Just as the US and UK refused to sign an international statement about AI safety at the AI Action Summit earlier this week, an AI study out of China revealed that AI models have reached a “red line” humans should be aware of: The AI can replicate itself, which sounds like one of the nightmare…
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Youth activists have gathered outside Meta’s London offices to protest how the company allegedly exploits younger users for profit at the expense of their mental health, as part of a wider series of actions against the corporate and structural drivers of mental illness. On 4 February 2025, around 20 youth activists with experience of…
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We’ve had leaks saying Apple was studying foldable iPhone technology for years, but something has changed in the past few months. An increasing number of reports claim that Apple has decided to manufacture a foldable iPhone, which would get a fall 2026 release date.We’re now seeing an uptick in foldable iPhone rumors, which signals that…
Ultra-thin foldable iPhone coming next year, and its main specs might have leaked Read More »
Whenever I look at a new generative AI model that can make music based on text prompts, I test it immediately to see what it can do. Most of the time, the results are incredible, but the samples are too short, and each one requires manual playback.I thought that would be the case with Riffusion’s…
I found a free AI music generator that legitimately sounds like real, professional music Read More »
The future of Apple wearables just got dimmer as the company has canceled augmented reality glasses that would be able to pair with its devices.According to Bloomberg, Apple’s AR glasses, codenamed N107, were scrapped this week after failing to win over executives. The glasses were initially set to pair with an iPhone, but Apple ran…
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Pure Storage thinks things are slotting into place for its predicted imminent demise of enterprise spinning disk. In December 2024, it announced an unnamed hyperscaler had inked an agreement to take Pure’s DirectFlash Modules (DFMs) as components for storage infrastructure. Meanwhile, Pure Storage now counts Nand flash makers Micron and Kioxia as supply chain partners.…
Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row? Read More »
In October 2024, the European Commission (EC) published its Digital fairness fitness check report as part of a continued effort to evaluate the effectiveness of European Union (EU) legislation with consumer protection laws. Specifically, it evaluated the efficacy of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the Consumer Rights Directive, and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive. The…
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OpenAI released its Operator AI agent for ChatGPT on Thursday, which should have been a major milestone for the company and AI development in general. While I wouldn’t pay $200/month to test this early version of Operator, what I saw in the OpenAI demos blew my mind. Operator is miles ahead of Google’s AI agents,…
President Trump delayed the US TikTok ban a few days ago, but the reprieve is still temporary. ByteDance, the giant Chinese corporation that owns the social network, still has to sell the US version of TikTok or risk a complete ban in the country once the 75-day deadline expires. The law that forced the situation…
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The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has published new information revealing how threat actors, among them nation state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) operations working on behalf of the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, attempted to abuse its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Google said that government actors from at least 20 countries…
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