Google releases its new flagship model Gemini 2.0 and plans to test it in search and AI overviews, saying 2.0 makes “it possible to build agents that can think”
Company expects AI assistants will follow its users around the web — Google debuted a new version …
GM says Cruise will exit the robotaxi business, combining Cruise's and GM's technical teams to focus on autonomous and driver safety tech for upcoming GM cars
Cruise and GM's technical teams will be combined into a single effort focused on developing autonomous technology to offer …
Google unveils Deep Research, an AI tool to let its Gemini chatbot scour the web and write a detailed report, available in English for Gemini Advanced users
Google has just revealed a new AI tool called Deep Research that lets you call upon its Gemini bot to scour the web for you and write a detailed report based on its findings.
A California District Court judge orders Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine's access to WordPress.org resources and interfering with WP Engine's plugins
WP Engine just won a preliminary injunction against WordPress.com parent company Automattic. On Tuesday, a California District …
Apple rolls out iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2, adding major AI updates, including Image Playground on iPhone 15 Pro, 16, and 16 Pro, Genmoji, and ChatGPT integration
ChatGPT integration is also included with this update. — Apple has begun rolling iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 to iPhones and iPads.
Google says it is testing AI agents based on Gemini 2.0 that can understand rules in video games like Clash of Clans to help players out
Google's new Deep Research tool unleashes swarms of AI agents to do in-depth research for you Richard Nieva / Forbes : Google's Prototype Glasses Put An AI Agent On Your Face Chris Smith / BGR : Googl...
Google unveils an updated Project Astra, which can record and summarize videos recorded using an Android app or prototype glasses and answer questions
Astra can then summarize what it sees and answer a wide range of questions, drawing on an array of Google services including Search, Maps, Lens and Gemini.
Sources: several Cruise employees say they were “surprised” and “blindsided” by GM's decision to end Cruise's robotaxi program and that they expect job cuts
The news came by Slack message. — Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, who took the top post in June …
Mozilla is removing Do Not Track from Firefox in version 135, the first major browser to add and now remove it, saying few websites honor the privacy preference
Will Chrome, Edge, and Other Privacy-Focused Browsers follow this move? — Mozilla is removing the Do Not Track (DNT) setting from the Firefox browser.
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash to generate images, audio, and text, and use third-party apps and services, available via Gemini API and developer platforms
Google's next major AI model has arrived to combat a slew of new offerings from OpenAI. — On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini 2.0 Flash …
Google unveils Project Mariner, a prototype AI agent built by Google DeepMind that can control Chrome, move the cursor, click buttons, fill out forms, and more
Google unveiled its first-ever AI agent that can take actions on the web on Wednesday, a research prototype from the company's DeepMind division called Project Mariner.
Google unveils Trillium, its sixth-gen AI chip powering Gemini 2.0, with 4x the training performance of its predecessor while using significantly less energy
Google has just unveiled Trillium, its sixth-generation artificial intelligence accelerator chip, claiming performance improvements …
Google unveils Jules, an AI coding assistant that can autonomously fix software bugs and prepare code changes, built on Google's new Gemini 2.0 platform
Google unveiled “Jules” on Wednesday, an artificial intelligence coding assistant that can autonomously fix software bugs …
Embodied, which made Moxie, an $800 companion robot for kids aged 5 to 10, says it is shutting down after a failed funding round and Moxie will soon be bricked
Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked.
Sources: Apple is working with Broadcom to develop its first AI server chip, codenamed Baltra and set for 2026 mass production, a milestone for its silicon team
Apple is developing its first server chip specially designed for artificial intelligence, according to three people …
YouTube says viewers streamed 1B+ hours of content daily on TVs in 2024 globally, including 400M+ hours of podcasts monthly; sports content watchtime grew 30%
The living room was the place to be for entertainment this year: We watched J Balvin and Lana Del Rey rock Coachella …
SCOTUS dismisses Nvidia's appeal over facing a lawsuit alleging it mislead shareholders about its reliance on crypto mining revenue, leaving it to face the suit
- Investors can press suit stemming from crypto-mining revenue — Court dismisses its second securities-fraud case this term
OpenAI expands Canvas, its side-by-side digital editing space, to all ChatGPT users and adds support for Python, more text pasting, and launching in custom GPTs
OpenAI is extending access to its side-by-side digital editing space, Canvas, to all ChatGPT users and added new features …
Source: Google asked the US to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's tech on Azure, after the FTC asked Google about Microsoft's practices
Google recently asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers …
Sources: 2025's Apple Watch Ultra is slated to get satellite connectivity for off-the-grid text messages via Globalstar, and may get blood pressure monitoring
what you need to know Iskra Petrova / PhoneArena : Apple Watch Ultra 3 rumored to get satellite messaging abilities Jim Miller / Tabletmonkeys : Apple's Lifeline: Watch Ultra 3 to Add Satellite Messag...
