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Airbnb plans AI-powered search and trip planning, CEO says
Airbnb is stepping up to build an AI-native app experience, making the app more than a search aggregator and turning it into an assistant for planning trips or hosting visitors.
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Are you ready for digital eternal life? Meta patents AI that can post after you die
If you ever thought that social media offers a “kind of” eternal life, you may be closer than you think, as Meta was granted a patent in late December for an artificial intelligence (AI) system that will simulate your activity after your passing, including posting and interacting with content.
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Tech CEO warns AI replaced him and is now coming after everyone else
While a CEO urges everyone to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools before it’s too late to catch up, leading researchers quit OpenAI and Anthropic, citing ethical concerns.
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What AGI? For Anthropic’s Claude, even running a vending machine is too tall an order
AI companies keep hyping up artificial general intelligence as a realistically attainable goal, but it turns out that even a task as seemingly simple as autonomously running a vending machine is too difficult, at least for Anthropic’s Claude.
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Zelensky receives first jointly produced attack drone in Germany
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has received the first attack drone produced by a German-Ukrainian joint venture ahead of the Munich Security Conference.
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AI in Lucy Letby documentary: slop or preservation of authenticity?
The Investigation of Lucy Letby isn’t the first documentary to use deepfakes to protect vulnerable identities. Filmmakers say such digital...
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Police spend $85,500 to access AI platform that can geolocate photos
Emails have revealed how law enforcement agencies spent $85,500 on a platform that can provide location information in seconds after analyzing its background.
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OpenAI alleges China's DeepSeek trains models by copying US technology
OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is targeting the ChatGPT maker and the nation's leading AI companies to replicate models and use them for its own training, a memo seen by Reuters showed.
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Hackers haven’t replaced humans with AI yet, but they’re certainly trying
Cybercriminals and state-sponsored hacking groups are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out cyberattacks or phishing campaigns.
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The industry that broke our attention span now wants to fix it
The tech industry has spent more than a decade perfecting a single skill: keeping humans looking at screens.
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Anthropic’s scientist quits saying “world is in peril,” will write poetry instead
The artificial intelligence (AI) industry has been hit with multiple high-profile departures, with resigning researchers voicing concerns about ads in AI and pressure to set aside “what matters the most.”
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“Novelist” brags she can generate a new book in 45 minutes but hides behind 21 pen names
A woman “novelist” is boasting of her ability to produce hundreds of romance novels with the help of AI and claiming that average human writers have no chance to keep up in modern times. It’s, of course, a travesty.
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Alibaba jumps on the “physical AI” bandwagon
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce and technology giant, has unveiled RynnBrain, its open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model specifically designed to power robotics.
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As GPT‑4o retires, users with AI partners report “moving fatigue”
OpenAI’s decision to retire its GPT‑4o model shook users who maintain romantic relationships with artificial intelligence (AI). As they are looking for new models to relocate, they report feeling moving fatigue.
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Instructing AI to “act drunk” may help bypass security guardrails
Like humans, large language models (LLMs) also appear to be prone to spitting harmful language when “drunk,” according to a new study.
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Digital Rorschach Test: Why are we obsessed with how AI “sees” us?
A recent ChatGPT caricature trend, where users ask a chatbot to generate an image of how it “sees” them, is yet another example of humans seeking validation and feedback from artificial intelligence (AI), even if it isn’t sentient.
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Amazon is planning a new marketplace where publishers sell content to AI
Amazon has signaled to publishing industry executives that it is planning to launch a marketplace where publishers can sell their content to firms offering artificial intelligence products, The Information reported on Monday.
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Tech ads took over Super Bowl LX – watch every AI ad
From ChatGPT to Starlink, tech brands transformed Super Bowl LX into a full-scale tech takeover – pouring millions into ads meant to shape how we live, work, and connect in an AI-driven future.
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A watchful audience notices a discrepancy in OpenAI’s ad aired during the Super Bowl
The ad, which might cost millions of dollars, included a discrepancy that some viewers believe was left on purpose.
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China's Alibaba halts AI coupon push after demand overwhelms chatbot
Alibaba's artificial intelligence chatbot Qwen has temporarily stopped issuing coupons due to customer overload, hampering a new campaign to promote the tool's capabilities beyond simply answering questions to assist shopping.
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