Wikipedia seals AI licensing pacts with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it turns 25
Marking its 25th year, Wikipedia struck licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity and Mistral AI, expanding a push to...
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Experts say kids risk developing romantic attachments to AI chatbots
A Senate hearing on youth screen time broadened into warnings that AI chatbots can foster emotional dependence and even romanticized...
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Cloudflare snaps up Human Native, an AI data marketplace
Cloudflare said it acquired Human Native, a U.K.-based marketplace that facilitates data transactions between AI developers and content creators, in...
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X moves to restrict Grok’s sexualized edits of real people amid legal scrutiny
Elon Musk’s X said it will block its Grok AI from generating sexualized edits of real people in jurisdictions where...
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California AG Probes xAI’s Grok Over Sexualized Deepfake Images
California Attorney General Rob Bonta opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI and its Grok image generator following reports that...
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Four ways AI is transforming science, healthcare, the workplace, and accountability
Microsoft is rolling out a four-part video series that spotlights how artificial intelligence is moving from lab demos to practical...
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Huawei’s shadow looms over China’s rush of AI-chip IPOs
China’s stock markets are seeing a flurry of listings from smaller AI-chip designers, but investors say the sector’s center of...
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CrowdStrike CEO warns AI agents can be erratic as company accelerates cybersecurity acquisitions
CrowdStrike is expanding its identity and AI-security capabilities with back-to-back deals for Seraphic Security and SGNL, following 2025 purchases of...
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Meta pares back VR, shutters studios as Zuckerberg doubles down on AI
Meta is curtailing its metaverse push and cutting more than 1,000 jobs—about 10% of its Reality Labs hardware and Horizon...
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AI supercharges individual researchers but risks narrowing the scope of science
Artificial intelligence is giving individual scientists a leg up—boosting paper output, citations and career progression—while potentially narrowing the terrain of...
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