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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

OpenAI created a lot of hype around hardware last year after itacquired former Apple design head Jony Ive’s startup io. While the company is tight-lipped about the upcoming product, its OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane said in anAxios-hosted panel at Davosthe AI startup is on track to announce its first hardware device in

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Adobe has beenaggressivelyaddingAI featuresto all its products in the last few years. The company is now adding more AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts. The company launchedAdobe Spaceslast year, which is a collection of files and

The ground beneath our feet holds so much energy that experts at the Department of Energy think geothermal powercould generate 60 gigawatts— or nearly 10% of U.S. electricity — by 2050.  Zanskarco-founder and CEO Carl Holland thinks that lofty number is too low, mostly because it’s discounting conventional geothermal’s potential. The DOE’s figures assume advances in

Language learning marketplacePreplyis now valued at $1.2 billion after raising a $150 million Series D round that marks a new chapter for the 14-year-old company, whose previous backers include Horizon Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Owl Ventures and Techstars Berlin. While Preply has been connecting language learners with tutors since 2013, it has now been EBITDA profitable

In 2025, consumers spent more money on non-game mobile apps than they did on games for the first time, according to the findings from market intelligence firmSensor Tower’sannual“State of Mobile” report. While this milestone had been seen in particular markets,like the U.S., orduring certain quarters, 2025 marked the first time it occurred globally. Worldwide, consumers

The human brain may work more like AI than anyone expected A new study suggests that the human brain understands spoken language through a stepwise process that closely resembles how advanced AI language models operate. By recording brain activity from people listening to a spoken story, researchers found that later stages of brain responses match

Industryreportsand the growth ofvoice model companiesin the Indian marketsuggest that there is a growing demand for voice AI solutions in the country. Voice is a popular medium for communication among people and businesses in India. That’s why enterprises and startups are eager to use voice AI to be more efficient at customer support, sales, customer