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Tired of filling out forms? Claude can do it for you
Claude AI is learning how to use a computer like a human.
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Microsoft revives shuttered nuclear plant in controversial plan to power data centers
Microsoft kicks off a controversial years-long plan to revive the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania – the site of a 1979 nuclear meltdown – all to offset its power-hungry data centers.
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Top 5 European cities for startups in 2024
The city of Palo Alto, California, is a global leader in technology development. Also known as the birthplace of Silicon Valley, it’s home to nearly a thousand famous companies and innumerable startups.
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Democrats ask, are you in your “voting era?” with new Taylor Swift-themed Snapchat filter
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has launched a Taylor Swift-themed Snapchat filter, aiming to attract the attention of young voters in swing states.
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Another utopian town being built for Silicon Valley executives
A group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs has decided to build a student campus-like utopian town called Esmeralda, 90 miles north of San Francisco. At the moment, they’re in the process of buying 267 acres of land near Cloverdale in Sonoma County.
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WhatsApp AI assistant gets (too) personal after latest update
Not everyone may remember your allergies, but Meta AI will.
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Overwhelmed by hate, some consider selling their Cybertrucks
The Cybertruck has gotten a bad rep in some circles. Now, people are even considering selling theirs due to the hate and negative attention they get on the road. Oh, and Elon Musk’s ramblings on X.
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Google's human-like AI podcast generator now lets you customize your podcasts
Google has officially released NotebookLM’s tool Audio Overview, allowing users to guide a podcast.
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Tesla seeks redemption after Optimus controversy: “navigating by myself”
Tesla has released a new video of its Optimus bot walking autonomously. This comes after Optimus was revealed to be reportedly controlled by humans at the ‘We, Robot’ event.
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Tesla Optimus bots actually controlled by humans during ‘We, Robot’ event
Turns out that Tesla’s Optimus robots aren’t truly autonomous after all, as they were being controlled by humans the whole time during the ‘We, Robot’ event.
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Adobe equips marketers with AI so they can push more ads on users
Adobe has introduced a new tool for marketers to make it easier to target their customers.
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Tesla event ‘We, Robot’ extravaganza: best moments
If you haven’t heard of the Tesla ‘We, Robot’ event that’s been happening in California, then you might be living under a rock.
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Algorithms foster hive-mind behavior online pushing us towards extremes
News that half of all internet traffic comes from bots continues to fuel the popular conspiracy around the dead internet theory. It can be hard to make sense of the world around us during a time when AI aspires to be more human, and tech leaders appear to be obsessed with turning humanity into cyborgs as they explore transhumanism.
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Gig workers struggle to free themselves from the opaque algorithms they serve
A prevailing narrative around AI is that it will take care of the drudgery of life and liberate us to do the things that make us uniquely human. In I, Human, UCL's Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic questions whether this narrative is actually true or whether we're ultimately becoming slaves to technology.
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Brazilians can tweet again as X complies with court orders
Elon Musk’s free speech crusade in Brazil has ended in defeat. X paid a $5.1 million fine, blocked specified accounts, appointed a legal representative, and complied with other court orders. Now, Brazilians can tweet again.
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Musk’s “We, Robot” event: what to expect and how to watch
Tesla is set to unveil its robotaxi and possibly demonstrate its humanoid robot Optimus, dubbed Tesla Bot.
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Another humanoid robot debuts in China
A new humanoid robot unveiled by a Chinese firm JAKA Robotics is more retro in appearance than many of its industry peers.
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EVs submerged by Hurricane Helene burn down Florida houses
Several houses washed by water from Hurricane Helene burned down after water-submerged electric vehicle (EV) batteries caught fire.
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Google now lets you search videos with voice
Google’s new AI tools are aimed at improving search and expanding it with multimodality.
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Top 5 best videos made with Pika’s AI video generator so far
Text-to-video and image-to-video generators are becoming more advanced by the day. As users await the widespread release of OpenAI’s Sora model, there’s another competitor that just might beat the richest AI start-up to the top spot.
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