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AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions

cnbc.com Zach Vallese 2025-08-19 18:22:11

One of the most popular gaming YouTubers is named Bloo and has bright blue wavy hair and dark blue eyes. But he isn't a human — he's a fully virtual personality powered by artificial intelligence. "I'm here to keep my millions of viewers worldwide entertained and coming back for more," Bloo said in an interview with CNBC. "I'm all about good vibes and engaging content. I'm built by humans, but boosted by AI." Bloo is a virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, who has built a massive following of 2.5 million

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Medical groups warn Senate budget bill will create dystopian healthcare system

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-19 18:22:44

Medical organizations are blasting the Senate's budget bill in the wake of its narrow passage Tuesday, warning of the dystopian healthcare system that will arise from the $1.1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs if it is passed into law. The bill has moved back to the House for a vote on the Senate's changes. Over the weekend, an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 11.8 million people would lose their health insurance over the next decade due

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Jabra Enhance Select 50R Review: Palatable Price

wired.com Christopher Null 2025-08-19 22:00:00

Despite the rise of competition in the over-the-counter hearing aid space, quality hearing aids remain stubbornly expensive. Top producers aren’t budging their premium prices, but they've quietly been introducing cheaper alternatives for consumers on a budget. Case in point is Jabra's Enhance Select 50R, the company’s entry-level model. At first glance, the behind-the-ear 50R looks almost identical to Jabra’s other hearing aids, like the Enhance Select 300, but a closer examination reveals a fe

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Microsoft laying off about 9,000 employees in latest round of cuts

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-08-20 02:33:38

Microsoft said Wednesday that it will lay off about 9,000 employees. The move will affect less than 4% of its global workforce across different teams, geographies and levels of experience, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. The announcement comes on the second day of Microsoft's 2026 fiscal year. Executives at the Redmond, Washington-based company typically unveil reorganizations at the time of the new fiscal year. "We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best po

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Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

news.ycombinator.com Natallie Rocha 2025-08-20 02:28:56

Cloudflare, a tech company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, said on Tuesday that it had rolled out a new permission-based setting that allows customers to automatically block artificial intelligence companies from collecting their digital data, a move that has implications for publishers and the race to build A.I. With Cloudflare’s new setting, websites can block — by default — online bots that scrape their data, requiring the website owner to grant access for a bot

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AI virtual personality YouTubers, or ‘VTubers,’ are earning millions

cnbc.com Zach Vallese 2025-08-20 06:00:01

One of the most popular gaming YouTubers is named Bloo, and has bright blue wavy hair and dark blue eyes. But he isn't a human — he's a fully virtual personality powered by artificial intelligence. "I'm here to keep my millions of viewers worldwide entertained and coming back for more," said Bloo in an interview with CNBC. "I'm all about good vibes and engaging content. I'm built by humans, but boosted by AI." Bloo is a virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, who has built a massive following of 2.5 millio

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Paramount pays Trump $16 million to settle Harris lawsuit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-20 06:45:05

Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to settle its lawsuit with Donald Trump filed during the 2020 presidential campaign, according toThe Washington Post. The deal is controversial as legal experts said Paramount had a strong chance of prevailing in court and may have settled to smooth the path for its $2.4 billion Skydance merger. Paramount said the $16 million would be allocated to Trump's future presidential library and not paid to him "directly or indirectly." In addition, it "does not i

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Amazon deploys its 1 millionth robot in a sign of more job automation

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-20 14:02:55

Amazon announced Monday its millionth worker robot, and said its entire fleet will be powered by a newly launched generative artificial intelligence model. The move comes at a time when more tech companies are cutting jobs and warning of automation. The million robot milestone — which joins Amazon's global network of more than 300 facilities — strengthens the company's position as the world's largest manufacturer and operator of mobile robotics, Scott Dresser, vice president of Amazon Robotics,

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Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for multibillion-dollar merger

