Court lets mother sue Google, Character.ai over Daenerys Targaryen chatbot's role in son's death
What just happened? A judge has ruled that the lawsuit against Google and Character.ai over claims the latter's chatbot caused a 14-year-old's suicide can go ahead. The boy's mother, who brought the suit, says her son became addicted to the service and emotionally attached to a chatbot based on the personality of Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen.
OpenAI bets big on hardware with $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive's startup
Ive says current AI hardware like the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 are "very poor products"
Google launches AI Ultra at $250, reshaping expectations for top-tier AI
Now you get YouTube Premium bundled into your expensive AI subscription
Gmail's smart replies will mimic your writing style by analyzing your emails and Google Drive files
Machines talking to machines
In brief: A future in which generative AIs write emails back and forth to each other on our behalf has moved a little closer. Google is improving Gemini's smart replies, making them not only longer, but also more personalized by analyzing your previous emails and Drive files.
Survey science is in crisis: facing the dual threat of AI agents and falling human participation
Bots are taking your surveys – and skewing the results
Windows 11 File Explorer keeps getting worse, now with added AI
"AI actions" added to the Windows context menu
Dell embraces silicon diversity in AI server hardware at Dell Technologies World
Also, Dell launches world's first PC with discrete Qualcomm AI accelerator
Nvidia NVLink Fusion delivers 14x more bandwidth than PCIe Gen5 for AI data centers
A performing computing fabric that's essential in Nvidia's plans for AI factories
Fortnite's AI-generated Darth Vader voice sparks SAG-AFTRA legal complaint
It's not because of the swearing and slurs
China launches the first 12 satellites of a massive computing constellation in space
Edge computing in Earth's orbit no longer just a dream - for China, at least
Microsoft Build 2025: From chatbots to digital coworkers, and the "agentic" web
AI agents take center stage in Microsoft's vision for the future
Six weeks on, Amazon Alexa+ shows few signs of public adoption
"Alexa, do you have any users?"
Sam Altman defends Trump's AI chip deals with UAE and Saudi Arabia, calls critics "naïve"
In exchange, the Gulf nations have pledged to invest billions in the US
OpenAI launches Codex, a new AI coding agent for software development
Cisco, Temporal, Superhuman, and Kodiak are among the first companies to test Codex
Microsoft's cringey ad boasts that top Copilot+ PCs are 58% faster than the discontinued, year-old MacBook Air M3
Talk about punching down
Facepalm: It's been nearly 20 years since Apple launched the Microsoft-mocking "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials, and the two companies continue to take shots at each other in their respective ads. The latest from the Redmond giant claims that top Copilot+ PCs are more than 50% faster than a Mac – specifically, the now-discontinued MacBook Air M3 that launched in March 2024.
Student demands $8,000 refund after catching professor using ChatGPT in class materials
A hot potato: Recent reports suggest that students' use of generative AI to cheat on school assignments is approaching endemic levels. While many worry that tools like ChatGPT erode young people's critical thinking skills, some students have also caught teachers using the same tools, often with unsatisfactory results.
Walmart prepares for a future where AI agents do the shopping
Retailers are racing to adapt as AI changes shopping habits
Woman divorces husband after ChatGPT reads his coffee grounds and predicts affair
ChatGPT: Hogwarts' new professor of Divination
Microsoft slashes 6,000 positions globally amid AI spending spree
Microsoft: thousands of jobs cut, billions spent on AI
Apple will use AI and user data in iOS 19 to extend iPhone battery life
Apple will showcase iOS 19 at WWDC next month, biggest UI redesign since iOS 7
YouTube cracks down harder on fake movie trailer channels with new demonetizations
Don't expect a lot of sympathy
Klarna is hiring humans again as AI replacements offer "lower quality" output
Klarna's CEO loves cheaper-than-human AI, but customers aren't as keen
"Prompt engineering" is no longer a job, but a skill
The quick rise - and quicker fade - of prompt engineers
Google adds on-device AI to Chrome to catch scams in real time
GenAI also helps Android apps and mobile search combat scam campaigns