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One of the new AI-powered launch features on the Pixel 9 series is Pixel Studio, an app that takes text prompts and turns them into images. It might end up being a fun little tool, but it can also go off the rails pretty easily in our experience, 9to5Google reported.
Waymo disclosed Tuesday that it’s now giving more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across its three main commercial markets in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix, TechCrunch reported. Those figures were shared by Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana in a social media post on X. The new 100,000 figure is double what the company has previously disclosed. Alphabet and
Advanced Micro Devices agreed to pay nearly $5 billion to ZT Systems, a designer of data-center equipment for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, bolstering the chip maker’s attack on Nvidia’s dominance in AI computation, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The search landscape is changing at an unprecedented pace, driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Major players like Google Anthrophic and Bing by Microsoft are integrating AI-powered summaries at the top of search results, fundamentally transforming how users interact with information online. But while this innovation promises enhanced user experiences, it also presents imminent challenges for businesses and creators struggling to maintain visibility in an increasingly crowded digital space. As AI-powered answers dominate search results, companies face an existential crisis between the need for visibility and the risk of becoming obsolete.
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it’s ending operations in Brazil, although the service will remain available to users in the country, TechCrunch reported. The announcement comes amidst a legal battle with Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who sought to block certain accounts on X as part of an investigation into election
Epic Games today officially launched a rival app for iOS in the European Union, marking the first time Apple’s own App Store has had to face a serious rival. The Epic Games Store will initially offer Epic’s games, including Fortnite, for users to download onto their iPhones, with plans to start onboarding third-party developers’ games beginning December, Wired reported. The
Recently revealed internal documents from Google were entered into evidence in a U.S. antitrust trial, exposing the company’s data strategies from seven years ago. These documents highlight Google's intense focus on user data collection, privacy concerns, and strategic weaknesses in the face of competition. The revelations, which include candid discussions about data usage for advertising and fears over Google's privacy,
Meta’s X rival Threads announced a number of new features today, including the ability to store multiple drafts, a way to rearrange columns on the desktop and insights into the user’s audience.
The latest edition of Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok debuted a new image generation tool on Wednesday that lacked most of the safety guardrails that have become standard within the artificial intelligence industry, The Guardian reported.
I’m not saying I prefer talking to Google’s Gemini Live over a real human. But I’m not not saying that either, Joanna Stern reported on The Wall Street Journal.
Apple presses Patreon to enforce its in-app purchase system, forcing creators to raise prices or absorb additional fees. This move highlights Apple's uneven application of App Store rules, which were previously criticized in antitrust cases. Now coerced into compliance, Patreon must transition all creators by 2025, despite the company's preference for a more gradual approach. Creators can avoid fees by
Apple has threatened to remove creator platform Patreon from the App Store if creators use unsupported third-party billing options or disable transactions on iOS, instead of using Apple’s own in-app purchasing system for Patreon’s subscriptions, TechCrunch reported. In a blog post and email to Patreon creators about upcoming changes to memberships in the iOS app, the company says it’s begun
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