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Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots on the popular chat app. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) on Wednesdaysaidit had found enough cause in its ongoing investigation into whether Meta was abusing its dominant position in the market to offer […]

A group of writers, including Theranos whistleblower and “Bad Blood” author John Carreyrou, is filing a lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the companies of training their models on pirated copies of their books. If this sounds familiar, it’s because another set of authors already filed a class action suit against

The former Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution. After spending the last six years running Sunshine, a photo-sharing and contact-management startup with little success, the storied tech leader hasshutteredthe company to launchDazzle, a new startup focused on building the next generation of AI personal assistants. While

Amazon is expanding its AI-powered digital assistant Alexa+ with new capabilities. The company announced on Thursday that it’s adding four new integrations to the service that will allow the assistant to work withAngi,Expedia,Square, andYelpstarting in 2026. These additions allow customers to book hotels, get quotes for home services, and schedule salon appointments, among other things.

Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they’ve mostly been restricted to text. Digital avatar generation companyLemon Sliceis working to add a video layer to those chats with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image. Called Lemon Slice-2, the model

Even as OpenAI works to harden itsAtlas AI browseragainst cyberattacks, the company admits thatprompt injections, a type of attack that manipulates AI agents to follow malicious instructions often hidden in web pages or emails, is a risk that’s not going away any time soon — raising questions about how safely AI agents can operate on

Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer, for$4.75 billion in cashplus the assumption of the company’s debt. The acquisition, which was announced Monday, will help Alphabet expand its power generation capacity alongside new data centers without having to rely on local utilities that are struggling to

ChatGPT is releasing its own version of Spotify Wrapped. That is, the OpenAI-owned chatbot is now rolling out an annual review feature called “Your Year with ChatGPT” to eligible consumers in select markets, including the United States. Other English-speaking markets with access to the new offering include Canada, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand. At

The team atRetro, a photo-sharing appfor close friends and family, is experimenting with how generative AI can be put to more creative uses. To try out the latest, cutting-edge AI technologies, the team builta new app called Splat, which lets you turn any photo into a coloring book page for kids. As any parent will

This AI finds simple rules where humans see only chaos This new AI reveals simple laws hiding beneath the world’s most complex systems. Researchers at Duke University have created a new artificial intelligence framework designed to uncover clear, easy-to-understand rules behind some of the most complicated dynamics seen in nature and modern technology. The system