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Report: OpenAI’s first device will be a portable speaker with a camera and other sensors
According to Bloomberg, OpenAI’s anticipated entry into the hardware market is slated to begin with a portable, screenless smart speaker. Here are the details. Although OpenAI first announced its entry into the hardware market in May 2025 alongside Jony Ive’s io Products, the subject had largely faded into the background before Apple’s trade secret lawsuit brought renewed attention to what the company might be building. Soon after the initial announcement, company iyO filed a…
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OpenAI shrugs, denies responsibility for trade secret theft with vague statements
OpenAI's second official statement concerning Apple's trade secret lawsuit says nothing and is so generic that only an AI could have generated a statement so bland and empty. Apple has alleged that OpenAI systematically recruited Apple employees that could help funnel secret information from within the company. Two individuals were specifically named , Tang Yew Tan, and Chang Liu. On Tuesday, Bloomberg shared OpenAI's latest statement on the matter. It's a little more official…
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OpenAI: No Evidence Apple's Trade Secret Complaint Has Merit
OpenAI says it is "not aware" of any evidence that Apple's allegations of trade secret theft have merit in a statement provided to Bloomberg. While we take these allegations seriously, we're not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit. We believe in fair competition and allowing people the freedom to work wherever they choose, and we're focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere. Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on…
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Google’s latest Pixel AI push keeps your data on your phone
Credit: Google TL;DR Google is shifting Pixel intelligence from the cloud to the device, enabling faster performance and offline functionality. Gemma 4 E2B for TPU is built specifically for Pixel’s Tensor chip, allowing apps to process requests locally. Pixel 10 gains practical offline capabilities, including trip planning, recipe suggestions, smart home controls, and Mobile Actions for hands-free device commands. Google’s been hard at work making Pixel phones smarter with AI, but its next big…
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Three publishers challenge Google over AI copyright infringement
It’s the latest in a barrage of efforts to win compensation from AI companies over training materials. A trio of publishers and one author are seeking a class action lawsuit against Google on claims that the tech company broke copyright law by using their works to train its Gemini AI. Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning and Elsevier are the plaintiff companies and writer Scott Turow is the individual behind this effort. "Google reproduced millions…
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OpenAI says it has seen no evidence supporting Apple’s trade secret theft claims
OpenAI has issued a new statement in reaction to Apple’s lawsuit accusing the company of trade secret theft. Here are the details. Last Friday, Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company and several former Apple employees of stealing confidential hardware information to advance OpenAI’s consumer-device ambitions. Shortly after Apple filed its lawsuit, OpenAI’s Director of Strategic Communications, Drew Pusateri, took to X to comment on the company’s behalf. In his post, he…
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Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta’s AI-fueled layoffs of 8,000 employees targeted workers with disabilities and those who took protected medical or family leaves, alleged a lawsuit filed by 26 employees who were selected for termination. Meta used internal AI tools to select employees for layoffs, according to the complaint filed yesterday by 26 “Doe” plaintiffs in US District Court for the Northern District of California. “Meta did not assemble the termination list through the considered judgment of managers…
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Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta
Apple is opening up its biggest-ever Siri overhaul to a broader audience with the release of the iOS 27 public beta, giving everyday users the chance to try out the new AI assistant ahead of its broader launch later this fall. The public beta marks the first time Apple has made its AI-powered Siri widely available beyond developers. With some 2.5 billion active devices worldwide, even if only a fraction of users install the…
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Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out
Anthropic is known for its creative marketing, but the AI company may have been a little bit too creative when it conjured up its most recent advertisement. Titled “There’s hope in hard questions,” the company’s latest ad has been unsettling viewers with its weird imagery and doomer-ist tone. The ad begins with a video of a burning house (not exactly a heartwarming start) before pivoting to a series of still images. These images include…
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SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage
Elon Musk says that all previously uploaded data will be deleted. Elon Musk says that all previously uploaded data will be deleted. SpaceXAI’s Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users’ entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published findings on Monday showing how the Grok Build CLI was packaging and uploading entire code repositories, “including files it was told…
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Spotify adds its own AI chatbot – here’s what you can do with it [Video]
Spotify is rolling out yet another new AI feature, this time giving listeners the ability to talk to the music streaming app like they would an AI chatbot, giving it commands/prompts or asking questions about media. Announced today, “Talk to Spotify” essentially puts a Gemini/ChatGPT-esque chatbot inside of Spotify’s homepage. Users can tap on this field to type or speak prompts to accomplish things such as creating playlists, saving songs, adding tracks to your…
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PrismML confirms it is in talks with Apple about AI model-shrinking tech
Five days after initial reports that there was an AI-model shrinking technology by PrismML suitable for iPhones, the company has confirmed it is talking to Apple over the use of its technology. One of the major problems with AI processing is the need to manage massive models that most normal computers and smartphones cannot easily handle alone. On July 9, the start-up PrismML surfaced with a solution to shrink down the models to a…
