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Jan 27 • 3 months ago

AI Overviews gets upgraded to Gemini 3 with a dash of AI Mode

AI Overviews may get it right more often with the move to Gemini 3. ...

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Jan 22 • 3 months ago

Google adds your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to enable "Personal Intelligence"

Personal Intelligence is optional and rolling out first to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers. ...

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Jan 17 • 4 months ago

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US. ...

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Jan 16 • 4 months ago

Wikipedia signs AI training deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon

Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI to paid deals. ...

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Jan 14 • 4 months ago

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

The feature will start with paid users only, and it's off by default. ...

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Jan 14 • 4 months ago

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans. ...

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Jan 14 • 4 months ago

The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”

“General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while ..." ...

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Jan 13 • 4 months ago

Google’s updated Veo model can make vertical videos from reference images with 4K upscaling

Google has also added the updated Veo tools to YouTube creator tools. ...

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Jan 12 • 4 months ago

UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship

Grok tests if UK can penalize platforms for sexualized deepfakes generated by AI. ...

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Jan 07 • 4 months ago

Dell’s XPS revival is a welcome reprieve from the “AI PC” fad

Dell moves from pushing "AI PCs" and back to what matters in laptops. ...

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Jan 05 • 4 months ago

Amazon Alexa+ released to the general public via an early access website

Amazon brings back browser-based Alexa but will eventually add a paywall. ...

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Dec 31 • 4 months ago

From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools. ...

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