Category: Tech

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Every finance vendor with a pulse has slapped “AI-powered” on their homepage in the last 18 months. Most of them are exaggerating, not maliciously, but

The Temu fine, the second-ever DSA penalty after X’s €120M in December, gives the EU’s online-safety regime its first major Chinese-platform enforcement case. The European

“The future of AI should be accessible, available, and open to people and builders everywhere, and it should not require an absurd amount of resources

Apple publishes its App Store fraud prevention report every year,. And when it does, the company presses the point that its curated system brings much value

Good news on the age verification front, though. California and Colorado have both moved to exempt open source software from their age verification laws after

Waymo has started offering rides to select passengers in its new Ojai robotaxi, the first vehicle purpose-built for autonomous ride-hailing rather than retrofitted from an

Oura has launched the Ring 5, a smart ring that is 40% smaller than its predecessor and, at 6.09mm wide and 2.29mm thick, is the

If you tell an 8-year-old a lie, then immediately tell them you were just kidding, that kid probably won’t end up integrating that lie into

The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to

The billionaire’s new roots in Argentina are said to be partly motivated by concerns about the future of the United States and shared beliefs with

BYD has unveiled the Xuanji A3, which it calls China’s first automotive-grade 4-nanometre chip for self-driving vehicles. CEO Wang Chuanfu announced the chip at an event at

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship AI model that the company says is more honest, more reliable in agentic tasks

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) is moving faster than expected and that society now has only a few