A network of Instagram accounts is using AI to steal content from human creators and deepfake their faces to make them look like they have Down syndrome. 404 Media was able to determine the accounts are linked because they reuse Instagram bios, videos, and in some cases link to the same OnlyFans com...

While most businesses are still implementing generative AI, a more profound revolution is rapidly approaching. [Artificial General Intelligence]( (AGI) will fundamentally transform how companies operate by 2027, creating unprecedented advantages for early adopters and existential threats for those w...

Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said agents [will “join the workforce” this year]( Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that agents [will replace certain knowledge work]( Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that Salesforce’s goal is to be “[the number one provider of digi...

Google co-founder Larry Page is building a new company called Dynatomics that’s focused on applying AI to product manufacturing, according to The Information.

Page is reportedly working with a small group of engineers on AI that can create “highly optimized” designs for objects and then have a fact...

Google is giving Sheets a Gemini-powered upgrade that is designed to help users analyze data faster and turn spreadsheets into charts using AI.

With this update, users can access Gemini’s capabilities to generate insights from their data, such as correlations, trends, outliers, and more. Users now ...

OpenAI announced on Thursday it is launching GPT-4.5, the much-anticipated AI model code-named Orion. GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest model to date, trained using more computing power and data than any of the company’s previous releases. Despite its size, OpenAI notes in a white paper that it does not c...

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Perplexity, the developer of an AI-powered search engine, [is raising a $50 million seed and pre-seed investment fund]( CNBC reported. Although the majority of the capital is coming from limited partners, Perplexity is using some of the capital it raised for the company’s growth to anchor the fund. ...

Anthropic’s next funding round is reportedly growing larger.

Anthropic, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, [is finalizing a $3.5 billion fundraising round]( that values the company at $61.5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Anthropic initially set out to raise $2 billion, but investors...

Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December.

According to the company’s pricing page, using Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second of video, which adds up to $30 per minute or $1,800 per hour. Google DeepMind researcher Jon Barron contra...

Humane announced on Tuesday that most of its assets have been acquired by HP for $116 million. The hardware startup is immediately discontinuing sales of its $499 AI Pins. Humane alerted customers who have already purchased the Pin that their devices will stop functioning before the end of the month...

https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-best-ai-free-encrypted-alternatives-to-google-docs

OpenAI is changing how it trains AI models to explicitly embrace “intellectual freedom … no matter how challenging or controversial a topic may be,” the company says in a new policy.

As a result, ChatGPT will eventually be able to answer more questions, offer more perspectives, and reduce the numbe...

Perplexity has become the latest AI company to release an in-depth research tool, with a new feature announced Friday.

Google unveiled a similar feature for its Gemini AI platform in December. Then OpenAI launched its own research agent earlier this month. All three companies even have given the fe...

A new startup is addressing the need for an all-in-one toolset built for people who want to grow, manage, and track their Bluesky presence and following. The subscription service [BlueSkyHunter]( which launched Friday, introduces an online dashboard that combines access to analytics and other tools ...

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UX and UI designers work closely with engineers throughout product development to build and implement design concepts and wireframes for functional user interfaces. Regular communication, feedback, and testing are required for the collaboration to work smoothly and deliver a user experience that ali...

Google’s Gemini AI chatbot can now tailor answers based on the contents of previous conversations, the company announced in a [blog post]( on Thursday. Gemini can summarize a previous conversation you’ve had with it, or recall info you shared in another conversation thread.

This means you won’t hav...

OpenAI has effectively canceled the release of o3, which was slated to be the company’s next major AI model, in favor of what CEO Sam Altman is calling a “simplified” product offering.

In a post on X on Wednesday, Altman said that in the coming months, OpenAI will release a model called GPT-5 that ...

The billionaire is leading a group of investors in the unsolicited offer, which complicates the start-up’s plan to raise more money.

A group of investors led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, according to two people familiar with th...

https://www.figma.com/blog/the-birth-of-inter/

The State of Emotional Wellbeing Report 2024 reveals the many emotional wellbeing issues affecting Indians and the efforts that are needed to tackle them.

Brain Rot, Doomscrolling, Digital Dementia, Internet-Induced ADHD, Phantom Vibration Syndrome—these are some of the buzzwords people frequentl...

When you get used to multiple monitors it feels impossible to work without them. But these devices are not as portable as your trusty MacBook, so you should probably learn how to use your iPad as a second screen.

Thanks to a feature called Sidecar, iPads can mirror your laptop’s screen or act as an...