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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

The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries’ attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners’ data, arguing that data sovereignty laws threaten th

I've got nothing against AI Mode in Google Search. In fact, I've found it to be occasionally very useful for queries that are hard to express with simple keywords. On the other hand, AI Overviews in t

Enterprise software giant Atlassian is rolling out a new way for humans and AI agents to work together that it hopes will help teams produce “10x the work without 10x the chaos.” Atlassian announced “

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French developer Mistral AI is releasing a new set of language models designed to bring high-end AI capabilities to more people, regardless of where they are, how reliable their internet access is, or

DeepSeek, the China-based AI company, has released two new reasoning-capable AI models, V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale, with the latter outperforming Gemini 3.0 Pro and GPT-5 High in benchmarks, the company s

For Neal Shah, the breaking point came during his wife's cancer treatment. He remembers being overwhelmed, surrounded by stacks of hospital bills, denial notices and insurance statements. When he and

Even though travel is genuinely one of my favorite things to do (and my favorite thing to spend money on), it can still be overwhelming to plan a dream trip. I have dozens and dozens of trips -- domes

Maybe it's because of the holiday weekend. OpenAI's video generator Sora and Google's image generator nano banana pro are placing new limits on how many videos (in the case of Sora) and AI images (in

Google Maps becomes even more essential during the holiday travel rush, whether you're navigating unfamiliar airports, driving to family gatherings or squeezing in a last-minute shopping trip across t

Chatbots are genuinely impressive when you watch them do things they're good at, like writing a basic email or creating weird, futuristic-looking images. But ask generative AI to solve a puzzle in the