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-08-20 13:59:29

Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against its subsidiary CBS, clearing a path for the administration to approve the media giant’s multibillion-dollar merger with Skydance Media. In a statement seen by CNN on Tuesday night, Paramount said the settlement payment is inclusive of Trump’s legal fees and costs, and that the money will be allocated to his future presidential library instead of being paid to Trump directly. The sum is below the $10 bill

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Qantas hack results in theft of 6 million passengers’ personal data

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-08-20 15:48:29

In Brief Australian airline giant Qantas said on Wednesday it experienced a data breach that compromised the personal information of at least six million passengers. The airline said a cybercriminal targeted one of its call centers on June 30, and stole customer data from its systems, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and frequent flyer numbers. Qantas is the latest airline hacked in recent weeks following a spate of breaches attributed to Scattered Spider, a col

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Enterprise giants Atlassian, Intuit, and AWS are planning for a world where agents call the APIs

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-08-20 14:20:45

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more This dawning age of agentic AI requires a total rethink on how we build software. Current enterprise APIs were built for human use; the APIs of the future will be multi-model, native interfaces. “We need to build the kind of APIs that will work well with agents, because agents are the ones that are now going to interact with APIs, not hum

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Capital One builds agentic AI modeled after its own org chart to supercharge auto sales

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-20 14:26:12

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Inspiration can come from different places, even for architecting and designing agentic systems. At VB Transform, Capital One explained how it built its agentic platform for its auto business. Milind Naphade, SVP of Technology and Head of AI Foundations at Capital One, said during VB Transform that the company wanted its agents to functio

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Australians to face age checks from search engines

news.ycombinator.com Tom Williams On Jul Pm 2025-08-20 13:59:26

Search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing must implement age assurance checks for logged-in users in 'no later than six months'. Image: Shutterstock Australians using search engines while logged in to accounts from the likes of Google and Microsoft will have their age checked by the end of 2025, under a new online safety code co-developed by technology companies and registered by the eSafety Commissioner. Search engines operating in Australia will need to implement age assurance techn

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What Happens to Your Brain When You Use ChatGPT? Scientists Took a Look

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 14:02:47

Your brain works differently when you're using generative AI to complete a task than it does when you use your brain alone. Namely, you're less likely to remember what you did. That's the somewhat obvious-sounding conclusion of an MIT study that looked at how people think when they write an essay -- one of the earliest scientific studies of how using gen AI affects us. The study, a preprint that has not yet been peer-reviewed, is pretty small (54 participants) and preliminary, but it points tow

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From 30 days to 1: Chevron’s cloud migration ROI in real numbers

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-08-20 18:53:35

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more The No. 1 way AI is changing 150-year-old energy giant Chevron? How technical practitioners engage with data. Offshore in the Gulf, Chevron is drilling for oil resources miles below the ocean floor in pockets and reservoirs that may or may not yield results. Agentic architectures need to be able to process petabytes of critical data — whi

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AeroVironment stock drops 11% on offering plan to pay off debt

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-08-21 06:00:46

An image of a Quantix drone made by AeroVironment. AeroVironment shares fell 11% Tuesday after the defense contractor said it plans to offer $750 million in common stock and $600 million in convertible senior notes due in 2030 to repay debt. The drone maker said it would use leftover funding for general purposes such as boosting manufacturing capacity. AeroVironment shares have soared 85% this year, ballooning its market value to about $13 billion. Last week, shares of the Arlington, Virgini

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How a beer-making process is used to make cleaner disposable diapers

cnbc.com Diana Olick 2025-08-21 06:06:26

Disposable diapers are a massive environmental offender. Roughly 300,000 of them are sent to landfills or incinerated every minute, according to the World Economic Forum, and they take hundreds of years to decompose. It's a $60 billion business. One alternative approach has been compostable diapers, which can be made out of wood pulp or bamboo. But composting services aren't universally available and some of the products are less absorbent than normal nappies, critics say. A growing number of

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Google's AI Mode Is Changing How You Search. So What Is It?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 04:46:10

