The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional topics like climate change and global poverty, and the CEOs weren’t holding back. There was public criticism of trade policy, warnings about AI […]
In the next year, you’ll see changes to the electronics you use everyday. Your TV remote will never need the battery replaced, it’ll self charge off ambient light. Turn your phone over, it’ll trickle charge off indirect light. Your biometric watch will never need to be plugged in. And then by next year, you’ll see these panels on the exterior facades of buildings. In about five years, they’ll be incorporated into solar farms. All of this is enabled by the field of perovskite chemistry. Please me
The new feature lets you insert yourself into a meme in Google Photos.
Meta today said that it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps. The company mentioned that it is not abandoning its efforts but wants to develop an updated version of AI characters for teens.
The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his AI company over deepfake images of her on the internet. Ashley St. Clair filed her lawsuit Thursday in New York.
Grimes made a rare comment about the kids she shares with Elon Musk, giving a glimpse into their coparenting dynamic. Taking to X on Thursday, January 22, Grimes (real name Claire Elise Boucher) ...
Elon Musk said Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots could be available for public purchase by the end of 2027, saying the robots ...
Ryanair and Michael O'Leary have a long history of making provocative statements and insulting passengers as a promotional ...
If anyone would know if there are aliens among us, it would be me,” Musk said during the World Economic Forum on Thursday.
For decades, access to high-quality deal flow and sophisticated M&A infrastructure has been largely designed for well-connected investors and industry giants. Small businesses and independent founders, particularly those operating outside English-speaking markets, may often find the barriers even higher. Language, geography, and limited access to networks could mean that opportunity stops at the border. Amidst this trend, Flippa, a platform for buying and selling digital businesses, is rewr
A number of investors are competing for the opportunity to purchase the app, and if a deal were to go through, the platform's U.S. business could have its valuation soar to upward of $60 billion.
Started by an engineer who worked on the space shuttle program, and at Blue Origin, Space Beyond has a spot on a 2027 Falcon 9 flight.
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.
The business model behind these apps replicates the same dark patterns as mobile games.
The deal ends a six-year long political saga that started in 2020 when President Donald Trump tried to ban the app over national security concerns during his first term.
The visit comes as New Delhi prepares to host a major AI summit expected to draw top executives from Meta, Google, and Anthropic. This will be Altman's first visit to the country in nearly a year.
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Paris-based fintech Pennylane has just pulled off one of Europe’s most noteworthy funding rounds of the year, announcing €175 million in new capital to accelerate its push into artificial intelligence and expand its footprint across the continent. The round was led by growth investor TCV, with participation from Blackstone Growth and a group of existing backers that includes Sequoia Capital, DST Global, CapitalG and Meritech Capital. What makes this raise stand out isn’t just the size of the ch
In October 2021, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn interpreted the first movement of Beethoven’s 10th unfinished symphony, which was completed with the use of artificial intelligence. A team of computer scientists, music historians, musicologists, and composers developed the ‘Beethoven AI’ to analyze Beethoven’s music style and life, using the sketches he left behind of the 10th symphony, plus works from other composers that had a notable influence on his life, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, to gener
Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voice reads the text back. Functional, but not really conversational. That all changed in the past week with a rapid succession of powerful, fast, and more capable voice AI model releases from Nvidia, Inworld, FlashLabs, and Alibaba's Qwen team, combined with a massive talent acquisition and tech