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Tilly Norwood, a London-based actress with about 40,000 Instagram followers, is not real; she is an AI-generated character created by Xicoia, the AI division of the production company Particle6. Eline…

Google has laid off more than 100 employees in design-related roles, according to internal documents. The cuts, which took place earlier this week, affected staff in the cloud division’s “quantitative…

Oil and gas company Shell has developed a new product it hopes will make electric vehicle (EV) charging easier, unveiling a thermal management fluid it says can significantly reduce charging…

OpenAI has redefined what momentum and risk look like in the artificial intelligence arms race. In a rapid-fire series of announcements, the company unveiled partnerships involving staggering sums of money…

The Trump administration has announced a deal with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer that will allow patients to buy prescription drugs at discounted prices via a new federal government website called TrumpRx.…

The Walt Disney Company has sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI, warning the artificial intelligence startup to stop using copyrighted characters without authorization. A Disney spokesperson confirmed the…

The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The withdrawal comes after CNN’s…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday previewed a $500 million deal with Harvard University, following months of talks about a potential settlement. The proposed deal, which would restore federal funding to…

Google is adding new AI-powered ransomware detection for Google Drive on desktop. The new protection is trained on millions of real-world ransomware samples and is capable of identifying maliciously modified…

Spirit Airlines is making “massive progress” in its effort to revitalize the airline, according to its restructuring lawyer, Marshall Huebner. The struggling budget carrier has reached an agreement with some…

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the release of Sora 2, an audio and video generator that succeeds last year’s Sora. Along with the new model, the company also launched a linked…

YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit involving the suspension of President Donald Trump’s account following the U.S. Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. According to…

Facebook is rolling out new features that aim to bring fans closer to their favorite creators, with fan challenges and customized top fan badges. The fan challenges feature will allow…

A new AI tool for Nothing Phones will soon let you build your own apps, which can be added directly to a phone’s home screen. These “Essential Apps” are available…

President Donald Trump delivered a remarkable speech to military generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia, that critics fear was an attempt to recruit the armed forces to his political cause.…

Amazon is rounding out its Colorsoft collection with a new e-reader. The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which was unveiled at the company’s Devices & Services event in New York City, is…

Elon Musk plans to take on Wikipedia with his own rival encyclopedia site. On Tuesday, the Tesla CEO announced on X that his xAI startup is building Grokipedia, which he…

At Shona EPZ, a garment factory in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the future is uncertain for its workers as the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) is set to expire on…

Browser maker Opera has launched its AI-centric browser, Neon, which allows users to create apps through AI prompts and build repeatable prompts through a feature called “Cards.” With this move,…

Anthropic has launched a new frontier model called Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims offers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks. The company says Claude Sonnet 4.5 is capable of building…