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Firefox’s AI Window Gets New Features Meant to Help You Stay on Task and Organized

Firefox’s AI-integrated Smart Window is getting a few new features meant to help people pick up their work right where they left off. The features, announced Tuesday, should make it easier to find answers, organize tabs together and see what you were working on earlier.

To make answers more readily available in Smart Window, Firefox is partnering with the AI company Exa as a search provider. This lets Smart Window pull current information from around the internet and it provides citations for that information. So you shouldn’t need to jump around in tabs looking for citations.

Firefox told CNET in a video call that a critical part of its doing business with Exa is that the company shares a lot of Firefox’s privacy principles, like a zero data retention policy.

“That is a red line for us to make sure [Smart Window is] as private as possible,” Ajit Varma, the...

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Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres

Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company set out the plan in a statement. The offering comes in two parts. Nebius is selling $2.75

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China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time

The Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. It is one of only a handful of private companies to land an orbital-class booster. Reuters reported that the feat places LandSpace alongside SpaceX and Blue Origin, and narrows China’s gap with the US in

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A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide

Meta is running a global campaign to push back against laws that would ban teenagers from social media, according to a new investigation by the Tech Transparency Project. The effort relies on paid influencers and funded parent groups, the watchdog said. Meta developed the tactics in the United States, the

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OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring

OpenAI has put figures and detail on the slowdown it signalled this week. It paused some frontier training for two weeks, it said. It is also running a new monitoring system for the riskiest work. That system adds about 20 percent to the compute cost of what it covers. The

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Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres

China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time

A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide

OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring