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OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI to toy-making, other products

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-17 23:44:33

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging. This partnership marks new territory for OpenAI, which has signed licensing deals with news publishers and enterprise players, but never a toy-maker. However, it’s consistent with the AI giant’s overall strategy of embedding itself across industries, and it might give OpenAI a foothold in Mattel’s growing entertainment arm. The iconic toymaker delighted grown-up

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Out of Words is an emotional co-op adventure illustrated with beautiful stop-motion animation

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-18 03:00:00

The two main characters of Out of Words are young teens who are falling in love in a coming of age story. But then disaster strikes as they lose their mouths. They try to talk, but can’t anymore. Their mouths are sewn shut. And so begins Out of Words, a co-op platformer adventure. Of all the games that I saw at the Summer Game Fest, this one was the best. The goal of the game is to find the lost voices of the puppet-animated characters. But unfortunately, we’ll have to wait for a while. It’s c

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Google DeepMind just changed hurricane forecasting forever with new AI model

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-09-18 03:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Google DeepMind announced Thursday what it claims is a major breakthrough in hurricane forecasting, introducing an artificial intelligence system that can predict both the path and intensity of tropical cyclones with unprecedented accuracy — a longstanding challenge that has eluded traditional weather models for decades. The company launc

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Lil Snack makes a snackable Scattergories game in partnership with Hasbro

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-18 03:30:00

When we last talked with Lil Snack, they were a two-person company making little games that were like snacks. For fun, we posted their games on the GamesBeat.com web site, and it was cool to tell people that we had games on our site at the 2024 GamesBeat Summit. It was just a couple of guys using AI to make games. Flash forward to today, and now they’ve got a partnership with Hasbro to make a game based on the Scattergories board game. Lil Snack has ten new games operated daily for as many as

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Google tests new segmented Pixel Launcher search bar design in the latest Android 16 QPR1 beta

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-18 03:59:14

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is prepping another redesign for the Pixel Launcher’s search bar. The new design is already live for some users in the latest Android 16 QPR1 beta release. It features a smaller search bar with a round AI mode button to the right, like the recently released search bar home screen widget. Google has given the Pixel Launcher’s search bar a new look in Android 16 QPR1 beta 2. It now resembles the updated search bar home screen widget that rolled o

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Deals: AirPods Pro 2 50% off (refurb), M4 MacBook Air $180 off, iPhone 16 Pro Max up to $399 off, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-09-18 03:45:11

Today’s deals feature the return of $180 in savings on the latest Midnight 15-inch M4 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM, but we are first starting off with AirPods. Alongside the ongoing deals on AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods from $99, we also spotted a chance to grab Apple’s latest pro-grade buds at 50% off the list price courtesy of Best Buy’s in-house refurbishment program. From there we move over to iPhone – you can still score $400 off iPhone 16 Pro, but today we spotted iPhone 16 Pro Max refurbs at

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Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware

news.ycombinator.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-18 03:39:57

Two European journalists were hacked using government spyware made by Israeli surveillance tech provider Paragon, new research has confirmed. On Thursday, digital rights group The Citizen Lab published a new report detailing the results of a new forensic investigation into the iPhones of Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino and an unnamed “prominent” European journalist. The researchers said both journalists were hacked by the same Paragon customer, based on evidence found on the two journalists’

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Anker Recalls PowerCore 10000 Power Banks Because of Fire Risks: What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 03:12:14

The electronics maker Anker recalled its PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263 after receiving 19 reports of fires and explosions. According to an alert posted Thursday by the Consumer Products Safety Commission, more than 1.1 million of the products sold in the US are affected by the recall. The company plans to replace the charging devices, but customers who have them must submit photo evidence of ownership and also prove that they've disposed of the PowerCore devices proper

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Google has a new AI model and website for forecasting tropical storms

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-09-18 03:02:43

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is developing. It sa

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Data bill opposed by Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa finally passes

