesterday - even if his lawyer kept asking leading questions to cue him in how to answer. But that memory was […] Read more ›
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Sony has finally stepped in to clear up the growing confusion around a new DRM (Digital Rights Management) system on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles. Users reported that the system's latest updates seemingly introduced a requirement to go online once every 30 days to validate game licenses, but Sony now says this is false. […] Read more ›
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It's been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there's no group that has felt the pressure quite like Gen Z. Like with many tech trends before it, it's no surprise that young people are among the biggest adopters […] Read more ›
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First they came for the drones, and now the vlogging cameras. DJI's Osmo Pocket 4 is the first of its compact steadicams not to launch in the US, following a string of DJI drones also missing the US market. The good news for American buyers is that the Pocket 4 is mostly an evolutionary upgrade, […] Read more ›
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OpenAI is preparing to launch a new frontier cybersecurity model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. CEO Sam Altman said the model will not be available to the general public, but will be first rolled out to a select group of trusted "cyber defenders" in order for institutions to shore up their cyberdefenses. The limited rollout will take place "in […] Read more ›
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Meta is planning to pump billions more into AI investments this year, despite noting that millions of users have seemingly started to abandon its platforms. In an earning call on Wednesday, Meta reported that figures for "Family daily active people" - the term Meta has coined for all collective users of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or […] Read more ›
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The internet is full of copycat, stolen, reposted, and low-effort content - and Meta, at least publicly, has said it is working to cut off some of the reach. Beginning in 2024, the company has made incremental announcements saying it would begin limiting "unoriginal" content from being recommended on Instagram. It meant that if you […] Read more ›
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Dallas-based genetics and biotech startup Colossal has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from venture capitalists, the CIA, and Peter Thiel, among others. Its buzzy "de-extinction" projects aim to "bring back" lost animals like the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dire wolf - although it isn't creating copies of extinct creatures from ancient […] Read more ›
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Netflix is starting to roll out a big revamp of its mobile app, and a central feature is a new vertical video feed called "Clips" where you can scroll through clips of shows, movies, and other Netflix content. The idea of the Clips feed is that it can help you discover new things to watch […] Read more ›
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