Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

A new FTC lawsuit reveals how sophisticated subscription app operators can allegedly use shell companies and payment infrastructure to stay active on app stores despite mounting consumer complaints.

World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.

Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.

At the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that's hard to comprehend.

O Trump Phone não é o que parece e uma nova desmontagem da iFixit confirma o que muitos suspeitavam. Afinal, o smartphone é quase idêntico ao HTC U24 Pro, lançado em 2024.

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After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first reported back in February: the T1 Phone is an almost exact duplicate of the HTC U24 Pro.

iFixit partnered with NBC to get hold of the network's media sample of the Trump phone, along with a U24 Pro. They ran the phones through a CT scanner, tore them down to parts, and even put them back together into a functional Frankenstein phone with the U24 Pro's board inside the T1 Phone's chassis, confirming along the way that the two phones are functionally identical.

There are minor differences: The flash has been moved slightly, the speaker grille was …

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Backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.

If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.

A atualização anual da chamada "lista 1260H" alarga o escrutínio dos EUA a gigantes tecnológicos e industriais chineses não estatais que, em princípio, não teriam qualquer ligação ao setor da defesa. A medida surge menos de um mês após a cimeira de Trump em Pequim. A China prometeu retaliar.

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In November 2023, we reported on dubious claims made by marketing firm Cox Media Group (CMG) Local Solutions. The company advertised a service called Active Listening on a website that said, “It’s true. Your devices are listening to you” and claimed it could use “voice data” to help advertisers target ads to specific people.

Naturally, panic ensued. 404 Media, which initially spotted the website, for instance, wrote that the idea of smartphones listening to people to sell products “may finally be a reality."

A screenshot taken in 2023 from a webpage that CMG has since removed.

Credit: Ars Technica via CMG Local Solutions

The idea of a marketing firm using AI to “detect relevant conversations via smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices” in real time—according to a since-deleted CMG blog post from November 2023 (still viewable via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine)—has raised alarms.

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