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"Hola! ¿Hablas inglés?" I asked the woman who answered the phone in the Barcelona restaurant. I was calling in a futile attempt to make a reservation for the CNET team dinner during Mobile World Congr

ChatGPT-5 likes getting straight to the point.For some, that's a reprieve from its chattier predecessor, GPT-4o. For others, something will certainly seem off. Despite the hype leading up to OpenAI's

Google's AI Mode is getting new agentic capabilities and expanding to 180 new countries and territories around the world, Google announced Thursday. AI Mode allows you to ask questions directly to Goo

Rising costs across pretty much every product category are at the top of our mind, and the Whole Foods "whole paycheck" joke hits a little too close to home these days. Inflation and higher costs of f

Eager to establish dominance in artificial intelligence, Meta has signed up to use cloud-computing services from Google Cloud in a deal worth at least $10 billion over six years, according to a report

You don't have to be chronically online to know that generative AI has infiltrated nearly every part of our online lives. Social media is no exception: Meta's AI chatbot pushes its way into search on

Meta is diving into AI video generation with a splash. The company will work with and license models from Midjourney AI, one of the most popular AI image and video companies.Alexandr Wang, Meta's chie

Apple is reportedly weighing what could be a major change to its digital assistant: powering a revamped Siri with Google's Gemini artificial intelligence tool. According to Bloomberg, the companies ar

The US government has officially taken a 10% stake in Intel in what seems to be a bid to save the chip maker, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick unveiled in a post on X on Friday. Intel confirmed it

Ordering a pizza online is wildly more interesting when AI does it.When OpenAI announced ChatGPT Agent, an AI-powered tool that handles complex tasks from start to finish, I didn't fully understand it

Anthropic, the company behind the popular AI model Claude, said in a new Threat Intelligence report that it disrupted a "vibe hacking" extortion scheme. In the report, the company detailed how the cyb

Commenters are calling out Will Smith for using AI in a concert video. The video, posted to YouTube on Aug. 12, features the actor and rapper performing on stage with a montage of his audiences. The c

Top officials in dozens of states have seen how generative AI chatbots and characters, if handled poorly, can be bad for children. And they have a stern warning for the industry: "If you knowingly har

Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of it just sits unused on servers, unwatc

Comet, Perplexity's new AI-powered web browser, recently suffered from a significant security vulnerability, according to a blog post last week from Brave, a competing web browser company. The vulnera