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AI firms are buying old books in bulk, cutting them apart, and scanning them to create chatbot training data.

Orchid's AI assistant sparked backlash after a viral ad showed it managing a couple's forgotten anniversary.

Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party

Tech stocks that benefitted from the AI boom are currently plumetting.

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Super apps are the latest AI buzzword. What are these super apps, and why are Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic investing in them?

Tinder paused its Photo Enhanced tool after complaints that it altered their appearance.

It's not your imagination. Windows installation files have been creeping up in size. It might even be fair to call them bloated. And you'll never guess where the problem comes from.

The same autonomous OpenAI agent that escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face was also busy hacking other AI systems. Lucky us.

Almost all field service organizations use AI, and revenue gains in key areas offer insights for professionals in other business functions.

AI image generation comes to Google Earth as Google adds Nano Banana to its mapping platform.

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Can Google Earth's new AI accurately redesign homes, recreate history, and imagine the future? I tested Nano Banana across several locations, and the results ranged from useful to gloriously absurd.

New button beside the ribbon promises consistency – and more questions for admins

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Ditto AI is an AI matchmaker for college students, and its founders think it's the next big thing.

If your AI goes rogue, better have a good lawyer

But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple

It marks a change of tone for his administration, which has taken a more hands-off approach to the technology.

Capex spending? What? Me worry?

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the firm intends to sell its AI tools to other companies for the first time.

Get a lifetime license for Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $29.97 through Aug. 9, with AI-assisted coding, cross-platform tools, and real-time collaboration.

The program, ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, will start with 10,000 participants this summer.

Robots apparently don't need to be bipedal to be caught up in the FCC's new foreign-made robot ban.

Waymo paused highway operations in May after several robotaxis drove into sections that were closed for construction.

New details from OpenAI reveal its rogue AI agent breached more accounts and used more third-party infrastructure than initially disclosed.

Meanwhile, the other state-backed foundry, Intel, wraps up RAMP-C defense test chip program

Moving your data to Claude is easier than you might think. This step-by-step guide will get you switched over right away.

Hint is an app that uses AI to help you keep your house in order, and Martha Stewart co-founded it.

Tens of thousands of AI-generated songs are uploaded to music streaming platforms every day.

Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation

The Ecovacs Goat 01000 robot lawn mower is on sale at Amazon for $999, down from the normal price of $1,499.99. That's a 33% discount.

AIStor keeps context, files, and secrets under customer control so interrupted jobs can pick up where they left off

As of July 29, save 47% on the Roborock Qrevo CurvX robot vacuum and mop.

It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.

Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.

Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 2028

Pressing the Copilot key on your laptop keyboard launches Copilot. But whether or not you use Microsoft's AI, you can remap the key to trigger a different feature.

Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans