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Character.AI’s plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series — short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with — on your phone. Unlike traditional microdrama services that
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Claude Cowork turned messy tasks into useful results. * It helped fix servers, sort PDFs, and review contracts. * Giving an AI that much access remains unsettling. I am not a naturally trusting person. So when Claude
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it
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Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s largest quantitative hedge funds, is doing something that would once have looked heretical for a firm built on code: it is hiring humans to pick stocks. The move, reported by Business Insider, places the fund alongside a small group of systematic managers
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Rubrik, the US data-security company, said it will invest more than $500m in Britain over the next five years and make London its headquarters for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The commitment, announced on Wednesday and worth about £375m, lands as governments across the region press companies to keep
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France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wields its grip on the market for artificial intelligence hardware. The company has long been tipped to face
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* NordVPN has launched Message Protection for Android users worldwide, adding SMS screening to its Call and Message Protection suite. * The tool checks incoming texts from unknown senders and pushes a notification when a message looks malicious or suspicious. * Flagged texts open in a safe view that stops links being tapped
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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. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Microdramas are such a rage these days that nearly every kind of company in the attention economy space — be they dedicated microdrama apps, social media giants (TikTok and Instagram) or streaming services (Peacock, Amazon Prime and India’s JioHotstar) — is building a product to tap the opportunity. Character.ai, which
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The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Venture, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch. This round follows a previous $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton. All told, the company has now raised $88 million. Ollama,
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Crystal ball: Following predictions that the memory crisis is going to kill off sub-$500 PCs, we're now hearing that budget smartphones could face the same fate. According to Omdia, global shipments
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* Most businesses are struggling to deploy agentic AI effectively, and legacy infrastructure is one of the key reasons, report finds * Google polled IT leaders, with 83% stating that infrastructure upgrades are needed * IT leaders are also concerned about the hidden costs of agentic AI, such as increased power consumption and
