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Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a "Gemini Calling" introductory screen in an APK teardown with examples that include "Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes…
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Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue"…
Meta and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest enterprise customers, are sharply cutting their use of Claude. Microsoft slashed the monthly per-employee budget in its cloud division from $100,000 to $10,000, while Meta…
Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with…
Reka AI's Rho-1 is a 19-billion-parameter omni-model that processes and generates text, images, video, and robot control actions in a single neural network. Trained on 320 H100 GPUs in about three months, it uses a…
Today, I’m talking with Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into tech and AI: intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and technology — it’s all there. I…
The new ads will begin to appear later this month in the U.S. only for now, and will feature products and services from an initial test group of advertisers.
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a German-English mixture-of-experts model with 78 billion parameters, about three billion of which are active per token. Over 21 percent of the training data is German. The model was…
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
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