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It’s the latest in a barrage of efforts to win compensation from AI companies over training materials. Horacio Villalobos/Getty Images A trio of publishers and one author are seeking a class action lawsuit against Google on claims that the tech company broke copyright law by using their works
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Apple has released the first public beta of iOS 27. * iOS 27 includes the new and improved Siri AI. * Siri AI is the voice assistant I've been waiting for. For years, I'
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TL;DR IBM shares fell sharply after preliminary Q2 revenue came in below estimates despite AI bookings topping $12 billion cumulatively. IBM issued preliminary second-quarter results on Monday showing revenue of roughly $17 billion, up one percent year over year but well below the $18 billion that analysts had expected.
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TL;DR Twenty-six Meta employees sued the company alleging its AI scoring systems penalised workers on medical leave during May layoffs. Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of using AI-powered systems that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who had taken medical
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The European Commission has exempted wearable technology from rules requiring batteries that users can remove and replace. The change clears the biggest obstacle to Meta’s latest smart glasses reaching the EU, Politico reports. The delegated act, adopted on Tuesday, adds six product categories to the exemption list. It covers
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Hinge founder Justin McLeod announced an $18 million fundraise for his new dating company, Overtone. McLeod stepped down from his CEO role at Hinge just last year, and Hinge owner Match Group — which also owns apps like Tinder and OkCupid — is helping to fund his new company, alongside FirstMark Capital
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Anthropic is known for its creative marketing, but the AI company may have been a little bit too creative when it conjured up its most recent advertisement. Titled “There’s hope in hard questions,” the company’s latest ad has been unsettling viewers with its weird imagery and doomer-ist tone.
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Apple is opening up its biggest-ever Siri overhaul to a broader audience with the release of the iOS 27 public beta, giving everyday users the chance to try out the new AI assistant ahead of its broader launch later this fall. The public beta marks the first time Apple has
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. A few years ago, I couldn't differentiate between the Oura Ring 3 and the Ultrahuman Ring Air. Both smart rings both held a similar position in the wearables market -- industry newbies with a novel design and insights
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. SpaceXAI’s Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users’ entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned
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Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by
