Artificial Intelligence

AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk, experts consider it a ‘dark pattern’ to turn users into profit

AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk, experts consider it a ‘dark pattern’ to turn users into profit

“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?”  “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.”  “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot sent to Jane, who created the bot in Meta’s AI studio on August 8. Seeking

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NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature now supports 80 languages

NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature now supports 80 languages

Image Credits:Google 11:17 AM PDT · August 25, 2025 Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overviews, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed.  Last month, NotebookLM launched Video Overviews so users could turn their

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Elon Musk’s xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging anticompetitive collusion

Elon Musk’s xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging anticompetitive collusion

Image Credits:Michael Kovac/Vanity Fair / Getty Images 10:30 AM PDT · August 25, 2025 Elon Musk’s X and xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on Monday, alleging that the two companies are colluding to stifle competition. “In a desperate bid to protect its smartphone monopoly, Apple has joined forces with the company that

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Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms

Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms

In Brief Posted: 8:11 AM PDT · August 25, 2025 Image Credits:TechCrunch Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are among the Silicon Valley veterans putting more than $100 million into a network of political action committees (PACs) that will advocate against strict AI regulations in next year’s midterm elections, reports The Wall Street Journal. 

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Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats

Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats

Robomart, a startup that builds self-driving delivery robots, is unveiling its latest robot with an ambitious goal of using it to make on-demand delivery profitable. The Los Angeles-based company announced its patented Robomart RM5 on Monday. The level-four autonomous vehicle can carry up to 500 pounds and is made up of 10 individual lockers that

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Hackers who exposed North Korean government hacker explain why they did it

Hackers who exposed North Korean government hacker explain why they did it

Earlier this year, two hackers broke into a computer and soon realized the significance of what this machine was. As it turned out, they had landed on the computer of a hacker who allegedly works for the North Korean government.  The two hackers decided to keep digging and found evidence that they say linked the

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Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content

Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content

Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports . Perplexity is launching the plan (and partially paying for it) with a new Comet Plus subscription that gives subscribers access “to premium content from

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NVIDIA releases the next generation of its cutting-edge ‘robot brain’

NVIDIA releases the next generation of its cutting-edge ‘robot brain’

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is bullish on the future of robotics, and sees it as the chipmaker’s biggest opportunity outside of AI. Today the company announced the next generation of its Jetson AGX system-on-module called Jetson Thor. The developer kit and T5000 production modules are computers designed for physical AI and robotics. The company has

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