Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon
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Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Google has launched Dreambeans, an AI tool that transforms personal data from your Google account into AI-illustrated...

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xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity
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xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity

xAI is seeking to force four anonymous plaintiffs suing over alleged Grok-generated deepfake nudes to reveal their...

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Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 12B: An Encoder-Free Multimodal Model with Native audio that runs on a 16 GB laptop
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Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 12B: An Encoder-Free Multimodal Model with Native audio that runs on a 16 GB laptop

Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4 12B, an encoder-free multimodal model that natively processes vision and audio...

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Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering
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Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering

Ideogram has released version 4.0 of its text-to-image model as an open-weight model featuring native 2K resolution,...

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The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
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The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain

Nvidia's robotics lead Spencer Huang discusses a new humanoid robot that combines Chinese hardware with American...

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Trump's new executive order wants AI companies to voluntarily submit models for government safety reviews
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Trump's new executive order wants AI companies to voluntarily submit models for government safety reviews

The White House issued an executive order requiring government agencies to strengthen cyber defenses with AI tools and...

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As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise
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As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise

Google's new Gemini AI agent Spark demonstrates impressive capabilities by accessing personal information without...

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Trump’s EO Furthers Model Exclusivity, Harming Cyber Defenders
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Trump’s EO Furthers Model Exclusivity, Harming Cyber Defenders

A Trump Executive Order aims to strengthen relationships between AI model providers and the federal government, but...

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Safeguarding SaaS Success in the Changing AI Market
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Safeguarding SaaS Success in the Changing AI Market

The article discusses how SaaS companies must adapt to the AI market by integrating AI technologies into their...

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Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy
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Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy

Amazon's updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app...

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Amazon will show AI product images when you search for some reason
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Amazon will show AI product images when you search for some reason

Amazon is implementing AI-generated product images and visual search technology to help users discover relevant...

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This Is How Trump Finally Signed the AI Executive Order
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This Is How Trump Finally Signed the AI Executive Order

Donald Trump signed an AI executive order on Monday night after previously shelving the original version. The article...

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These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked
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These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked

Two former Goldman Sachs and Meta executives founded a startup building voice AI solutions for underserved markets in...

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Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation
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Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation

U.K. regulators are requiring Google to provide website publishers with a tool to opt out of generative AI search...

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Mythos Scaled to 150 Organizations in 15 Countries
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Mythos Scaled to 150 Organizations in 15 Countries

Mythos has expanded its rollout from a restricted beta to 150 organizations across 15 countries, though the service...

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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight
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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight

Microsoft announced new AI initiatives at its Build conference, including in-house reasoning models and AI agents,...

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Perplexity announces hybrid AI system that decides what runs locally or in the cloud
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Perplexity announces hybrid AI system that decides what runs locally or in the cloud

Perplexity has announced a hybrid AI orchestrator system that intelligently distributes tasks between local and...

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Meta’s AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally
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Meta’s AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally

Meta has launched its AI agent for WhatsApp Business globally, enabling businesses to use AI-powered automation on the...

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Introducing new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind

GPT-Rosalind introduces advanced capabilities for life sciences research, including enhanced biological reasoning,...

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