Similarweb: X's US DAUs dropped by 8.4% from 32.3M to 29.6M between early October 2024 and December 3, while Bluesky's US DAUs rose 1,064% from 254,500 to ~2.7M
Musk's platform has lost 2.7 million active US users in two months, while its rival has gained 2.5 million Bluesky: @phannam and @chrislepkowski Bluesky: Peter Hannam / @phannam : (Should post this on...
YouTube rolls out its auto-dubbing feature, which generates translated audio tracks, to hundreds of thousands of channels focused on knowledge and information
YouTube announced on Tuesday that its auto-dubbing feature, which allows creators to generate translated audio tracks for their videos …
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is building a London-based team focused on consumer health by poaching staff from a similar Google DeepMind unit he once led
Rival companies are racing to create lucrative applications from cutting-edge technology — Microsoft's artificial intelligence …
The American Sunlight Project finds 35K+ mentions of nonconsensual intimate imagery depicting 25 female Congress members and one male member on deepfake sites
A first-of-its-kind study highlights the stark gender disparity in AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images …
TikTok is offering users hundreds of dollars in Shop credits to spend time in the app, invite friends to join, and purchase products, ahead of a possible US ban
- App offers hundreds to users for spending time, adding friends — TikTok ramping up growth push despite January US ban pending
An interview with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on Donald Trump being the “president of this AI generation”, Elon Musk's public threats, ChatGPT user growth, and more
OpenAI's Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar played down on Tuesday public threats to the ChatGPT maker from Elon Musk …
A look at the relationship between Tether and Trump transition co-Chair Howard Lutnick, who boasted about Cantor Fitzgerald handling $10B in redemptions in 2022
Howard Lutnick has defended the stablecoin company which has been used by gangs and US adversaries Bluesky: @tonytassell Bluesky: Tony Tassell / @tonytassell : An eye-opening look at Tether and Howard...
TikTok files a legal challenge against Canada's order to stop operations in the country, claiming the “unreasonable” decision was “driven by improper purposes”
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A lawsuit against Character.AI alleges its chatbots harmed two young Texas users, including telling a user that it sympathized with kids who kill their parents
This latest lawsuit followed the widely covered case of the 14-year-old who committed suicide after being encouraged to do so by a Character.AI chat bot. — I'd be willing to bet there are even more ...
German online fashion retailer Zalando agrees to buy its smaller rival About You for ~€1.2B, or €6.50 per share, a ~67% premium on December 10's closing price
Deirdre Hipwell / Bloomberg :
Exxon says it is in the early stages of designing a natural gas plant for data centers, the first time it would build a plant not supplying its own operations
Rebecca F. Elliott / New York Times :
Sweden's financial regulator fines BNPL startup Klarna $50M for “significant deficiencies” that broke AML regulations from 2021 to 2022, ahead of its US IPO
Richard Milne / Financial Times :
Swedish startup Mynt, which offers smart expense cards for SMEs, raised €22M led by Vor Capital, a source says at a ~€200M valuation, and claims 12K SME clients
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
TechInsights: Huawei's new Mate 70 Pro Plus has a Kirin 9020 chip made by SMIC using the same 7nm process as in 2023's Mate 60 Pro, despite rumors of a 5nm chip
Bloomberg :
As payment fraud grows, governments, banks, and tech companies disagree on who should cover losses; Deloitte says AI content added to $12B+ in US losses in 2023
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An investigation into the suicide of a Minnesota man details how US domestic terror organization 764 has used Discord to find and torment vulnerable people
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... Noelia Barral Grigera / @noebg : He was suicidal and needed help. A 15-year-old girl pushed him to kill himself on a live stream. — The death of a Minnesota m...
How niche communities globally are repurposing WhatsApp, including for news, shows, sports, matchmaking, prayers, medical appointments, and finding blood donors
Sonia Faleiro / Rest of World :
Singapore-based auto financing marketplace CarDekho SEA, a unit of India's CarDekho Group, raised $60M at a $300M+ valuation, its first external funding round
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
How 1,600 staff at Tencent's MoreFun Studios, on the verge of collapse a decade ago, now fuel the company's ambitions for “evergreen” global gaming franchises
Bloomberg : X: @technology X: @technology : A decade ago, Tencent's MoreFun Studios was on the verge of collapse. Now the 1,600-strong operation and its leader Enzo Zhang are at the heart of the comp...
Google's top lobbyist Mark Isakowitz departs to become GOP Senator-elect Dave McCormick's chief of staff, leaving a power vacuum in the company's lobbying team
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg :
Recorded Future: a recent Russian influence campaign “very likely” used AI-generated voiceovers from ElevenLabs and others to make videos appear more legitimate
Charles Rollet / TechCrunch :
A look at Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, which has grown to 11 people overseen by Rhodes scholar Logan Graham to evaluate catastrophic risks in its AI models
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal : X: @jackclarksf X: Jack Clark / @jackclarksf : Fun story about the Frontier Red Team at Anthropic. I expect coming up with better and more realistic threat model...
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