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The Apple Watch needs a better Siri more than the iPhone right now

Apple's developer conference could mark a turning point: the next Siri is expected to run on Google's Gemini, a notable shift for a company that long kept hardware and software tightly closed. The move has obvious implications for phones, but it may matter even more for

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I compared ChatGPT and Gemini — a single prompt tweak made a big difference

Contributor Lance Whitney recommends letting a chatbot craft the full image prompt from a short description. His example: request "a sunflower made of sheet metal in a pencil drawing style," then ask the AI to generate a complete prompt for [Nano Banana or ChatGPT Images]. That approach supplies

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A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3

Google is releasing Gemini 3, its most intelligent model yet, which combines advanced reasoning with stronger multimodal understanding. The model is rolling out across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, AI Studio, Vertex AI and other developer tools, while Gemini 3 Deep Think is entering safety testing before availability

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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

SpaceX disclosed in a regulatory filing that Google will pay $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to “approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components.” The deal mirrors the length and scope of a late-May agreement SpaceX struck with Anthropic, which

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ChatGPT wrote a Python tool to remove yellow backgrounds from PDFs

My wife, Denise, started singing with her church choir and needed to practice songs printed in booklets on yellow paper. She wanted to scan them to PDF, remove the yellow background and enlarge them for easier reading without wasting color ink. She also planned to use PlayScore 2 to play

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Experts react to Anthropic's proposal for an AI development pause

Anthropic leaders Marina Favaro and Jack Clark suggested in a blog post that the world’s leading AI labs create an option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development so societal structures and alignment research can catch up. They proposed a partnership modeled on how countries monitor nuclear proliferation

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Robot kicks child in stomach at Xinjiang event

A humanoid robot wearing a blue clown wig was recorded kicking a small child in the stomach during an event in Xinjiang, China. The blow caused the boy to double over while other children nearby laughed. The young boy was not seriously hurt, but his mother said staff were "

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Satya Nadella: AI agents need identities, permissions, and audits

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI agents should be treated like human employees, given identities, permissions, and ways to audit their work. The company is figuring out the tools and policies needed to oversee the many agents it has created. "You need to give them identities, you need to

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Three ways a smarter Siri could make HomePod more compelling

It's been three years since Apple released a smart speaker, and rivals such as Sonos, Bose, Denon and Amazon have used that gap to improve fidelity, whole-home audio and smart home integrations. HomePod still benefits from deep integration with Apple's phones, laptops and tablets, and Siri

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Apple could use Google's Gemini to build a smarter health coach

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference will spotlight software that will ship on the company's next products, and an expected Siri revamp could be central. Google’s Gemini is set to power the next Siri after a recent deal, a notable shift for a company that has long

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Anthropic urges option to slow frontier AI development

Researchers at The Anthropic Institute, the company's research arm, said in a blog post that AI is accelerating the creation of new models so quickly it could eventually help build its own successors. "We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to

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AI Could Soon Train and Improve Itself Anthropic Says

US-based AI firm Anthropic warns development is advancing at a pace that could soon let agents build, train and improve themselves without human input. Marina Favaro of the Anthropic Institute and co‑founder Jack Clark say agents can already run code, delegate hours of work to other agents, and could

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Mira Murati steps back into the spotlight, carefully

Mira Murati, who was often a background presence as OpenAI’s CTO and has been even less visible since starting Thinking Machines Lab, made her first major media appearance in about 18 months in San Francisco on Thursday. She said the company has spent the last year and a half

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Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky plans to back a new AI lab after growing frustrated with his role as an AI kingmaker. The move, confirmed by a person familiar with the situation, places him among Silicon Valley figures dissatisfied with models coming from the frontier labs. Airbnb has adopted AI coding

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AI-refined assets are killing the vibe around 2026’s cozy hits

Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! climbed Twitch charts this spring after players discovered its slow, methodical loop of picking up and organizing 3,072 books across a fantastical library. The game, made by a two-person indie team called ArtRising, adds magical abilities that speed the work and has inspired

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Start building with Gemini 3 Pro

Google is launching Gemini 3 Pro, described as its most intelligent model, to help developers and “vibe coders” bring ideas to life. Built on state-of-the-art reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro delivers stronger results across major AI benchmarks than previous versions and surpasses 2.5 Pro at coding and agentic workflows. The

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Introducing Nano Banana Pro

Google DeepMind has introduced Nano Banana Pro, a new image-generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro. The model is aimed at producing accurate visuals and rendering legible text in multiple languages. Leveraging Gemini 3 Pro’s reasoning and real-world knowledge, Nano Banana Pro can pull in real-time information

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How we’re bringing AI image verification to the Gemini app

Google is adding an AI image verification feature to the Gemini app that lets users upload images and ask whether they were created or edited using Google AI. Gemini checks for the SynthID digital watermark and uses its own reasoning to give more context about the content. SynthID, introduced in

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I tried Google Drive's new AI cleanup tool — here’s the result

I'm an Apple person: I've owned an iPhone since 2007 and a Mac longer than that, and I pay $10 a month for the 2TB iCloud+ plan with 488GB of data and nearly 40,000 photos. At the same time, after 14 years of using Google

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What to expect from WWDC 2026: Siri revamp and Apple Intelligence updates

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, kicks off Monday at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. The event will stream live via the Apple Developer app, Apple’s website and the Apple Developer YouTube channel. The headline is a major AI upgrade to Siri, transforming it into

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio improves live voice agents and translation

Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio has been updated to improve live voice agents and real-time translation. The model now delivers sharper function calling, more reliable instruction following and smoother multi-turn conversations. It is rolling out across Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and into Gemini Live and Search Live. A

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Should You Outsource Your Morning Routine to a Chatbot?

“I let A.I. decide my morning routine — here’s how it’s going,” the influencer Grace Lemire tells the camera, yawning and stretching. She inputs parameters into the Anthropic chatbot Claude — she calls her version Claudia — and it replies with a schedule: 7 — wake up; 7:15 — skincare &

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DeepMind CEO says we have little time to prepare for a 'new human era'

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, said a more advanced AI — artificial general intelligence, able to perform cognitive tasks at or beyond human levels — is a few years away. "Maybe 2030, plus or minus a year," he said, calling it "such an enormous transformative technology; it'

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Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed

Gemini 3 Flash is a fast, cost-effective model that combines Gemini 3’s Pro-grade reasoning with Flash-level latency, efficiency and lower cost. The release expands the Gemini 3 family to make next-generation intelligence accessible across products, retaining frontier performance on complex reasoning, multimodal understanding and agentic workflows. The model is

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Anthropic: 67% of Banned Accounts Used AI in Cyberattacks

Anthropic found that more than two-thirds of accounts it banned for policy violations between March 2025 and March 2026 were used to help prepare cyberattacks, including writing malware. Of 832 accounts examined, 560 fell into that category. Most of the AI use occurred in the preparation phase, but the technology