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Spotify isrolling outPrompted Playlists, a new AI playlist creation tool, to Premium subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. The feature, which wasoriginally tested in New Zealand, allows users to make a playlist by describing what they want to hear, in their own words. Prompted Playlists builds onan earlier AI playlist product, launched in 2024, which […]

Companies and governments are looking for tools to run AI locally in a a bid slash cloud infrastructure costs and build sovereign capability.Quadric, a chip-IP startup founded by veterans of early bitcoin mining firm 21E6, is trying to power that shift, scaling beyond automotive into laptops and industrial devices, with its on-device inference technology. Quadric

Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to buildsoftwareandhardwarefor kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees want to get over that hurdle with their generative AI-powered interactive app, Sparkli. Sparkli was founded last year by

Apple may be developing its own AI wearable, according toa reportpublished Wednesday by The Information. The device will be a pin that users can wear on their clothing, and that comes equipped with two cameras and three microphones, the report says. Should the rumored device come to market, it would mark another sign that the

A pattern is emerging in the AI infrastructure world: popular open-source tools are transforming into venture-backed startups worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The latest example isRadixArk, the commercial company behind SGLang, an increasingly popular tool that helps AI models run faster and cheaper. RadixArk was recently valued at about $400 million in a funding

Maybe you don’t need an AI smart ring to keep up with your to-dos.Doist, the company behind Todoist, a popular to-do list app that works across multiple devices, is launching its new AI-powered, “voice-to-tasks” feature:Todoist Ramble. The feature allows you to describe your tasks using natural language. True to its name, Ramble can take your

Apple’s long awaited Siri revamp could turn the smart assistant into a chatbot more akin to ChatGPT, according to areportfrom Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. His sources say that the Siri chatbot, which would be integrated into iOS 27, could be the focal point of Apple’s WWDC presentation in June. The Siri chatbot, internally codenamed “Campos,” will

When Claude’s Constitution was first published nearly three years ago, Anthropic’s co-founder, Jared Kaplan,described itas an “AI system [that] supervises itself, based on a specific list of constitutional principles.” Anthropic has said that it is these principles that guide “the model to take on the normative behavior described in the constitution” and, in so doing,

AI detection startupGPTZeroscanned all4,841 papersaccepted by the prestigious Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), which took place last month in San Diego. The company found 100 hallucinated citations across 51 papers that it confirmed as fake, the company tells TechCrunch.  Having a paper accepted by NeurIPS is a résumé-worthy achievement in the world of

YouTube Shorts viewers might soon see AI versions of their favorite creators when scrolling through their feeds. YouTube CEO Neal Mohanannouncedon Wednesday that creators will soon be able to make Shorts using their own likeness. “This year you’ll be able to create a Short using your own likeness, produce games with a simple text prompt, and experiment