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Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 18:41:42

Microsoft's Office 365 suite will soon incorporate AI models from Anthropic alongside existing OpenAI technology, The Information reported, ending years of exclusive reliance on OpenAI for generative AI features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The shift reportedly follows internal testing that revealed Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 model excels at specific Office tasks where OpenAI's models fall short, particularly in visual design and spreadsheet automation, according to sources fam

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Moderna CEO Responds to RFK Jr.’s Crusade Against the Covid-19 Vaccine

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-08 00:53:01

At the WIRED Health summit on Tuesday, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the recent changes to Covid-19 vaccine policy made by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are a “step backward.” Moderna is one of the manufacturers of mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines, and last month the company received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for an updated version of the shot. But as part of that approval, the FDA imposed new restrictions on who can receive the vaccine. Previous

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Jaguar Land Rover admits hackers may have taken data

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-08 21:43:57

Jaguar Land Rover admits hackers may have taken data The affected plants in the UK are not expected to restart until Thursday at the earliest and worldwide production of around 1,000 vehicles a day has been halted. Now, 11 days after the attack , it has conceded that some data has been impacted but declined to say exactly who the information pertained to, such as customers, suppliers or JLR itself. The company, owned by India's Tata Motors, initially said it did not believe any customer infor

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Midjourney Is in Major Trouble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-07 22:19:19

AI image generator Midjourney is in major trouble after being accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. According to documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery is suing the startup for "brazenly" infringing on its intellectual property by letting its users create AI-generated images and videos of its copyrighted characters — which, due to Warner Bros' immense catalog, include everything from the Batman franchise to Scooby-Doo to Bu

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AirPods Pro 3 have less overall battery life than AirPods Pro 2

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-08 19:44:12

The new AirPods Pro 3 have better battery life than AirPods Pro 2 on a single charge, with the buds lasting up to 2 hours longer on one charge. But here’s a curveball. The overall battery life of AirPods Pro 3 is actually less. Including the charging case, Apple says AirPods Pro 3 are good for 24 hours of listening time, whereas AirPods Pro 2 actually last for 30 hours. That’s a surprising 20% reduction … This means for one continuous session of music and podcast listening, AirPods Pro 3 are s

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5 business leaders on how to balance innovation with risk - and turn your ideas into action

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-10-08 22:29:00

Richard Drury/DigitalVision/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Bridging the gap between aspiration and achievement isn't easy. Smart business leaders focus on projects that deliver top-line growth. They support staff, work with peers, and encourage experimentation. For business leaders who want to embrace technological innovation, there are many potential risks, from wasting money on failed projects to falling behind faster-moving rival

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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 08:01:16

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OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 19:31:55

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How the new AirPods Pro compare to the rest of Apple’s AirPods lineup

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-10-08 22:11:35

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With their debut, the official AirPods lineup now looks a little different: the fourth-gen AirPods and their ANC counterpart remain the entry-level models, but now the AirPods Pro 3 are Apple’s most premium earbuds. The AirPods Max, meanwhile, continues to be the company’s only set of over-ears. Priced at $249, the new AirPods Pro 3 push into fitness territory with a built-in heart rate sensor to track calo

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Google Cloud chief details how search giant is making billions monetizing its AI products

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-09 02:04:52

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing conference held by the company in 2019. Google's cloud chief Thomas Kurian on Tuesday explained how the tech giant is already monetizing its various artificial intelligence services to generate revenue. "We've made billions using AI already," said Kurian, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference in San Francisco. Kurian said that Google Cloud's backlog of customer demand is growing faster than its reve

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Amazon's Zoox jumps into U.S. robotaxi race with Las Vegas launch

cnbc.com Salvador Rodriguez Annie Palmer 2025-10-09 02:47:06

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Five years after its splashy $1.3 billion acquisition of Zoox, Amazon has officially entered the U.S. robotaxi race, which to date has been dominated by Alphabet's Waymo. Zoox's first public launch kicks off Wednesday on the Las Vegas strip. The company is offering free rides from a few select locations, with plans to expand more broadly across the city in the coming months. Riders will eventually have to pay, but Zoox said it