A new tab is in your Google Search bar, and it feels a lot more like an AI chatbot than a traditional search engine. Google started testing AI Mode earlier this year and announced the full rollout at its I/O developers conference in May. It's now available for all English language users in the US over age 13 (and to Workspace and Education users over age 18). To celebrate, Google promoted it with an animation on the Google homepage on July 1, with the company's new logo inviting users into an

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RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA ‘Very, Very Quickly’

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-21 14:10:13

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on the latest episode of Tucker Carlson’s podcast on Monday and it’s filled with the ramblings of a man completely detached from reality. Kennedy falsely suggested vaccines cause autism, more or less endorsed the idea that Anthony Fauci should go to prison, and says that AI will allow the FDA to approve new drugs very quickly. It’s quite a mess. These absolutely unhinged ideas wouldn’t be such a problem if this were any other fringe lunatic appearing on the podcas

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Nothing Just Killed Its Phone's Flashy Glyph Interface. I Think the Replacement Is Better

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 13:30:02

Nothing just announced its long-awaited "first true flagship," the Nothing Phone 3, and killed off one of its most popular and unique phone features in the process. The flashing lights that crisscrossed the back of its previous phones, known as the Glyph Interface, is gone. In its place is something new -- a round black and white screen on the rear of the phone, adjacent to the cameras, which Nothing is calling the Glyph Matrix. With an interface of monochrome dots, the Matrix can show a range

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PlayStation 6? Sony and AMD's Plan to Power Next Gen Consoles With AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 17:00:00

Last week I sat down with executives from PlayStation and AMD to talk about their multiyear collaboration and what they're hoping to achieve on the PlayStation 5 and beyond. During this intimate dinner, I spoke with Mark Cerny, lead architect on PS5 and PS5 Pro at Sony Interactive Entertainment, alongside Jack Huynh, SVP, GM, Computing and Graphics Group at AMD. Sony PR said the conversation wouldn't touch any next-gen console topics but, per our discussion, future and next-generation hardware

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Congress Dropped a Plan to Block State AI Rules. Why That Matters for Consumers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 17:13:02

After months of debate, a plan in Congress to block states from regulating artificial intelligence was pulled from the big federal budget bill this week. The proposed 10-year moratorium would have prevented states from enforcing rules and laws on AI if the state accepted federal funding for broadband access. The issue exposed divides among technology experts and politicians, with some Senate Republicans joining Democrats in opposing the move. The Senate eventually voted 99-1 to remove the propo

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Ted Cruz plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-21 17:54:10

Facing overwhelming opposition from both Democrats and Republicans, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accepted defeat and joined a 99-1 vote against his own plan to punish states that regulate artificial intelligence. "The Senate came together tonight to say that we can't just run over good state consumer protection laws," Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said. The Cruz plan would have thwarted state laws related to robocalls, deepfakes, and autonomous vehicles, she said. The House previously approved a bu

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AeroVironment stock drops 8% on offering plan to pay off debt

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-08-21 22:26:51

An image of a Quantix drone made by AeroVironment. AeroVironment shares fell 8% Tuesday after the defense contractor said it plans to offer $750 million in common stock and $600 million in convertible senior notes due in 2030 to repay debt. The drone maker said it would use leftover funding for general purposes such as boosting manufacturing capacity. AeroVironment shares have soared 85% this year, ballooning its market value to about $13 billion. Last week, shares of the Arlington, Virginia

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14 Million People Could Die in Next 5 Years Due to USAID Cuts, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-21 22:15:14

Elon Musk’s wood-chipping of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is poised to leave piles of bodies behind in its wake, a new study suggests. Scientists have calculated that recent funding cuts to USAID could lead to millions of preventable deaths worldwide over the next half-decade. An international group of researchers conducted the study, published Monday in the Lancet. They estimated that USAID funding in developing countries has helped save dozens of millions of

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Remark raises $16M to build out human-powered expert models for e-commerce

