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AI chatbot to be embedded in Google search
Google is introducing a new artificial intelligence (AI) mode that more firmly embeds chatbot capabilities into its search engine, aiming to give users the experience of having a conversation with an expert. The "AI Mode" was made available in the US on Tuesday, appearing as an option in Google's search bar. The change, unveiled at the company's annual developers conference in Mountain View, California, is part of the tech giant's push to remain competitive against ChatGPT
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Snapchat’s new AI chatbot is already raising alarms among teens and parents
Less than a few hours after Snapchat rolled out its My AI chatbot to all users last week, Lyndsi Lee, a mother from East Prairie, Missouri, told her 13-year-old daughter to stay away from the feature. “It’s a temporary solution until I know more about it and can set some healthy boundaries and guidelines,” said Lee, who works at a software company. She worries about how My AI presents itself to young users like her daughter on Snapchat. The feature is powered by
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Victims of explicit deepfakes will now be able to take legal action against people who create them
In recent years, people ranging from Taylor Swift and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to high school girls around the country have been victims of non-consensual, explicit deepfakes — images where a person’s face is superimposed on a nude body using artificial intelligence. Now, after months of outcry, there is finally a federal law criminalizing the sharing of those images. President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act in a ceremony at the White House on Monday. In
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Google Search, Facebook and the iPhone may not last forever. And Silicon Valley is finally admitting it
People aren’t friending each other as much on Facebook these days. The iPhone might not feel necessary in a decade. And Google searches on one of the world’s most popular smartphones are declining. Those were some of the unusually frank admissions from two separate antitrust trials against Meta and Google. It was a rare acknowledgement from tech leaders that the once-cutting edge products their companies were founded on could someday lose their relevance. Silicon Valley prides itself
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You can now book a chef or personal trainer while traveling with Airbnb
Nearly a decade ago, Airbnb envisioned being more than just an app to book a home for a vacation. Its latest redesign could be a major push toward becoming the kind of “end-to-end travel app,” that CEO Brian Chesky has said he wants to create. The online vacation home-rental marketplace has made efforts toward this goal in the past. It launched “Airbnb Experiences,” tours, classes and other activities that can be booked on its app; a travel magazi
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Apple boosts India's factory hopes - but a US-China deal could derail plans
ust as India showed flickers of progress toward its long-held dream of becoming the world's factory, Washington and Beijing announced a trade "reset" that could derail Delhi's ambitions to replace China as the global manufacturing hub. Last week, Trump's tariffs on China dropped overnight - from 145% to 30%, vs 27% for India - as the two sides thrashed out an agreement in Switzerland. As a result, there's a chance manufacturing investment that was moving from China to I
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OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode
In May, when OpenAI first demoed an eerily realistic, nearly real-time “advanced voice mode” for its AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT, the company said that the feature would roll out to paying ChatGPT users within a few weeks. Months later, OpenAI says that it needs more time. In a post on OpenAI’s official Discord server, OpenAI says that it had planned to start rolling out advanced Voice Mode in alpha to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, but that lingering
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ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all
You can now more easily use ChatGPT on your Mac computer. OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot is available to all macOS users, the company announced on Tuesday. The app was first announced ahead of Apple’s WWDC 2024 in June, where the companies jointly announced integrations between OpenAI’s chatbot and Apple’s operating systems for iPhone, iPad and Mac. On the latter platform, users can quickly call up ChatGPT by using the keyboard combination of Option + Space after installing
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Apple launches iPhone Mirroring on Mac in latest iOS and Mac betas
iPhone Mirroring, one of the more notable features arriving in Apple’s upcoming operating systems, is now available to developers testing the beta versions of iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. The latest beta releases include support for mirroring your iPhone directly on the Mac, so you can use your phone on your computer, including launching and running iPhone apps, and even moving files between the Mac and iPhone. First announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) earlier in
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US bans sale of Kaspersky software citing security risk from Russia
The U.S. government announced on Thursday that it is banning the sale of Kaspersky antivirus software in the country, and is asking Americans who use the software to switch to a different provider. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said it imposed the “first of its kind” ban, arguing that Kaspersky threatens U.S. national security and users’ privacy because the company is based in Russia. “Russia has shown it has the capacity, and even
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