Ever thought an AI could have an emotional breakdown? It might sound strange, but that is exactly what happened with Google’s chatbot Gemini recently, leaving many people both amused and a little ...
Major crypto player Genesis Global Capital suspended customer redemptions in its lending business on Wednesday, citing the sudden failure of crypto exchange FTX, while court papers showed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces legal action.
The AI IPO race is officially on. Anthropic grabbed an early lead on Monday, quietly filing for a public listing ahead of rival OpenAI.
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OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia’s latest artificial intelligence chips, and it has sought alternatives since last year, eight sources familiar with the matter said, potentially complicating the relationship between the two highest-profile players in the AI boom.
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Alphabet’s Google introduced on Wednesday a new lineup of Pixel smartphones and gadgets, intensifying its efforts to embed artificial intelligence across a wide ecosystem of products.
Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday in the crash of a small airplane in Washington state. He was 90.
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DeepSeek, the Chinese startup whose low-cost AI model stunned the world last year, launched on Friday a preview of a highly awaited new model adapted for Huawei chip technology, underlining China's growing autonomy in the sector.
Bitcoin took another large stride toward mainstream acceptance on Monday after billionaire Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) revealed it had bought $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency and would soon accept it as a form of payment for cars, sending the cryptocurrency shooting higher.
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The cryptocurrency industry has spent years clashing with Democratic President Joe Biden's administration over regulatory issues, but executives expect an easier ride from Washington, regardless of who wins the White House next week.
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Apple trades at 34 times 2026 earnings – well above Meta, Alphabet, Amazon.com and Microsoft. It’s odd if the iPhone maker is behind on AI. Yet the fog clears after looking at free cash flow. One implication is that investors doubt whether data center spending will bear fruit.
Have ads started popping up in your conversations with ChatGPT yet? More than 30 advertisers have run ads on ChatGPT this month, according to estimates from Sensor Tower. Unsurprisingly, a third of them are retailers — including Best Buy, Urban Outfitters, Target and Home Depot — looking to reach consumers inside chatbot conversations.
Reuters reporters gave Grok a series of prompts to determine whether and under what circumstances the chatbot would generate nonconsensual sexualized images.
Bill Mariano of Lighthouse writes that legal teams can successfully adopt AI by focusing on provable use cases that solve specific problems, marking incremental wins, rather than taking grand leaps with sweeping visions.
Technology shares around the world slid on Monday as a surge in popularity of a Chinese discount artificial intelligence model shook investors' faith in the AI sector's voracious demand for high-tech chips.
When accountants at mid-tier firm Moore Kingston Smith began using artificial intelligence to speed up their work, profit margins jumped.