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PrismML releases Bonsai 27B, claiming first major AI model of its size fit for iPhone
PrismML is back in the news today after the AI startup’s CEO told CNBC that Apple is looking at the company’s technology. The company has also released its Bonsai 27B model that it says runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. PrismML first made headlines last week when The Information reported on the AI startup. That report included mention of PrismML holding meetings with Apple about “ways it could use its technology.” The report also…
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DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI
In an X post on Tuesday morning, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of a new regulatory body to oversee frontier model releases. Titled “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age,” the post makes the case for a “standards body” modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which could test frontier models and develop best practices for their release. “Initially, Frontier Labs would voluntarily share…
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Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
More than two dozen former employees claim Meta used AI to rank workers’ performance, but failed to exclude people on medical leave. More than two dozen former employees claim Meta used AI to rank workers’ performance, but failed to exclude people on medical leave. A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported earlier by…
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Google Images turns 25: celebrate with a 'dynamic gallery,' Nano Banana in AI Overviews
What you need to know Google Images celebrates 25 years, and it's rolling out a new "immersive, browseable gallery" in July. Users will find a gallery in Images that updates in real-time based on their interests, with an added option to save content into "Collections." AI Overviews receives Nano Banana, meaning users can ask the AI to generate images based on their prompt. This week marks 25 years of Google Images, a part of…
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DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO
DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is preparing for a 2027 IPO debut, but it could come as early as the end of this year as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at about a $71 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports. The news comes after the company raised $7 billion in funds just a month ago at around a $50 billion valuation in its first-ever outside funding round. The…
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Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI
Believe it or not, there was a time when searching the web for images was not possible. Twenty-five years ago, Google launched image search, and it's celebrating by looking back at its biggest visual milestones and refreshing the experience for today's searchers. The celebration also includes expanded AI because that's just how Google rolls in 2026. Google claims the impetus for image search a quarter-century ago was the green Versace dress Jennifer Lopez wore…
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Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer
In a recent interview, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said he can see a time in the future, perhaps only a year or two, when putting limits on Meta employees’ AI token spend will become necessary. “I think that you can imagine, at least in a year or two … that the burn rate of a strong engineer might be the same as their salary, or their cost of employment. And in that world, you’re…
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Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation
We're celebrating Google Images turning 25 with a look back at some major milestones — and introducing new ways to explore and create visual content. Your browser does not support the audio element. This week marks 25 years since we launched Google Images, beginning the evolution of Search from a text-based experience to one that allows you to visually explore the world. To celebrate this milestone, we’re introducing two new ways to help you…
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How I Turned AI to the Dark Side
Summary Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions. These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs revealing an industry-wide security problem. Kuszmar calls for slowing deployment, increasing transparency, and large-scale research into LLM safety before further integrating these systems into society. On a fine bright afternoon last fall, my colleague Matthew Gore-Kormanik (or Zigula, as he prefers to be known) and I decided to…
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Deals: Pixel 10 Pro up to $377 off, Z Fold 7 $625 off, OmniBook X Copilot+ PC $700 off, Nomad Find Hub card, more
Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by the ongoing and particularly notable deal on Google Pixel 10 Pro sitting at one of the best prices ever ($300 off), but here’s how to land one at up to $377 off. If you don’t care about the new upcoming models, the most affordable Galaxy Z Fold 7 is now up to $625 off, we have HP’s 2026 Intel Core Ultra X7-powered OmniBook X Copilot+ PC down…
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Parler à l’IA au bureau crée un tel brouhaha que le masque antibruit fait son apparition
Cela fait plusieurs mois que j’ai pris l’habitude de dicter mes articles et tests. Je m’inquiète même de mes enfants n’apprennent jamais à vraiment taper sur un clavier. Mon outil : Wispr Flow, une application qui transforme la parole en texte propre dans n’importe quel logiciel. Parler à son ordinateur devient une habitude de travail, et ça soulève un vrai problème de cohabitation au bureau. Ces applications de dictée dopées à l’IA se multiplient.…
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New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry
New York became the first state to pause all construction of massive new data centers after Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul announced a one-year moratorium on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The state-wide ban applies to data centers using 50 megawatts or more, officials told Reuters, and it won’t be lifted until the state figures out what “consistent standards” for responsible data center development in New York should look like. Across the US, calls to halt data…
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