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Snapchat is making its new “Imagine Lens,” the company’s first open prompt image-generation AI Lens, available to all users for free. The Lens was initially launched in September but only for paid subscribers. With the Lens, users can edit their own Snaps using custom prompts or generate their own. For instance, you could prompt the […]

AI labs are racing to build data centersas large as Manhattan,each costing billions of dollars and consuming as much energy as a small city. The effort is driven by a deep belief in “scaling” — the idea that adding more computing power to existing AI training methods will eventually yield superintelligent systems capable of performing

OpenAI reportedly asked the Raine family – whose 16-year-old son Adam Raine died by suicide after prolonged conversations with ChatGPT – for a full list of attendees from the teenager’s memorial, signaling that the AI firm may try to subpoena friends and family.   OpenAI also requested “all documents relating to memorial services or events

OpenAI unveiled its AI browser,ChatGPT Atlas, during a livestream on Tuesday. There are other AI browsers such asThe Browser Company’s Dia,Opera’s Neon,Perplexity’s Comet, and General Catalyst-backedStrawberry. OpenAI’s launch is notable because of the sheer scale of reaching potentially 800 million of its weekly ChatGPT users. For the company, the browser is much more about keeping

Amazonannouncedon Wednesday that it’s developing AI-powered smart glasses for its delivery drivers. The idea behind the glasses is to give delivery drivers a hand-free experience that reduces the need to keep looking between their phone, the package they’re delivering, and their surroundings. The e-commerce giant says the glasses will allow delivery drivers to scan packages,

Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday that the company will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab, according to areportfrom Axios. Meta declined to comment, but told TechCrunch that Axios’s reporting is accurate. As Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other companies race to build the most

General Motors said it plans to launch an automated driving system that will allow drivers to keep their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel in 2028, starting with the Cadillac Escalade IQ. The announcement, made Wednesday at its GM Forward event in New York City, comes a year afterTechCrunch first reportedthat the

General Motors will add a conversational AI assistant powered by Google Gemini to its cars, trucks, and SUVs starting next year, the U.S. automaker said Wednesday during an event in New York City.  The Google Gemini rollout is one of several tech-centric announcements made at the automaker’s GM Forward event, and it will be one

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Stanford’s tiny eye chip helps the blind see again A tiny wireless chip placed at the back of the eye, combined with a pair of advanced smart glasses, has partially restored vision to people suffering from an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration. In a clinical study led by Stanford Medicine and international collaborators, 27