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I think the iPhone Air is going to be a bigger hit than anyone expected – including Apple

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-09 00:35:23

It’s long been clear that the iPhone Air was going to be a beautiful device, but based on reactions so far, it seems that people are even more impressed than expected by the sleek look of the all-new iPhone. It’s usually the two Pro models that get all the love, but this year it seems all anyone wants to talk about is the iPhone Air … I said beforehand that I very much expected to be admiring the aesthetics of the new phone. I’m absolutely not the intended market for the device, but … I’m as

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AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-09 02:48:00

iweta0077/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much content as possible from websites while also extracting information. Now, several heavyweight publishers and tech companies -- Reddit, Yahoo, People, O'Reilly Media, Medium, and Ziff

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Bryan Fuller Wants Zendaya to Play Clarice Starling in ‘Hannibal’ Follow-Up

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-09 02:00:58

John Travolta battles an AI with a beef against reckless drivers, Uncle Fester gets his own Wednesday spinoff, and the Scary Movie franchise still sees fit to parody I Know What You Did Last Summer. Spoilers, ahoy! Ed Deadline reports that John Travolta, Crystal Reed, and Chet Hanks are attached to star in Ed, an artificial intelligence-themed sci-fi thriller from director Christopher J. Scott. The story is said to concern “a sentient AI chauffeur bot that escapes the lab and begins killing re

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California’s High-Speed Rail Fiasco Keeps Getting Worse

gizmodo.com Benton Graham 2025-10-09 02:35:07

Seventeen years ago, Californians bet on a grand vision of the future. They narrowly approved a $10 billion bond issue to build a high-speed rail line that would zip between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours. This technological marvel would slash emissions, revitalize the state’s Central Valley, and, with some financial help from the feds and private sector, provide the fast, efficient, and convenient travel Asia and Europe have long enjoyed. State officials promised to deliver

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Claude’s new AI file-creation feature ships with security risks built in

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 09:55:34

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a new file-creation feature for its Claude AI assistant that enables users to generate Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and other documents directly within conversations on the web interface and in the Claude desktop app. While the feature may be handy for Claude users, the company's support documentation also warns that it "may put your data at risk" and details how the AI assistant can be manipulated to transmit user data to external servers. The fe

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Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 02:00:03

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation. Announced Wednesday morning, the "Really Simply Licensing" (RSL) standard evolves robots.txt instructions by adding an automated licensing layer that's designed to block bots that don't fairly compensate creators for content. Free for any publisher to

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AI vs. MAGA: Populists alarmed by Trump’s embrace of AI, Big Tech

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 02:41:17

Flanked by Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives in the White House last week, Melania Trump hailed artificial intelligence as potentially “the greatest engine of progress in the history of the United States of America.” Less than a mile from the first lady, in a hotel ballroom packed with MAGA faithful, top Republican Josh Hawley had a different message. AI “threatens the common man’s liberty” and could even undermine the Republic itself, the senior US senator from Missouri said. “The pr

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Here's What to Know About Poland Shooting Down Russian Drones

wired.com Riccardo Piccolo 2025-10-09 02:58:37

Early Wednesday morning, Poland shot down several Russian drones that had violated its airspace during a massive strike against western Ukraine. The Polish military operation, confirmed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk through a social media message in the early morning hours, marks a turning point in Warsaw's involvement in the conflict that has affected the region for more than two and a half years. The Polish defense agency reported the presence of more than ten objects coming from Ukrainian air

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The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-09 00:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Ask someone their worst fears about AI, and you’ll find a few recurring topics — from near-term fears like AI tools replacing human workers and the loss of critical thinking to apocalyptic scenarios like AI-designed weapons of mass destruction and automated war. Most have one thing in common: a loss of human control. And the sy

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Grammarly can now fix your Spanish and French grammar

