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AI filmmakers are under fire over their sudden Higgsfield promotions: Here's why

AI filmmakers are under fire over their sudden Higgsfield promotions: Here's why

Filmmaking creators Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have spent the past few days learning what happens when an audience suspects...

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2,056 robots are taking over Beijing for world robot games

2,056 robots are taking over Beijing for world robot games

The second World Humanoid Robot Games opens this weekend in Beijing, drawing tech companies and university teams from around the world to test their...

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Here’s how ChatGPT can read and send your Apple messages

Here’s how ChatGPT can read and send your Apple messages

OpenAI has launched a plugin that lets ChatGPT read, search, draft and send messages through Apple's own Messages app on Mac, and as Bloomberg...

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German group files criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses

German group files criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses

German digital rights organisation HateAid has filed a criminal complaint against Meta, Ray-Ban, Oakley and four German retailers, seeking a ban on...

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YouTube Premium price hike hits again just months later

YouTube Premium price hike hits again just months later

YouTube Premium appears to be getting more expensive again, just months after its last round of increases. Subscribers in several countries are...

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Apple Smart Glasses: What we know so far

Apple Smart Glasses: What we know so far

Apple's next wearable won't look anything like the Vision Pro. According to mounting reports, the company is developing a pair of AI-powered...

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Senators give TikTok deadline over 'depraved' safety test

Senators give TikTok deadline over 'depraved' safety test

Two senators have given TikTok until September 1 to explain an internal experiment that kept a safety feature away from 15 million US users, including...

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August 2026 lunar eclipse: When and where to see it

August 2026 lunar eclipse: When and where to see it

One week from now, Earth's shadow will swallow 96% of the moon's visible face, leaving just a thin sliver exposed to direct sunlight. The...

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Meta AI Mac app adds dictation, screen context tools

Meta AI Mac app adds dictation, screen context tools

Meta has released a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, and its headline feature isn't chat; it's dictation that follows you into whatever app...

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Apple files 32-page rebuttal in OpenAI trade secrets case

Apple files 32-page rebuttal in OpenAI trade secrets case

Apple isn't backing down. In a filing submitted Wednesday, the company urged a federal judge to reject OpenAI's motion to dismiss its trade...

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GTA 6 leak reveals new feature fans have never seen before

GTA 6 leak reveals new feature fans have never seen before

Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay clips have surfaced online showing something the franchise has never had before: a fuel gauge players actually need to...

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Australia passes law taxing big tech over news payments

Australia passes law taxing big tech over news payments

Australia's parliament passed legislation on Thursday that puts a price on ignoring local journalism. Under the new News Bargaining Incentive,...

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Gboard emoji size setting adds 7 new options in beta

Gboard emoji size setting adds 7 new options in beta

Google is testing a small but overdue fix for anyone who's ever wished their keyboard's emoji tray behaved differently.  A new "Emoji...

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ChatGPT's new teen mode refuses to do your homework

ChatGPT's new teen mode refuses to do your homework

OpenAI's newest ChatGPT feature is built around an unusual goal: getting teenagers to complain about it. ChatGPT for Teens, which launched...

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Jensen Huang is using X to teach, not just promote Nvidia

Jensen Huang is using X to teach, not just promote Nvidia

A month into his time on X, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has settled into a distinct role among tech's most visible executives: the explainer. While...

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TikTok may soon let users send money in DMs

TikTok may soon let users send money in DMs

TikTok may soon let users send each other money without leaving a conversation. Bloomberg reports that code buried in TikTok's US iOS app points...

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Telegram applies for its own '.gram' web domain

Telegram applies for its own '.gram' web domain

Telegram has formally applied to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for a ".gram" top-level domain, a move that...

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Is synthetic data sending AI in wrong direction?

Is synthetic data sending AI in wrong direction?

Rich Sutton spent decades helping build the reinforcement learning foundations behind today's AI systems. Now the Canadian computer scientist...

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Google ties Pixel 11 launch to five of Europe's biggest football clubs

Google ties Pixel 11 launch to five of Europe's biggest football clubs

Google is expanding its foothold in European football, signing long-term Pixel and Gemini partnerships with Arsenal, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München,...

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Samsung’s One UI 9.5 leak reveals big iPhone-like feature

Samsung’s One UI 9.5 leak reveals big iPhone-like feature

Samsung is already testing One UI 9.5 internally on the Galaxy S26 series, even though most owners are still waiting for the stable release of One UI...

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Apple to overhaul app tracking consent rules in Germany

Apple to overhaul app tracking consent rules in Germany

Apple will have to redesign how it asks iPhone and iPad users for permission to track their data after Germany's Federal Cartel Office closed a...

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Nvidia's $500bn Wall Street deal signals AI boom strain

Nvidia's $500bn Wall Street deal signals AI boom strain

Nvidia has recruited six of Wall Street's largest asset managers to raise more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure, an arrangement built to...

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Billionaire predicts humans commuting to moon by 2030s

Billionaire predicts humans commuting to moon by 2030s

Job postings from the moon may sound like science fiction, but Voyager Technologies founder and CEO Dylan Taylor says they're closer than most...

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Australia announces single opt-out register for gambling ads

Australia announces single opt-out register for gambling ads

Australians struggling to escape gambling advertising online may soon have one place to turn instead of dozens. The federal government has proposed a...

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'Creep glasses’ videos keep surviving Meta’s crackdown

'Creep glasses’ videos keep surviving Meta’s crackdown

In mid-July, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the platform would remove harassing "pickup line" videos filmed using Meta's AI glasses,...

