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On Wednesday, xAI and Anthropic announced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker buying out “all of the compute capacity at [xAI’s] Colossus 1 data center,” roughly 300MW that allowed Anthropic to immediately raise its usage limits. It’s a huge deal for xAI, likely worth billions of dollars.
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Meta is beefing up its age-verification mechanisms with an AI system that analyzes images and videos on Instagram and Facebook for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure, to identify and delete accounts of users under the age of 13. The company announced the move amid a wave of
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Iryna Tolmachova/Shutterstock Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has found OpenAI was "not compliant with" Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws in the training of its AI models. Following an investigation, Dufresne and his counterparts in Alberta, Quebec and British Columbia say OpenAI's approach
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported
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In this episode of The Agent Factory, Vlad Kolesnikov and I sat down with Omar Sanseviero from the Developer Experience team at Google DeepMind. We explored the groundbreaking release of Gemma 4: a new family of open models designed to bring high-level intelligence and agentic capabilities directly to consumer hardware
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Samuel Boivin/Shutterstock Snap's $400 million deal with Perplexity to put the AI search engine directly in Snapchat is dead. The two companies "amicably ended the relationship" earlier this year, Snap disclosed in its latest earnings report. The two companies first announced the partnership last November,
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A game with more than two decades of virtual space combat, piracy and commerce is apparently fertile ground for training future AI models. Google DeepMind this week announced plans to use the popular roleplaying game Eve Online on Wednesday for training, Bloomberg reports. Eve Online is a massively multiplayer online
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Taking time out of your day to move your body and stand for a bit when you work a desk job is a simple, healthy habit that prevents stiffness and fatigue. Using a standing desk for your home office, game room or crafting area is an easy way to incorporate
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* Apple has lost a class action lawsuit to the tune of $250 million * The case relates to delayed Apple Intelligence features affecting Siri * If you’re eligible, you could get up to $95 per device It’s disappointing enough that Apple’s much hyped Apple Intelligence overhaul has been beset
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced
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Business insurance startup Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion, the startup’s co-founder Nico Laqua said on LinkedIn. This comes just four months after the company announced a $108 million Series A. The company has now raised
