
Tech Meme - 1 hour 5 min ago
Samantha Subin / CNBC : EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined — EssilorLuxottica's more than tripled its Meta artificial intelligence glasses sales last year, the Ray-Ban maker said on Wednesday in its fourth-quarter results.

NBC News - 1 hour 7 min ago
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced that it will ensure consumer electricity costs remain steady as it expands its data center footprint.

UPI - 3 hours 27 min ago
After nearly three years of development, Chile launched Latam-GPT, an open-source artificial intelligence model built with data from Latin America.

IGN - 4 hours 27 min ago
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski has railed against the addition of AI tools into creative processes, as he prepares to launch a new sci-fi comedy featuring a rogue artificial intelligence as its villain.

Tech Meme - 5 hours 50 min ago
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg : Google told advertisers that it is integrating direct shopping into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini — Google is adding a way for consumers to buy things while seeking artificial intelligence-powered answers on search and in its Gemini chatbot …...

IEEE Spectrum - 7 hours 40 min ago
Novel technology is often a double-edged sword. New capabilities come with new risks, and artificial intelligence is certainly no exception. AI used for human companionship, for instance, promises an ever-present digital friend in an increasingly lonely world. Chatbots dedicated to providing social support have grown to host millions of users, and they're now being embodied in physical companions. Researchers are just beginning to understand the nature of these interactions, but one essential...

IGN - 7 hours 40 min ago
Disco Elysium and Zero Parades developer ZA/UM has said that it will not use artificial intelligence in the creation of its RPGs.

Tech Meme - 7 hours 55 min ago
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg : Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from when it raised $350M in February 2025 — Apptronik, a fast-growing startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, has secured about $520 million …...

The Guardian - 9 hours 10 min ago
More young Americans are taking on side gigs to explore their passions and make extra cash while navigating an unstable job market Aashna Doshi, a software engineer at Google, is constantly monitoring her headspace. "This way I don't burn myself out," she said. "And I stay a lot more consistent with my podcast and content creation work." On top of her day job in the tech giant's security and artificial intelligence department, Doshi also publishes social media content about...

Deadline Hollywood - 9 hours 10 min ago
Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com. As we've noted before in Rendering, the big beasts […]...

The Guardian - 11 hours 10 min ago
US firm held talks with LSEG to push performance at time of reduced listings and AI concerns Business live latest updates The activist investor Elliott Management has built up a "significant" stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and is engaging with the company to drive its performance at a time of reduced listings and concerns about disruption from artificial intelligence. Elliott's exact shareholding in LSEG was unclear; the Financial Times, which first reported the stake...

The Next Web - 11 hours 46 min ago
We stand at one of history's most exhilarating crossroads. Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of work, business, and human potential at breathtaking speed. The very capabilities that make us most human, our creativity, our imagination, our ability to dream up what doesn't yet exist, are becoming our most valuable assets. This is not a story about humans versus machines. It's a story about human potential unleashed. It's about a future where technology handles the tedious...

The Guardian - 12 hours 6 min ago
Drop comes as AI firm Altruist launches service that helps advisers create personalised tax strategies Business live latest updates Wealth managers and price comparison sites have become the latest companies to be hit by fears that their businesses will be disrupted by new artificial intelligence innovations. Shares in UK wealth management firms tumbled on Wednesday morning, after the AI company Altruist Corp launched a service that it said helps advisers create personalised tax strategies by reading...

Digital Music News - 14 hours 10 min ago
Artificial intelligence musicmaking startup Mozart AI has scored a $6 million seed raise and confirmed topping 100,000 users. London-based Mozart AI reached out with word of that "oversubscribed" round and its aggressive expansion plans for the rest of 2026. As some will recall from this past July, when the company pulled down $730,000 (later […]...

Tech Meme - 16 hours 25 min ago
Reuters : Sources: ByteDance plans to produce at least 100,000 units of its in-house AI inference chip in 2026, and is in talks with Samsung to manufacture it — China's ByteDance is developing an artificial intelligence chip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) to manufacture it …...