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Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step for a company that has been slow and deliberate about AI. Co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky has said in the past that a chatbot-only interface is not fit for travel discovery. With
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New York City residents struggling to get out of recurring subscription fees can now submit complaints to the city government. As of Thursday, the city’s click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up. That
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An anime voice actor was partly successful in his case against an anonymous TikTok account. miss.cabul/Shutterstock A Tokyo court has sided with a Japanese voice actor who claimed a TikTok account had used AI to clone his "lustrous" baritone delivery, ruling that the human voice is
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GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHIV, a new San Francisco firm that
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MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5. MI5 published the warning on Wednesday
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Google DeepMind has brought its SynthID watermarking technology to synthetic biology. The new tool, SynthID Bio, hides a signature in the amino acid sequence or predicted 3D structure of a protein. The lab announced it on Wednesday in a blog post and a paper in Nature. Google DeepMind says a
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Instagram is putting a chatbot inside Edits, its video editing app for creators. The tool reads a creator’s Instagram data and suggests what to make next. It is rolling out to all Edits users in the US, Brett Westervelt, who leads the app, wrote in a blog post on
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As businesses everywhere continue to get to grips with the reality of AI-powered workflows, Snowflake has revealed its view of what it will take for a company to become a truly agentic enterprise. Speaking at the company’s Snowflake World Tour London event, senior leaders laid out how a number
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. What's new in Zoho Tables with Apple's latest
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"AI tokens are working capital," said Tarun Pant, Director of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud, while moderating a discussion on startup AI economics at Google Cloud Startup Summit 2026 in Bengaluru. The line, in a way, captured a problem that kept coming up often through the event. The air
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At OpenAI’s annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals — primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam Altman walked onstage to cheers and announced Dots, a “real-deal AI” agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, “inspired by
