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The Gemini-powered features in Google Workspace that are worth using
Google has been steadily integrating Gemini across Google Workspace, embedding AI into Docs, Gmail, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and Meet.
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Rebel Audio is a new AI podcasting tool aimed at first-time creators
You’ve more than likely had that moment where you’re sitting with a friend, the conversation is flowing, you’re making each other laugh, maybe even saying something surprisingly insightful. Then someone says it: “We should start a podcast.” Most of the time, that idea fades as quickly as it came.
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Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says he’s not anti-AI. He can’t be. “I run a frickin’ tech company,” he told the audience at the SXSW conference in Austin this week. Still, the founder of the creator platform has limits.
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Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
Since November, Walmart has let some ChatGPT users order a limited selection of products without ever leaving OpenAI’s chatbot interface.
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Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was years ahead of the market when he pushed the company to start tinkering with building AI-specific chips back in 2010, more than a decade before the current buzz around AI.
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Nothing CEO Carl Pei says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their place
Carl Pei, co-founder and CEO of Nothing, is imagining a future beyond the iPhone — and it’s a device powered by AI agents, not running apps. “In terms of AI in software, I think people should understand that apps are going to disappear,” said Pei, whose consumer electronics brand makes unique smartp
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Musk’s tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law
The European Union may soon ban nudify apps after Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok emerged as a prime example of the dangers of an AI platform failing to block outputs that sexualized images of real people, including children. In a joint press release, the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Civil Lib
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Kagi Translate's AI answers the question "What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?"
If you’ve been using the Internet for any length of time, you’ve probably used a tool like Google Translate to convert webpages or snippets of text to and from languages ranging from Uzbek to Esperanto.
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Justice Department Says Anthropic Can’t Be Trusted With Warfighting Systems
argued in a court filing on Tuesday that it did not violate Anthropic’s First Amendment rights by designating the AI developer a supply-chain risk and predicted that the company’s lawsuit against the government will fail.“The First Amendment is not a license to unilaterally impose contract terms on
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What do new nuclear reactors mean for waste?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next.
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The Download: The Pentagon’s new AI plans, and next-gen nuclear reactors
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says The Pentagon plans to set up secure environments for generative AI c
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DOD says Anthropic’s ‘red lines’ make it an ‘unacceptable risk to national security’
The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday evening that Anthropic poses an “unacceptable risk to national security,” marking the agency’s first rebuttal to the AI lab’s lawsuits challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last month to label the company a supply-chain risk.
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For effective AI, insurance needs to get its data house in order
A report from Autorek, a provider of AI solutions to the insurance industry has produced a report that describes operational drag in companies’ internal processes that not only affect overall efficiency but cause an impediment to the effective implementation of AI in insurance concerns.
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The PhD students who became the judges of the AI industry
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff.
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Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate
Y Combinator’s famed CEO Garry Tan told a SXSW audience that he’s got “cyber psychosis” and is barely sleeping because he’s so excited to be working with AI agents. “I sleep, like, four hours a night right now,” he told his interviewer, fellow VC Bill Gurley, during an onstage interview Saturday.
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Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the enterprise
Most enterprise AI projects fail not because companies lack the technology, but because the models they’re using don’t understand their business.
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How World ID wants to put a unique human identity on every AI agent
Over the last few months, tools like OpenClaw have shown what tech-savvy AI users can do by setting a virtual cadre of automated agents on a task.
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The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says
The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data, MIT Technology Review has learned. AI models like Anthropic’s Claude are already used to answer questions in classified settings; applic
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BuzzFeed debuts AI slop apps in bid for new revenue
BuzzFeed, the U.S.-based media company known best for its quizzes, listicles, and, for a time, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism division, is reinventing itself for the AI era.
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The Pentagon is developing alternatives to Anthropic, report says
After their dramatic falling-out, it doesn’t seem as though Anthropic and the Pentagon are getting back together. Instead, the Pentagon is building tools to replace Anthropic’s AI, according to a Bloomberg conversation with Cameron Stanley, the chief digital and AI officer at the Pentagon. “The Depa