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-18 05:13:32

Data bill opposed by Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa finally passes 3 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save Watch: Sir Elton John speaks to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg A bill which sparked an extraordinary stand-off between some of the UK's most high-profile artists - and their backers in the House of Lords - has finally been passed. Peers wanted an amendment to the drably-titled Data (Use and Access) Bill which would have forced tech companies to declare their use

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CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It’ll Cause a Major Recession

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-18 06:12:34

The CEO of layaway startup Klarna is claiming that AI is coming for your white-collar jobs — even though his own experiments with replacing human workers with AI were a bust. Speaking to The Times Tech podcast, the Sweden-based CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski admitted that adoption of the technology will result in "implication[s] for white-collar jobs" that include, but are not limited to, "at least a recession in the short term." "Unfortunately, I don't see how we could avoid it, with what's happ

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Daiko will launch blockchain-based virtual pets game

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-18 06:00:00

Daiko said it plans to launch its blockchain-based Virtual Pet game to bring real-world dog care into gaming. The Irish company said we live in a time where our lives are increasingly intertwined with smart devices and digital experiences, and innovators like Daiko are taking the canine-human bond to the next level. Set for a 2026 debut, the Daiko’s Virtual Pet morphs your real-world dog care routine into an immersive, gamified digital experience that grows, learns, and plays alongside you. Yo

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Apple's AirPods 4 earbuds are cheaper than ever right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-18 07:42:24

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Just in time for a last-minute Father's Day gift (or perhaps a little treat for yourself, because you deserve nice things), Apple's AirPods 4 have dropped back down to their lowest price to date. You can snap up a pair for $99 . That's $30 off the list price. This discount is for the

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I tested an AI-powered glucose monitor against a traditional monitor for two weeks. Here's my verdict

zdnet.com Allison Jewell 2025-09-18 07:18:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Stelo by Dexcom is an over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor that uses sensors to track glucose levels and export data to your smartphone. The app utilizes generative AI to provide lifestyle recommendations and share data with your healthcare provider. However, it needs needs additional features in future iterations to offer a more comprehensive experience. $99 at Amazon I was diagnosed as prediabetic and insulin resistant during middle school, and ever since, I

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Wikipedia Tries to Calm Fury Over New AI-Generated Summaries Proposal

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-18 07:50:55

The denizens of the open web don't want anything to do with AI. The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, made the unfortunate decision to announce the trial of a new AI-fueled article generator this week. The backlash from the site’s editors was so swift and so vengeful that the organization quickly walked back its idea, announcing a temporary “pause” of the new feature. A spokesperson on behalf of the Foundation—which is largely separate from the decentralized community of

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ChatGPT Just Got 'Absolutely Wrecked' at Chess, Losing to a 1970s-Era Atari 2600

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 07:05:34

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major AI chatbot competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot. By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for

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AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, and that’s problematic

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-18 06:33:02

The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies are stepping up efforts to deal with a growing problem of chatbots telling people what they want to hear. OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic are all working on reining in sycophantic behavior by their generative AI products that offer over-flattering responses to users. The issue, stemming from how the large language models are trained, has come into focus at a time when more and more people have adopted the chatbots not only at work as

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Save $100 on Apple’s latest iPad Air with the M3 chip

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-09-18 07:46:17

is an editor covering deals and commerce. He joined in 2018, and served as commerce editor at Polygon until May 2025. Discounts have been tough to find on the 11-inch iPad Air with the M3 chip (the 2025 model), but there’s a good one happening on every color available at Amazon and Best Buy. Normally $599, the 128GB tablet is available for $499 — a price that it has sold for just once before in late April. Whether you’re partial to the porcelain-esque starlight color, or the soft blue, you’ll g

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Meta sues maker of Crush AI nudify app over Facebook and Instagram ads

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-18 11:49:00

What just happened? Meta's mission to crack down on AI "nudify" programs has led to it suing the maker of one of these apps. The social media giant has launched a lawsuit against Joy Timeline HK Limited, which developed an app called Crush AI. In the suit, which has been filed in the company's home of Hong Kong, Meta states that Crush AI made multiple attempts to circumvent Meta's ad review process and continued placing the ads. The ads appeared across Facebook and Instagram, and while Meta re

