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Reddit is bringing machine learning-powered translations to more than 35 new locales in Europe, Asia, and Latin America in a move designed to open the largely English-centric social network to more users. The service comes nearly five months after Reddit first introduced site-wide translation for

Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, launched a free AI-powered spam-detection system for all customers on Wednesday, aiming to curb the country’s raging unwanted calls and messages while also calling for stricter regulation of WhatsApp and other messaging platforms.

Spotify has expanded the availability of its AI Playlist tool to the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand after initially launching it for Premium subscribers in the U.K. and Australia.  This feature, currently in beta on Android and iOS devices, allows users to create personalized playlist

Snap has entered into an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to power generative AI experiences within Snapchat’s My AI chatbot. The chatbot will leverage the multimodal capabilities of Google’s Gemini AI to enable the chatbot to understand different types of information, like text,

Founder mode? Pffft. Who needs that when you can be the father of creation, ushering in a new age of humanity? Welcome to “god mode.” Sam Altman, the CEO of the AI startup headed for a $150 billion valuation, OpenAI, has historically pitched AI as the solution to the world'

Cloudflare announced plans on Monday to launch a marketplace in the next year where website owners can sell AI model providers access to scrape their site’s content. The marketplace is the final step of Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince’s larger plan to give publishers greater control over

Speaking Saturday at the UN Summit of the Future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described AI as “the most transformative technology yet” and announced a new fund for AI education and training around the world. Pichai pointed to four broad opportunities he sees for AI and sustainable development: he

If you love gadgets and gizmos, this year's product conferences have been right up your alley. We've poked through the many product announcements made so far this year by the biggest tech companies and trade shows to create a list of what we think are the most important, or the most intere

Apple’s iPhone 16 is out, but the company hasn’t made its iOS 18 Apple Intelligence features available to all consumers just yet. In July, Apple rolled out these features to users on the iOS 18 developer beta and added the AI features for public beta users earlier this week. However, if

California’s newest law could land social media users who post, or repost, AI deepfakes that deceive voters about upcoming elections in legal trouble. Governor Gavin Newsom suggests that AB 2839, which went into effect immediately after he signed it on Tuesday, could be used to reel in the re

Amazon sellers now have access to an AI assistant designed to help grow their business by answering questions about their metrics, and later, helping to resolve issues that arise. The assistant, code-named Project Amelia and built on AWS’s Amazon Bedrock, is available in beta to U.S. sellers,

Hiya, folks, welcome to technewss's regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s been just a few days since OpenAI revealed its latest flagship generative model, o1, to the world. Marketed as a “reasoning” model, o1 essential

Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, is expanding its suite of AI tools for creators. At this year’s Snap Partner Summit in Santa Monica, California, Snap announced a new feature, Easy Lens, that translates plain-English descriptions into Lenses, Snap’s brand of augmented reality (AR

At its annual Snap Partner Summit on Tuesday, Snapchat announced that it's introducing a new AI video-generation tool for creators. The tool will allow select creators to generate AI videos from text prompts and, soon, from image prompts.  Snap says the tool will be available in beta on the w