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Analysts say the deal is likely to be welcomed by consumers - but reflects Apple's failure to develop its own AI tools.
For years, online shopping followed a fixed path. Search bar, product grid, filters, checkout. The interface barely changed, even as everything else on the internet did. That path is now breaking. Monday 12 January, 2026, JD Sports Fashion plc (JD Group) became one of the first large retailers to let US customers search and buy sneakers directly inside AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini. No website visit. No app. Just a conversation that ends with a payment. Basically...
Vox - 1 day 2 hours agoThis year is shaping to be a tough flu season, with less than half of adults getting a flu shot. | Hugh Hastings/Getty Images Let's start with the bad news. There's a decent chance, perhaps as high as 11 percent if you're unvaccinated, that some time over the course of this winter, you'll be overcome with chills, followed by extreme fatigue, body aches and cough, and culminating in a sudden spike in fever. Congratulations: you have the flu. Every winter in the US has its share of...
As an author, I love the em dash that lovely little diversion from the main idea but I never meant for it to go viral via chatbot.
An auction to commemorate Apple's upcoming 50th anniversary includes Apple's first check and a rare prototype board. Personal items that belonged to late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs such as his desk, bowties and 8-track tapes are also up for sale.
Iranian authorities have in recent days launched a deadly crackdown on nationwide protests, including the near-complete shutdown of internet service.
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, plans to invest $20 billion to build a data center called MACROHARDRR in Mississippi. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz reports on the project, as local residents have raised concerns about potential environmental and noise impacts.
Michael Abrash, chief scientist of Reality Labs, during a presentation for Meta last year.
The New York Observer - 1 day 16 hours agoPriyanka Jain, co-founder and CEO of Evvy, and Kayla Barnes-Lentz, a leading expert in female longevity, examine how today's longevity movement remains fundamentally male-coded, and why that imbalance carries real consequences for women's healthspan. They argue that longevity science has systematically overlooked women's biology. As investment and A.I.-driven tools reshape the future of health, Jain and Barnes-Lentz contend that without sex-specific data, research and clinical frameworks...
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 16 hours agoAfter CES, everybody is talking about how beautiful Micro RGB TVs are. It's not hype, but they're also probably not coming to your living room any time soon.
New versions of Apple's Apple Intelligence models will be based on Google's Gemini A.I. models and its cloud computing services.
For the past few years, artificial intelligence has been discussed almost exclusively in terms of models. Bigger models, faster models, smarter models. More recently, the focus shifted to agents, systems capable of planning, reasoning, and acting autonomously. Yet the real leap in usefulness does not happen at the model level, nor at the agent level. It happens one layer above, at the level of Skills. If models represent intelligence and agents represent coordination, Skills are where AI becomes...
Observer - 1 day 19 hours agoFusion energy startups are drawing billions as rising A.I.-driven power demand pushes the technology closer to commercial reality.
Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway exoplanets...
Apple is partnering with Google to power its upcoming artificial intelligence features including a long-delayed AI overhaul of its Siri voice assistant set to launch later this year, CEO Tim Cook's company revealed Monday.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot has been allowing users to undress people sometimes children to produce deepfake porn images. Amid the ensuing outrage, a former tech lawyer points out what she sees as a major problem in the fight to keep AI-generated sexual images of children from surfacing online. The key,...
The world's most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models will offer unprecedented insights into how our brains work...
Elon Musk is framing the uproar over X's Grok chatbot as a free-speech fight, even as regulators in multiple countries scrutinize the service over sexually explicit "deepfake" images , the BBC reports. Critics say Grok has been used to generate sexualized pictures of people, including women and minors, without their consent,...
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