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Apple's latest iOS 18.1 software update introduced a series of Apple Intelligence features, including Writing Tools and notification summaries. However, some features were missing from the lineup, like Genmoji, which allows users to create emojis from written prompts.  Now, with iOS 18.2,

Generative AI has a plethora of well-documented misuses, from making up academic papers to copying artists. And now, it appears to be cropping up in state influence operations. One recent campaign was “very likely” helped by commercial AI voice generation products, including tech publicly rel

Amazon says that it’s establishing a new R&D lab in San Francisco, the Amazon AGI SF Lab, to focus on building “foundational” capabilities for AI agents. The Amazon AGI SF Lab will be led by David Luan, the co-founder of AI startup Adept, and will seek to build agents that c

When it comes to market capitalization, Nvidia is currently the second-biggest public company in the world, behind Apple. That's why all eyes are on Nvidia these days. And now, as Bloomberg spotted, China Central Television, a public TV broadcaster, is reporting that China's market regulat

As more AI companies gobble up Reddit’s data to fuel their own chatbots, the popular online forum site has begun testing a new conversational AI feature of its own. The feature, called Reddit Answers, allows visitors to ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and thr

Ever wondered if you could get an AI bot to fall in love with you? Now you have the chance.  Freysa.ai is a team of anonymous developers building a series of increasingly meta challenges designed to influence how humans think about AI safety. The third challenge is starting sometime in the n

Spotify Wrapped isn’t the only service offering a year-end recap these days. In addition to the year-end reviews from other streamers and social apps, Google Photos is among the apps providing users with a look back at key moments throughout the past year. The feature, “2024 Recap,̶

Microsoft’s AI can now read your screen — or rather, the websites you’re browsing. On Thursday, the company began rolling out a limited, U.S.-only preview of Copilot Vision, a tool that can understand and respond to questions about sites you’re visiting using Microsoft Edge. Ga

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, technewss is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who've contributed to the AI revolution. Tamar Eilam has worked at IBM for the past 24 years. She's curre

OpenAI’s “12 days of shipmas” event doesn’t kick off for a while, but the first big announcement might’ve been revealed early. A “feature gated” web page on OpenAI’s website refers to a “ChatGPT Pro” plan that includes all the benefits of

The overarching promise of companies working on AI-powered productivity tools is to build solutions that would do a task for you. Some of the early demos that we have seen don’t really fare well in fulfilling those promises. A to-do list app called Twos is approaching this problem differentl

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, is expanding its publisher program, with the LA Times, Adweek, Mexico News Daily, and a dozen other news outlets signing up. Publishers will share in revenue generated by ads on Perplexity, and receive metrics to track their content’s performance —

When Humane released its Ai Pin, the San Francisco-based gadget maker envisioned a world with dedicated AI devices — something that you would carry with you in addition to the smartphone in your pocket. However, reviews and sales haven't been great — returns reportedly began to outpace un

Although heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, a significant portion of people who experience heart attacks are unaware that they have the underlying condition. Cleerly, a cardiovascular imaging startup, hopes to fix this. By analyzing CT scans of the heart, the company