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AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assistants, copilots, and generators, each one promising to change
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In brief: Google has announced its biggest Android Auto update in years, headlined by a revamped Google Maps interface that stretches across the entire screen, regardless of size or shape. The updated OS also
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Shortly after its Android Show announcements on Tuesday, Google's DeepMind, the company's artificial intelligence lab, detailed the upcoming Magic Pointer, a feature that reimagines the mouse pointer with AI capabilities. The feature will be available in Googlebooks, Google's new AI-focused laptops, later this year.
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A recent Gallup poll found that a majority of Americans oppose data centers, which require extensive amounts of electricity and water to operate, and negatively affect local communities. 3 min read There's a growing backlash against the construction of local data centers, which consume massive amounts of electricity
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With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year. The company may soon pull ahead of its main competitor, as it looks to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would put its valuation at some $950 billion (OpenAI
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ByNick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology May 13, 2026 03:28 PM ET The enterprise license agreement is part of a $5.6 billion vehicle and will bring agentic artificial intelligence to workforce and logistics management. * Contracts * Artificial Intelligence Salesforce has signed a new $72 million enterprise license agreement with the
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Building AI sustainably seems like a pipe dream as tech giants that previously made promises to cut emissions have been racing to build out massive data centers powered by fossil fuels. The rush to build out AI at all costs has been reinforced by the Trump administration, which is also
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Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online series The Backrooms: a parallel universe with no internal logic, evil corporations lurking in the background, and mind-rending eldritch
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* Four in five execs say they were less likely to value human employees after using AI * AI still requires human oversight, and many struggle to fully trust it * Poor and even negative ROI continues to plague many A new study by Globalization Partners has revealed more than four in five
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Using the 1,000 most influential voices in AI that also happen to be on X, Digg wants to be your source of AI news. 3 min read Following its beta relaunch in January as a Reddit-like social news website and app, Digg shut down just two months later due
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The US Department of Homeland Security, in collaboration with the Defense Research and Development Canada, is looking to send autonomous drones and vehicles along the US-Canada border this fall, testing which products can stream surveillance video and sensor data between the two countries using commercial 5G networks. A new DHS
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