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Chrome Integrates Gemini AI for Autonomous Task Features
Google is integrating its Gemini AI directly into Chrome as a persistent sidebar, transforming it into a constant companion that can understand open tabs and assist with complex tasks, in response to new AI-focused browsers. Key new features include the sidebar recognizing grouped tabs for activi...
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Small Nuclear Reactors: Startups' Big Comeback and Challenges
A major resurgence in nuclear energy is driven by investment in **small modular reactors (SMRs)**, which aim to overcome traditional nuclear power's high costs and delays through factory-built, standardized units. The industry faces significant hurdles in scaling up manufacturing, including a sev...
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LMArena Hits $1.7B Valuation Just Four Months After Launch
LMArena achieved a $1.7 billion valuation after a $150 million Series A round, reflecting intense market demand for independent AI benchmarking and bringing its total funding to $250 million in under seven months. The company operates crowdsourced AI model leaderboards, using human preferences fr...
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Tech's Biggest Blunders of the Year
Automated content moderation caused significant issues, as seen when attorney Mark Zuckerberg sued Meta after his legitimate business ads were suspended due to name confusion with the tech billionaire. The intense competition for AI talent led to extreme and bizarre recruitment tactics, including...
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AI to Disrupt Labor Market by 2026, Investors Warn
The rapid advancement of AI is causing immediate labor market disruption, with a recent MIT study estimating that 11.7% of jobs could already be automated using current technology, leading to layoffs and the elimination of entry-level roles. Venture capitalists widely predict 2026 as a pivotal ye...
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DACLab Cuts CO2 Removal Energy Use Below Competitors
Despite global pledges to reduce carbon emissions, they reached a record high last year, increasing the urgency for effective carbon removal technologies like direct air capture (DAC). DACLab has developed a system that uses only 1,500 kWh per metric ton of CO₂ captured, improving on the industry...
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First EU Alternative App Store Announces Shutdown
Setapp Mobile, a subscription-based alternative app store in the EU, will shut down by February 2026, citing Apple's complex and evolving fee structure, including the Core Technology Fee, as the primary reason. The closure highlights the difficulty for companies to build sustainable strategies un...
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Ex-Snap Exec's AI Video Startup Higgsfield Hits $1.3B Valuation
Higgsfield has achieved a $1.3 billion valuation after raising an $80 million Series A extension, bringing its total Series A funding to $130 million. The AI video generation startup reports rapid growth, with over 15 million users and a current annual revenue run rate of $200 million, which doub...
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VC Jon Medved, Diagnosed with ALS, Backs Tech That Will Improve His Life
Venture capitalist Jon Medved, diagnosed with ALS, now personally relies on health technology startups from his own investment portfolio, transforming his professional foresight into a personal survival toolkit. Medved's firm, OurCrowd, revolutionized venture capital by crowdfunding investments a...
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Adobe Firefly adds AI video editing and third-party models
Adobe has upgraded its Firefly AI app with a new video editor, allowing users to make precise, prompt-based modifications to specific elements like colors or objects without regenerating the entire video. The platform is expanding its generative capabilities by integrating third-party AI models, ...
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Ring Doorbells Now Use AI Facial Recognition
Amazon's Ring has launched a "Familiar Faces" AI feature in the U.S., allowing users to label and receive customized alerts for up to fifty recognized individuals like family or delivery drivers. The feature has sparked significant privacy and security concerns from advocates and lawmakers, citin...
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Netflix Adds Red Dead Redemption for Mobile Play
Netflix has added the classic game *Red Dead Redemption* to its mobile gaming library, marking its first official release on iOS and Android for all subscribers. The mobile version features adapted touch controls but lacks multiplayer and requires a persistent internet connection, as offline play...
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Gemini Powers Your 2025 Google Photos Recap
Google Photos has launched its 2025 year-end Recap feature, which uses Gemini AI to create a personalized, nostalgic visual summary of a user's most significant moments and hobbies from their photo library. The Recap provides photo statistics like total photos, most photographed people, and a new...
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OpenAI's Sora Tops Apple's US App Store Charts
OpenAI's Sora video app rapidly reached the number one spot on the U.S. App Store, achieving 164,000 downloads in its first two days despite being invite-only and limited to the U.S. and Canada. Its debut of 56,000 downloads tied with xAI's Grok and surpassed competitors like Anthropic's Claude a...
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AI Can Bridge Divides and Find Common Ground
A new startup, Complex Chaos, is developing AI tools to bridge political divides and build consensus by fostering mutual understanding and streamlining group decision-making. Their AI integrates technologies like Google's Habermas Machine and OpenAI's ChatGPT to facilitate discussions, define goa...
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The AI Profitability Test: Can Labs Turn Innovation Into Income?
The AI industry is characterized by a spectrum of ambition, from purely research-driven labs to those aggressively pursuing commercial dominance, making it difficult to distinguish their true goals. A five-level scale clarifies this by ranking organizations based on their underlying drive for pro...
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How to Choose the Perfect Apple Watch for You
The 2024 Apple Watch lineup includes the budget-friendly SE 3, the advanced Series 11, and the premium Ultra 3 for elite athletes. The SE 3 offers excellent value with core features like an always-on display and key health tools, making it a compelling, well-rounded smartwatch. The Series 11 just...
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Harness AI Hits $5.5B Valuation in $240M Raise
Harness raised $240 million in Series E funding, increasing its valuation to $5.5 billion and projecting annual recurring revenue to surpass $250 million in 2025. The company's AI-powered DevOps platform automates the testing, securing, and deployment of software, addressing a major bottleneck cr...
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OpenAI Disables App Suggestions That Resemble Ads
OpenAI disabled promotional suggestions in ChatGPT after user backlash, acknowledging the feature missed the mark for user experience and has been turned off. Company executives clarified no ads are currently running, stating any future advertising model would be approached thoughtfully to respec...
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beehiiv expands with AI website builder and creator tools
beehiiv has expanded its platform to include AI-powered website building, enabling creators to design sites without coding through conversational AI or drag-and-drop tools. The platform now supports selling digital products like ebooks with zero commission, podcast hosting, and offers real-time a...
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Google Maps Integrates Gemini for Smarter, Hands-Free Navigation
Google Maps is integrating Gemini AI to enable hands-free navigation, allowing drivers to ask questions and perform tasks safely without manual interaction. The AI enhances the driving experience by providing information on nearby points of interest, handling practical actions, and supporting con...
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Google Gemini Launches in US Chrome with Agentic Browsing
Google has launched its Gemini AI assistant for all U.S. desktop users, expanding access beyond paid subscribers and introducing new browser-based capabilities. The assistant can now operate across multiple tabs, compare information, and will soon retrieve past web pages, while also integrating w...
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Apple's iPhone 17 Debuts with 120Hz ProMotion Display
The iPhone 17 introduces a ProMotion display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 3,000 nits peak brightness, enhancing smoothness and outdoor visibility. It features a 3nm A19 processor, a 48-megapixel ultrawide camera for improved photography, and an 18-megapixel front camera for versatile selfies. Pr...
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Signal Now Offers Free & Paid Chat Backups
Signal has introduced a free backup feature for text conversations and recent media, with a paid plan offering 100GB for complete media storage. This update addresses previous limitations by providing secure, encrypted cloud backups, enhancing data recovery and user privacy. Initially available i...
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Instagram's New Custom Icons Are Just for Teens
Instagram has introduced customizable app icons exclusively for teen accounts, offering six design options to personalize their home screen experience. The feature has sparked frustration among adult users who feel excluded, as Instagram confirmed no immediate plans to extend access or offer it v...
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Nvidia's AI Predicted This Storm Weeks in Advance
Nvidia's new Earth-2 AI platform promises faster and more accurate weather forecasts than traditional models, potentially revolutionizing prediction methods. Its suite includes models for ultra-short-term nowcasting and rapid global data assimilation, significantly reducing computational time and...
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Mesa Ends Mortgage-Rewards Credit Card
Mesa has permanently shut down its Homeowners Card program, closing all accounts and halting its unique rewards system for mortgage and household spending. The startup, which launched with significant funding, offered a novel credit card targeting home-related expenses but has not disclosed its f...
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OpenAI Secures Major For-Profit Funding Round
OpenAI has restructured into a for-profit corporation under its original non-profit foundation, enabling it to pursue funding and acquisitions more freely while maintaining oversight by the Foundation. The finalized ownership gives the OpenAI Foundation a 26% stake and Microsoft a 27% stake, with...
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Facebook's AI Can Now Edit Your Phone Photos
Facebook is introducing an optional AI feature in the U.S. and Canada that analyzes private photos to suggest creative edits, requiring user permission for cloud processing to enable these enhancements. Meta states that photos are not used for advertising or AI training unless edited or shared, b...
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Sora Copycats Still Flood the App Store
The launch of OpenAI's official Sora app led to a surge of fraudulent copycat apps on the App Store, many using the "Sora" or "Sora 2" names to deceive users and bypass Apple's review process. These counterfeit apps, some rebranded from existing ones, have accumulated around 300,000 installations...
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Microsoft Dodges EU Probe by Unbundling Teams from Office
Microsoft has agreed to separate Teams from its Office and Microsoft 365 suites to avoid an EU antitrust investigation, offering versions without Teams at a lower price and improving interoperability with rivals. The decision resolves a multi-year probe initiated after a complaint from Slack, whi...
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Are Faulty Incentives Causing AI Hallucinations?
Advanced language models like GPT-5 and ChatGPT persistently generate plausible but false statements, known as hallucinations, which are inherent and can be reduced but not fully eliminated. Hallucinations occur because models learn to predict text patterns without truth labels during pretraining...
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