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Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
Apple’s revamped Health app will calculate your ‘health age’ and readiness score
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
Apple has a new way to prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help
Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on." The data includes content licensed […]
Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia
OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striking demonstration of just how rapidly AI is transforming mathematics. But before it was even formally announced, the breakthrough had been complicated by the unusual […]
Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy
At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI "ambient listening" and users' privacy. It says the raw audio from the new […]
Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more capable than humans. So what happens when we can’t reliably control what these systems do?  On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan is joined by 
Apple’s new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn’t AI
Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn't manipulated by AI. A new feature, called "Reference Image," will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supposed to use the device's new camera sensor to "sign every pixel it sees." The iPhone 18 Pro and […]
Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.
Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant
Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.
Microsoft has new AI privacy rules for schools
Microsoft agreed to a set of safety and privacy principles for AI in schools a week after two major school systems announced a ban on student-facing AI. In a new agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the US, and its New York City affiliate the United Federation of […]
Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up
As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.
Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio
Amazon's Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor's mouth with "human-dubbed" audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it to "additional titles" in the future. In its announcement, Prime Video says it […]
Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’
A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build "superhuman systems" they cannot control. In a post on […]
Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers
Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.
Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market
Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.
OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone
OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem - which relates to the flow of liquid and […]
Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal
Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.
ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw something right inside ChatGPT and then tell ChatGPT how you want it to make an image […]
Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equity.