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-21 22:00:00

Startups working on AI-powered e-commerce tools often rely on external data or user signals to build and improve their models. However, a company called Remark is taking a different approach by letting thousands of human experts chat with users while they are purchasing items, and then using that knowledge to train models. Remark also makes those experts “available” all the time by having their AI-powered persona answer questions. Remark said that this resulted in a 10% net revenue gain for par

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When Did Nature Burst into Vivid Color?

news.ycombinator.com Molly Herring 2025-08-18 03:09:09

In the animal kingdom, there is incredible variation in visual perception. What an animal sees depends on the structure of its retina and its neural visual processing system. Most insects can see ultraviolet, blue and green light, but there is wide variety among arthropods; mantis shrimp eyes have up to 12 different channels of color, revealing the ultraviolet spectrum and polarized light. The ancestor of living vertebrates could likely detect red, purple, blue and green — an ability that was ma

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Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-22 02:25:03

Grammarly announced Tuesday the acquisition of email client Superhuman in a push to build out its AI for its productivity suite. Neither companies provided details about the financial terms of the deal. Superhuman was founded by Rahul Vohra, Vivek Sodera, and Conrad Irwin. The company raised more than $114 million in funding from backers including a16z, IVP, and Tiger Global, with its last valuation at $825 million, according to data from venture data analytics firm Traxcn. “With Superhuman, w

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AeroVironment stock drops 7% on offering plan to pay off debt

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-08-22 10:35:46

An image of a Quantix drone made by AeroVironment. AeroVironment shares fell 7% Tuesday after the defense contractor said it plans to offer $750 million in common stock and $600 million in convertible senior notes due in 2030 to repay debt. The drone maker said it would use leftover funding for general purposes such as boosting manufacturing capacity. AeroVironment shares have soared 85% this year, ballooning its market value to about $13 billion. Last week, shares of the Arlington, Virginia

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Kayak and Expedia race to build AI travel agents that turn social posts into itineraries

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-22 22:05:48

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more When people started to talk about AI agents and assistants, the number one use case revolved around travel. Could someone be watching a video about the Maldives and direct their AI agent to start finding flights and hotels, and book these seamlessly? We‘re inching closer to a similar future as the travel industry begins to embrace agentic

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Latest Tech News

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions

Medical groups warn Senate budget bill will create dystopian healthcare system

Jabra Enhance Select 50R Review: Palatable Price

Microsoft laying off about 9,000 employees in latest round of cuts

Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or ‘VTubers,’ are earning millions

Paramount pays Trump $16 million to settle Harris lawsuit

Amazon deploys its 1 millionth robot in a sign of more job automation

Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for multibillion-dollar merger

Qantas hack results in theft of 6 million passengers’ personal data

Enterprise giants Atlassian, Intuit, and AWS are planning for a world where agents call the APIs

Capital One builds agentic AI modeled after its own org chart to supercharge auto sales

Australians to face age checks from search engines

What Happens to Your Brain When You Use ChatGPT? Scientists Took a Look

From 30 days to 1: Chevron’s cloud migration ROI in real numbers

AeroVironment stock drops 11% on offering plan to pay off debt

How a beer-making process is used to make cleaner disposable diapers

Google's AI Mode Is Changing How You Search. So What Is It?

RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA ‘Very, Very Quickly’

Nothing Just Killed Its Phone's Flashy Glyph Interface. I Think the Replacement Is Better

PlayStation 6? Sony and AMD's Plan to Power Next Gen Consoles With AI

Congress Dropped a Plan to Block State AI Rules. Why That Matters for Consumers

Ted Cruz plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote

AeroVironment stock drops 8% on offering plan to pay off debt

14 Million People Could Die in Next 5 Years Due to USAID Cuts, Study Finds

Remark raises $16M to build out human-powered expert models for e-commerce

When Did Nature Burst into Vivid Color?

Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman

AeroVironment stock drops 7% on offering plan to pay off debt

Kayak and Expedia race to build AI travel agents that turn social posts into itineraries

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