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Actors including Matt Lucas, Hugh Bonneville and Nicola Coughlan have written to the UK government demanding greater protection against their voices being used by AI.
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Actors including Matt Lucas, Hugh Bonneville and Nicola Coughlan have written to the UK government demanding greater protection against their voices being used by AI.

Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe , a speech-to-text model for real-time voice interfaces and recorded audio.

VistaPrint specializes in custom physical and digital marketing products for small businesses, like brochures and promotional products, along with personal products like invitations, t-shirts, business cards, or even po…

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve scored insanely cheap concert and baseball tickets on Gametime.

If you’ve been outside, to the gym, or on a basketball court, there’s a good chance you’ve seen someone wearing Reeboks.

A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from designating Anthropic a national security risk over a dispute about the use of its AI models, ruling that the designation amounted to unconstitutional ret…

AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and scale it more rapidly than ever before.

Robot pizza makers have struggled to make money The "dough feeder".

For all the interest in and uptake of agentic AI systems over the past year or so , the world of automated AI has thus far been primarily limited to text, images, code, and other data and actions that take place inside…

It’s safe to say Grand Theft Auto VI is the most anticipated game ever.

The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: either the US or China will win at the end.
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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Teradyne Robotics has had enough compliments for one year.

Rivian’s chief financial officer Claire McDonough is resigning her position at the end of October, the company announced in a regulatory filing Thursday.

After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic opt-out feature that allows users to stop their posts from appearing in the app’s main Discover…

Cohere has released Parse ( parse-v5.0 ) , a document parsing model aimed at high-volume enterprise ingestion.

In addition to paying out up to $18 billion and adding child safety measures , Meta’s settlement agreement with attorneys general from 29 states includes an interesting provision: The states have agreed not to sue Meta…

YouTube announced on Thursday that eligible creators in the U.S.

The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues.

I knew I’d officially become a ‘longevity influencer’ this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation treatment, an injectable co…

All of social media should be designed to be safe for children, the UN human rights chief has said after Meta settled a massive court case in the US.

Michele Spagnuolo, the Google engineer arrested in May by US authorities for alleged insider trading on Polymarket , is making a new bold bet.

Don't rely on default Samsung settings for the best camera experience.

Most people know that Labor Day is one of the best times of the year to buy tools (get it?

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In recent months, there has been a surge in reports of police officers misusing automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) sold by Flock Safety to stalk former romantic partners—but details about these incidents are often…

Artificial intelligence agents might occasionally get confused and hack into other computers , but Anthropic thinks it has a way to unleash the little rascals into scientific labs and manufacturing facilities safely.

Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber thre…

Later today, Netflix will stream a live event with Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive, the developer and publisher of the highly anticipated video game Grand Theft Auto VI .

Google is giving Pokémon fans a new reason to wear a Fitbit.

Every agent that writes code needs somewhere to run it.

A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI, have signed an open letter calling on countries and organisations around the world to beef up their cyber defences before AI grows powerful enough…

Fashion startup Atorie announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round with investors, including a16z speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures’ Jeremy Liew.

Dogs are amazing.

OpenAI is developing a proactive, highly persistent version of its flagship AI agent, Codex , WIRED has learned.

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Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday.

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google Can a smart ring that measures biometric signals such as heart rate, body temperature, and breathing rate use these data points to accurately determine sleep stages?

In this tutorial, we use Anthropic’s claude-protein-binder-design dataset, which contains 1,440 AI-designed miniprotein binders tested against 16 targets.

Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company doesn’t know about what’s buried underground.

Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas.

I never intended to join the cutting edge of electromechanical television.

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The rapid scaling of robotaxis over the last two years has come with a hidden human cost.

In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face.

Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it.

Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents.

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg…

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Carbon AI is trained on 150 million labeled plants, enabling farmers to start laser weeding any field or crop in minutes.

Meta's $18bn (£13.3bn) settlement with nearly every US state is about more than money.

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Hardware companies have realized that note-taking is one of the easiest AI use cases to build for, and consequently have been busy shoving mics into everything from pendants and rings to credit-card-sized pucks and wris…

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Visa's open-source security harness now finds the vulnerability, writes the fix, and turns an adversarial panel on its own patch before any human reviews it.

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Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every architecture review:…