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Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and others
As part of its 25th birthday celebration, the Wikimedia Foundation announced a series of new partnerships with AI tech companies…
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How one startup is using prebiotics to try and ease the copper shortage
Five years from now, the world might start running short on copper, the critical mineral used in everything from data…
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US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet on sexualized deepfakes
The tech world’s deepfake pornography problem is now bigger than just X. In a letter to the leaders of X,…
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I pay Netflix $200+ a year. I can’t even see the account settings
I help family members with account management. (Kind of the unofficial side job of all of us tech-minded folk.) I…
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After Italy, WhatsApp excludes Brazil from rival chatbot ban
WhatsApp is allowing AI providers to continue offering their chatbots to users with Brazilian phone numbers, days after the country’s…
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A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know.
Paid Tools Google has also released new tools that will be available initially to people paying for a subscription to…
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Microsoft taps India’s Varaha for durable carbon removal offtake
Microsoft has signed a deal with Indian startup Varaha to buy more than 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits…
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Get Microsoft Office and Windows 11 Pro for life for $40
TL;DR: Get this bundle of Microsoft Office and Windows 11 Pro on sale for $39.97 (MSRP $418.99). Microsoft rarely makes lifetime software this…
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Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI
Former OpenAI exec Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is saying goodbye to two of its co-founders, both of whom…
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The FTC’s data-sharing order against GM is finally settled
The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it has finalized an order that bans General Motors and its OnStar telematics service…
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India’s Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can’t replace
As AI automates parts of the workforce, Emversity, an Indian workforce-training startup, is building talent pipelines for roles it sees…
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Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe
Elon Musk said Wednesday he is “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok,” hours before the California…
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