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President Trump on Monday revoked dozens of executive orders issued by the Biden administration including a key directive related to artificial intelligence. Biden’s executive order on AI was issued in October 2023 and required companies developing advanced AI models to share information with ...
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Samsung’s focus is all on Multimodality and Agentic AI for the Galaxy S25 series — essentially, turning Galaxy AI conversational, as close to a human companion as technology would allow today Read more ›
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The guy who brought you a bunch of dumb online videos wants to buy the site that distributes dumb online videos. Read more ›
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Apple launched the original Mac mini 20 years ago today, kickstarting a trend of small but powerful computers. The Mac mini was originally designed as a gateway for users to enter the Apple ecosystem without the expense associated with the company's higher-end offerings of the time, such as the Power Mac G5 and iMac G5, and costly peripherals. Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs described the Mac mini as "the most affordable... Read more ›
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AI phrenology might be bad, say Ivy League economics professors in 61-page paper about how AI phrenology is accurate. Read more ›
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The communications pause could be an early sign of things to come under a renewed Trump White House. Read more ›
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Two and a half years after The Witcher 4's announcement, CD Projekt finally gave it the big reveal treatment late in 2024, confirming Ciri to be the focus this time around. And now Doug Cockle - voice of former series protagonist Geralt of Rivia - has had his say, calling the switch to a new main character, a "really, really interesting move for all kinds of reasons". Read more Read more ›
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Trump promised during his campaign that upon his return to the White House, he would swiftly end Russia's brutal invasion in Ukraine. Read more ›
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From today, some readers will be asked to create a free account to access our content. Read more ›
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Government contractors told BI they feel secure in their jobs amid uncertainties related to federal funding and the DOGE commission. Read more ›
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The cast and crew of Section 31 tell io9 why stories about the controversial Star Trek organization are necessary for the franchise's utopian vision. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump backs Project Stargate, as China's DeepSeek launches rival AI models, intensifying the US-China AI race. Read more ›
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These Hollywood stars have opened up about gender identity. Some have come out as nonbinary or fluid, while others prefer to ditch the labels. Read more ›
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Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images Dozens of popular subreddits are banning links to X after Elon Musk made a gesture that historians and human rights groups have described as a Nazi salute. Communities that have instituted a ban on links to X include r/formula1, r/military, r/nursing, r/TwoXChromosomes, and r/nintendo. The shift is spreading across Reddit after neo-Nazis celebrated Musk’s speech at a rally on Monday for Donald Trump’s... Read more ›
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Nintendo has been nominated at this year's GLAAD award for trans representation in last year's Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake on Switch. Read more Read more ›
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Nvidia showed off a quad-slot precursor to the RTX 5090 Founders Edition in a new video, confirming the company was indeed experimenting with a quadruple PCIe slot Founders Edition cooler. Read more ›
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Gun violence prevention advocates admonish Trump administration decision to shutter the website, accusing him of siding with gun lobbyists. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump's executive order on gender and sex may have inadvertently declared that everyone is female. Read more ›
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Benedict Cumberbatch revealed that the Sorcerer Supreme is almost definitely not in for the the next big Marvel team-up film. Read more ›
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Amazon is laying off about 200 employees in its North America stores division, the company said Thursday. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the cuts to the division, which includes a wide variety of teams working on everything from fashion and fitness products to private brands under senior vice ... Read more ›
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A pending ban of TikTok in the U.S. is prompting a flood of TikTok users to try out Chinese social media app RedNote. Chinese regulators aren’t happy. The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s Internet watchdog, is concerned that English-language content showing up on RedNote may contain politically sensitive posts that aren’t otherwise allowed on Chinese social media, according to three people with knowledge of the communications between Chinese officials... Read more ›
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As I wrote last month, there’s been a flurry of excitement about applying generative artificial intelligence techniques to robotics, a field that’s generated much hope and plenty of disappointment over the last two decades. Like chatbot makers, robotics companies have relied on humans to manually label data, for example identifying packages in images to train robots to sort boxes. Many have used Scale AI, the data-labelling startup valued at $14... Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump on Friday evening announced on social media the launch of his “official” meme token, a solana-based asset whose price jumped to $26 per token within a day, giving it a market value of $5 billion on paper. The token, called $TRUMP, is intended to be an expression ... Read more ›
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Shield AI, a maker of drones and software whose customers include the Ukrainian and U.S. governments, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from investors including Palantir and Lockheed Martin, three people familiar with the matter said. The round would likely value the San Diego-based startup at about $5 billion, before the investment, roughly double its valuation from its last funding round in 2023, the people said. Read more ›
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It’s not just Meta Platforms, Snap and Google’s YouTube that stand to benefit if TikTok shutters in the U.S. as a result of Friday’s Supreme Court decision upholding the ban-or-sell law against the Chinese-owned app. Several small social and video apps, including Flip, Clapper and Whatnot, could also come out ahead. Meanwhile, losers include logistics startups which work with TikTok Shop sellers, such as ShipBob and ShipHero, along with advertisers... Read more ›
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For the last two years, enterprise software companies have been trying to convince customers to fork over more money for new artificial intelligence features, such as generating notes from conference calls and ginning up images for slide presentations.Now, the software firms are no longer asking. Google said Wednesday it would automatically include generative AI features with Workspace productivity apps like Gmail, and charge basic tier customers an additional $2 per... Read more ›
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President Trump on Monday revoked dozens of executive orders issued by the Biden administration including a key directive related to artificial intelligence. Biden’s executive order on AI was issued in October 2023 and required companies developing advanced AI models to share information with ... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump is preparing to announce that OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle are planning a joint venture to invest in building data centers for artificial intelligence in the U.S., according to a CBS News report. The report said Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle ... Read more ›
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U.S. authorities took a key step on Friday toward heavily restricting a trade rule used by e-commerce companies like Temu, Amazon and Shein to import products into the U.S. from China without paying tariffs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection proposed rules on Friday that would bar companies ... Read more ›
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