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There's something sacred about building a playlist. It's not just dragging songs into a queue. It's about constructing a perfect atmosphere, like a pillar of solid emotional architecture. Music plays

Large language models have a problem: they are large. Multiverse Computing, a Spanish startup, is addressing this issue with compressed models that aim to close the gap between what frontier models ca

MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500 million Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, an investment fund formed by former OpenAI resear

Tech giants’ efforts to ramp up AI adoption in India may be about to hit a turning point, as companies end free promotions with hopes to convert the world’s fourth-largest economy into a windfall of p

There are people who can't live without ChatGPT, and others who just can't get the AI chatbot to work like they want. The difference usually comes down to prompting -- and patience.If you fall into th

When you ask AI to look in the mirror, it doesn't always see itself. That's the sense you get when you ask it to determine whether an image is genuine or AI-generated.Google last week took a stab at h

After announcing last month that it would prohibit teens from having open-ended chats with AI chatbots, Character.AI this week introduced a new way to interact with AI-powered characters. You can now

ChatGPT suffers from listomania. When comparing ChatGPT 5.1 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5, the former's tendency to list-making was almost annoying. Like, you could be having an existential crisis,

After graduating from Cornell University, Christophe Gerlach spent nearly two years investing exclusively in HR tech startups for General Atlantic. Investing was exciting, but Gerlach was yearning to

The video editor in Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions. Typically, yo

Apple named the 17 winners of its 2025 App Store Awards on Thursday, and AI made its presence felt. App of the Year Tiimo, created for folks with ADHD, is an AI visual planner; iPad App of the Year De

Amazon is introducing a new feature that will allow users to change the personality of its AI assistant, Alexa+. On Wednesday, the company launched three new Alexa+ personality styles — Brief, Chill,

Apple has officially rolled out iOS 26.2, but don't expect to see that update notification if you're holding onto hardware older than the iPhone 11. In fact, you may not have access to the iOS 26 upda

No one was surprised when Google said its latest version of Gemini is capable of doing a lot more than its predecessor. Exactly to what extent, though, was surprising to me. I typically don't find mys

AI image and video models aren't human, but they do have distinct "personalities," according to the creators who use them. Creators are choosing AI models based on those personality traits and quirks