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Microsoft to retire SMS login as AI phishing surges

Microsoft to retire SMS login as AI phishing surges

Microsoft has told IT administrators to move off SMS and voice-based authentication, warning that AI has made phishing attacks against these methods...

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Why Wikipedia still won't let AI write articles, says CEO Jimmy Wales

Why Wikipedia still won't let AI write articles, says CEO Jimmy Wales

Nearly 25 years after launching Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales remains unmoved by the pressure to let artificial intelligence write the encyclopedia's...

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Real problem with France's social media ban: Explained

Real problem with France's social media ban: Explained

France's Constitutional Council didn't strike down the principle of banning under-15s from social media on Friday. It struck down the...

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ESA satellite captures 2026 eclipse shadow from space

ESA satellite captures 2026 eclipse shadow from space

The European Space Agency has released a striking video showing the Moon's shadow racing across Europe during the total solar eclipse of 12...

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1.6m customer records exposed in RingCentral data leak

1.6m customer records exposed in RingCentral data leak

RingCentral, a company that sells business phone systems, was breached by a phone call. The extortion group ShinyHunters says it got in by voice...

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Ex-Microsoft dev revives live tiles for new Outlook rival

Ex-Microsoft dev revives live tiles for new Outlook rival

Live Tiles disappeared from Windows years ago, but a former Microsoft engineer is bringing the concept back to life in a new email client. Jeff Fritz,...

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X shows its hand on how posts get ranked

X shows its hand on how posts get ranked

Not every action on X carries the same weight with its recommendation system. The company released the source code behind its "For You"...

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Goldman Sachs joins talks on Nvidia's $500B AI deal

Goldman Sachs joins talks on Nvidia's $500B AI deal

Goldman Sachs is in talks with a broad range of potential investors about joining Nvidia's $500 billion AI financing initiative, after drawing on...

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Google Meet can now take notes at in-person meetings

Google Meet can now take notes at in-person meetings

Google Meet's AI notetaking tool is stepping away from the screen. The "Take notes for me" feature, previously limited to virtual...

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French tax data stolen in cyberattack, ministry says

French tax data stolen in cyberattack, ministry says

France's finance ministry has confirmed that data belonging to both individual and professional taxpayers was stolen in a cyberattack on the...

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Apple proposes 15% App Store fee, seeks epic talks

Apple proposes 15% App Store fee, seeks epic talks

Apple is making two moves at once in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games: proposing a new commission structure for purchases made outside...

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Gemini adds 13 new apps to expand its AI integrations

Gemini adds 13 new apps to expand its AI integrations

Google is expanding what its Gemini AI assistant can do outside Google's own ecosystem, with 13 new connected apps set to roll out over the next...

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DeepSeek officially launches V4 Pro as China's AI race heats up

DeepSeek officially launches V4 Pro as China's AI race heats up

DeepSeek has formally released its V4 Pro model, ending a nearly four-month preview period and marking a pivotal moment for a company trying to...

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Courts just ruled your ChatGPT chats are protected

Courts just ruled your ChatGPT chats are protected

Litigators now face a question that didn't exist five years ago: are the prompts a party types into ChatGPT while building a case discoverable by...

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NASA, SpaceX prepare Roman telescope for August 30 liftoff

NASA, SpaceX prepare Roman telescope for August 30 liftoff

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has moved into one of the most consequential phases of its journey to space, with engineers now bolting...

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Meta to face 29 states in $1.4tn youth safety trial

Meta to face 29 states in $1.4tn youth safety trial

Mark Zuckerberg is due in an Oakland courtroom this week to defend claims that Meta built Facebook and Instagram to hook children. Jury selection...

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Australia rewrites news law to make Big Tech pay more media outlets

Australia rewrites news law to make Big Tech pay more media outlets

Australia is widening the net on its new bargaining law before it's even reached parliament. A revamped version of the legislation, to be...

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Parents face screen time reset as the school year begins

Parents face screen time reset as the school year begins

A study of 822 carers has found that stressed-out parents are quietly abandoning their household screen time rules, and researchers say the habits...

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Google Photos' new trick turns snaps into film frames

Google Photos' new trick turns snaps into film frames

Google Photos wants your camera roll to look like it came off a roll of actual film. The app is rolling out a new feature called Moods, which applies...

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South Korea's next big bet: Moon, quantum computers, brain implants

South Korea's next big bet: Moon, quantum computers, brain implants

South Korea wants to reach the moon before it turns 90 as an independent state and build a domestic quantum computer, next-generation nuclear reactors...

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Chinese startup says its brain implant takes just 10 minutes

Chinese startup says its brain implant takes just 10 minutes

Getting a brain implant has always meant opening the skull. A Shanghai-based startup says it has found a way around that, threading its device through...

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Google Play Store tests new ‘Expand Everything’ feature

Google Play Store tests new ‘Expand Everything’ feature

Google is quietly testing a new way to browse the Play Store, and it starts with how search results look. The company has begun rolling out...

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Can a privacy phone feature get you federally charged?

A privacy feature built to protect phone owners from coercion has landed an Atlanta man with a federal indictment in what appears to be the first...

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Is GTA 6 Online coming? Here’s Take-Two’s latest hint

Take-Two still hasn't confirmed GTA 6 Online exists, but CEO Strauss Zelnick's choice of words during Friday's earnings call did most...

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Banks' AI race risks dangerous dependence on Big Tech, rating agency warns

Banks racing to adopt AI could end up dangerously dependent on a small handful of Silicon Valley firms, according to a new Moody's report that...

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