Hollywood Pushes Back Against AI Actress Tilly Norwood
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…
Shell Unveils Thermal Fluid That Could Cut EV Charging Times to Under 10 Minutes
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…
China Silent Following Trump’s Announcement of TikTok Deal
Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s approval of a deal that could keep TikTok alive in the U.S., China has remained conspicuously quiet. This silence is notable, as Beijing still has…
China’s Xiaomi Is Planning a Next-Gen Phone Chip, but Won’t Release One Yearly Like Apple
Chinese technology giant Xiaomi is planning a new high-end chip for its smartphones, a top executive at the company told CNBC. However, unlike rival Apple, the company will not release…
Google Drive Gets AI-Powered Ransomware Detection
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…
OpenAI is Launching the Sora App, Its Own TikTok Competitor, Alongside the Sora 2 Model
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…
Facebook Adds Fan Challenges, Custom Badges for Creators
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…
Nothing Phones Now Let You Build Personalized Apps with AI
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…
There’s a Kindle Scribe with color, but you won’t like how much it costs
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 ‘Grokipedia’
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…
Older Z Flip cover screens just got a massive upgrade
The cover screens on older Samsung Galaxy Z Flip models are finally getting access to Google Gemini. The Z Flip 5 and 6, both of which share the same cover…
China’s DeepSeek Launches Next-Gen AI Model: Here’s What Makes It Different
Chinese startup DeepSeek, which sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy when it launched its first model R1 out of nowhere last year, has released a new experimental model, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp. The…
Opera Launches Its AI-Centric Neon Browser
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 Launches Claude Sonnet 4.5, Its Best AI Model for Coding
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…
OpenAI Takes on Google, Amazon with New Agentic Shopping System
ChatGPT users in the U.S. can now make purchases within conversations, as OpenAI launches its new “Instant Checkout” feature. The new tool is available to all ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and…
US Shutdown Looms After Trump and Democrats End Meeting Without a Deal
The U.S. is hurtling towards a government shutdown on Tuesday night, and there appears to be little appetite on either side of the partisan divide to avoid it. A last-ditch…
Trump Shares Apparent AI Video Promoting ‘Medbed’ Conspiracy Theory
President Donald Trump on Saturday shared an apparently artificially created video of himself promoting a cure-all bed with origins in conspiratorial corners of the internet. The video, which has since…
Oura CEO Talks Potential IPO and ‘Nonnegotiable’ Data Privacy
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Oura Health CEO Tom Hale did not discuss reports that the company is raising new funding that would value the health-tracking…
Microsoft Copilot Can Now Help With Your Messy Photo Collection
A new AI feature coming to Windows 11 called Auto-Categorization could help those who struggle to keep their photographs organized. The new tool will automatically detect and sort a photo…
YouTube to Allow Creators Banned for COVID-19, Election Misinformation to Apply for Reinstatement
Google-owned YouTube has announced that it will soon allow previously banned accounts to apply for reinstatement, rolling back a policy that had treated certain violations as permanent. This change applies…