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-10-09 02:00:00

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For 16 years, a team of linguists carefully crafted and honed the grammar editing software Grammarly to match natural English language patterns. Now, the company is getting a big assist from AI to expand similar offerings to five more languages: Spanish, French, Por

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The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-09 02:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. A new licensing standard aims to let web publishers set the terms of how AI system developers use their work. On Wednesday, major brands like Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc. announced support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), an open content licensing standard that enables publishers to outline how bots should pay to scrape their site

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Grammarly now offers spelling and grammar check for five more languages

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-09 02:00:00

Grammarly built its reputation on being a tool for checking spelling, grammar, and writing tips in English. The company is now expanding the scope of these features to support five more languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Italian. The company said it will now suggest paragraph-level rewrites for tone, style, and flow for the new languages. Users writing in any of these five languages, as well as English, will also be able to translate text in-line in 19 languages. The multilingua

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AI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-09 02:00:00

Fabian Kamberi, CEO and co-founder of the Berlin-based AI gaming startup Born, thinks the current AI companions on the market are designed to be exploitative and geared towards isolating users through one-to-one relationships with AI chatbots. “It feels like it fuels the loneliness epidemic, instead of making it more fun and giving users the opportunity to make their lives better,” Kamberi told TechCrunch. The future of AI companions, he says, is about shared experiences that strengthen real-w

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Rendezvous Robotics exits stealth with $3M to build reconfigurable space infrastructure

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-09 02:00:00

For decades, engineers designing space structures have been constrained by the rocket fairing: only hardware that can be folded up to fit inside can go to orbit. This makes in-space assembly time intensive and expensive. The International Space Station, the largest single object humanity has built in space, was assembled over dozens of launches and cost over $100 billion. And, of course, there is no way to modify or alter the structure once it has been assembled. Rendezvous Robotics wants to c

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RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-10-09 02:07:26

In the wake of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement, the AI industry is coming to terms with its training data problem. There are as many as 40 other pending cases that seek damages for unlicensed data — including one that takes Midjourney to court for creating images of Superman. Without some kind of licensing system, AI companies could face an avalanche of copyright lawsuits that some worry will set the industry back permanently. Now, a group of technologists and web publishers has

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Uber will launch Blade helicopter rides next year through expanded Joby partnership

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-10-09 06:00:01

Uber is tackling a new form of ride sharing: helicopters. The ride hailing company on Wednesday said it will launch Blade helicopter rides on its app as soon as 2026 through its partnership with Joby Aviation , an electric air taxi maker. The announcement comes after Joby in August closed its $125 million acquisition of Blade, a helicopter and air transportation company. The deal did not include the company's medical organ transplant division. Blade has said it chartered at least 50,000 passen

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The Download: AI’s energy future

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-09 06:10:00

In May, MIT Technology Review published an unprecedented and comprehensive look at how much energy the AI industry uses—down to a single query. Our reporters and editors traced where AI’s carbon footprint stands now, and where it’s headed, as AI barrels towards billions of daily users. We’ve just produced a short video to accompany that investigation. You can read the original full story here, and check out—and share— the full video on YouTube here. AI is changing the grid. Could it help more

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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 18:01:16

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RFK Jr’s HHS Deploys ChatGPT for All Staff

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-09 06:20:45

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has thrown the Department of Health and Human Services into turmoil through a series of bizarre and idiotic policy decisions, and now, to make things better, he’s apparently forcing everybody who remains at the pivotal health agency to use a chatbot. That should sort everything out. 404 Media reports that HHS employees received an email on Tuesday entitled “AI Deployment,” which explained that ChatGPT would now be available to everybody at the agency. 404 writes that the d

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Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

Moderna CEO Responds to RFK Jr.’s Crusade Against the Covid-19 Vaccine

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California’s High-Speed Rail Fiasco Keeps Getting Worse

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Uber will launch Blade helicopter rides next year through expanded Joby partnership

The Download: AI’s energy future

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RFK Jr’s HHS Deploys ChatGPT for All Staff

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