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Meta urged to go further in crackdown on 'nudify' apps

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-18 12:07:53

Meta urged to go further in crackdown on 'nudify' apps 8 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Meta has taken legal action against a company which runs ads on its platforms promoting so-called "nudify" apps, which typically using artificial intelligence (AI) to create fake nude images of people without their consent. It has sued the firm behind CrushAI apps to stop it posting ads altogether, following a cat-and-mouse battle to remove them over a series

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Maestro Media launches Kickstarter for Clash of Clans: The Epic Raid tabletop game

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-18 11:15:00

Maestro Media is launching a Kickstarter for Clash of Clans: The Epic Raid, a new tabletop game based on Supercell’s top-selling mobile game. The Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign is scheduled to being on June 17, but the team is already well under way on creating the tabletop game, said Javon Frazier, CEO of Maestro Media, in an interview with GamesBeat. The Clash of Clans tabletop game is expected to come out in 2026. The game’s creative director is veteran tabletop game designer Eric M. Lan

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Amazon Slashes AirPods 4 Prices Just Before Prime Day, Now Closer to $0 Than $200

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-18 11:25:15

AirPods 4 are dominating Amazon this June and both Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) models and the non-ANC models of the new wireless earbuds are priced lowest ever. The non-ANC AirPods 4 currently cost $99 which is a price reduction from their initial price of $129. Meanwhile, ANC-packed high-end model with transparency mode and adaptive audio costs $148 compared to $179. See AirPods Without ANC at Amazon See AirPods With ANC at Amazon Same But Different The two devices only differ in their

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This AI Writing Detector Shows Its Work. For Me, It's a Step in the Right Direction

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 11:00:06

This article was written by an actual, flesh-and-blood human -- me -- but an increasing amount of the text and video content you come across online is not. It's coming from generative AI tools, which have gotten pretty good at creating realistic-sounding text and natural-looking video. So, how do you sort out the human-made from the robotic? The answer is more complicated than that urban legend about the overuse of em-dashes would have you believe. Lots of people write with an (over)abundance o

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Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-18 11:00:00

Nnamdi Emelifeonwu was always curious about what work life was like for his colleague Feargus MacDaeid, one of the few registered blind lawyers in the U.K. Both practiced law at the global firm Freshfields. When asking about what would make his life easier, the answer was clear: “Help me navigate definitions in complex contracts without losing context,” Emelifeonwu told TechCrunch. He realized the fix to MacDaeid’s request would be useful to every lawyer. So in 2017, Emelifeonwu and MacDaeid t

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How Warp is introducing robots to automate its network of warehouses

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-18 11:00:00

Warp was founded in 2021 to help companies streamline their shipping supply chains and reduce costs through its tech-enabled network of shippers, carriers and warehouses. Now, it wants to make supply chains further efficient by using robots to automate its web of warehouses. Daniel Sokolovsky, the co-founder and CEO of Warp, told TechCrunch that Warp is always looking for ways to make shipping more efficient for its customers, which include enterprises like Walmart, Gopuff, and HelloFresh. Wit

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Former Intel engineers form AheadComputing to break CPU performance limits with RISC-V design

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-18 15:03:00

What just happened? In the heart of Oregon's Silicon Forest, a group of veteran chip architects has traded the security of a tech giant for the high-stakes world of startups, aiming to redefine the future of microprocessors. The founders of AheadComputing, who collectively spent nearly a century at Intel, are now channeling their expertise into building a new class of CPU, one they believe could upend the industry's established order. Rather than building on the legacy of x86, the team is betti

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Meta sues app-maker as it cracks down on 'nudifying'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-18 14:28:16

Meta sues app-maker as it cracks down on 'nudifying' 2 hours ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Meta has taken legal action against a company which ran ads on its platforms promoting so-called "nudify" apps, which typically using artificial intelligence (AI) to create fake nude images of people without their consent. It has sued the firm behind CrushAI apps to stop it posting ads altogether, following a cat-and-mouse battle to remove them over a series of mo

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