Friction-maxxing: could less convenience lead to much more happiness? | Technology
Name: Friction-maxxing. Age: Brand new. Appearance: A lifetime of happy inconvenience. Is this another example of something that…
Elon Musk’s xAI announces it has raised $20bn amid backlash over Grok deepfakes | Technology
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has raised $20bn in its latest funding round, the startup announced Tuesday, even…
Open wide! AI spots diabetes and stomach cancer from just the colour of your tongue
Doctors have long examined patients’ tongues for signs such as changes in colour (a thick white coating can…
News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.
Describing OpenAI’s alleged “playbook” to dodge copyright claims, news groups accused OpenAI of failing to “take any steps…
Universal & NVIDIA Partner on AI Music Discovery, Fan & Creator Tools
The Universal Music Group has inked a new partnership with AI chipmaking giant NVIDIA “to pioneer responsible AI…
AI consciousness is a red herring in the safety debate | AI (artificial intelligence)
The concern expressed by Yoshua Bengio that advanced AI systems might one day resist being shut down deserves…
AMD and Nvidia talking up local AI for consumers could be bad news for those ChatGPT subscriptions but good news for us PC gamers
It’s all a bit doom and gloom in the PC gaming market lately, what with memory shortages and…
CES 2026 Live: Breaking News and Everything Announced in Tech
Ty Pendlebury/CNET LG makes some of the best TVs on the market — I’ve been using an LG…
Sony Patents AI Assistant That Can Help You Beat Games, or Just Beat Them For You
An interesting patent from Sony has recently been discovered, and it concerns the use of an AI assistant…
BBC Verify Live: Fact-checking whether US has right to take over Greenland
Viral AI-generated video shows people crying on streets in Venezuelapublished at 13:01 GMT 13:01 GMT Shayan SardarizadehBBC Verify…
LG creates AI-powered robot to make “housework a thing of the past”
Electronics brand LG has unveiled CLOiD, an AI-powered home robot that takes care of household chores like cooking…
Using Grok to make explicit images ‘shocking’
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described reports of the Grok artificial intelligence tool being used to create sexually explicit…