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The next time your boss asks you why you skipped a meeting, you could blame it on Zoom. The video conferencing company unveiled a host of new AI upgrades on Wednesday, all aimed at improving its AI to

Artificial intelligence is everywhere now, powering song recommendations on Spotify, filling inboxes with AI-written emails, and showing up in classrooms and workplaces around the world. You may not f

Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers. That shift has prompted Peak XV Partners to back C2i Semiconductors, an Indian startup building plug-and-pl

Learning to read is difficult, and reading aloud is anxiety inducing for plenty of kids. From not being able to pronounce a word, to being mocked by their peers for stumbling while speaking, reading o

This week's Meta Connect smart glasses event was, let's admit it, a little cringeworthy. Or at least I cringed when two of Meta's live demos epically failed. (A third live demo took some time but even

At a disability help desk at the airport, a badge around her neck, Jennifer Opal was visibly communicating that she had an invisible disability. When the situation became overwhelming, Opal experience

Pope Leo XIV isn't ready to outsource himself to AI just yet. The first American-born pontiff refused to sign off on an idea that would have let Catholics log on from anywhere in the world and have a

As a college professor, trying to get students excited about the work I have to grade later can be one of the more frustrating things about teaching. But when an assignment hits the right chord, it ha

Like all generative AI video models, Google's Veo 3 shines in small doses. At the company's Made On YouTube event this week in New York, journalists and creators saw just what it can do in YouTube Sho

At Wednesday's Meta Connect event, Meta got to show off its hardware prowess. The new Meta Ray-Bans Gen 2 are getting a fancy new neural wristband to support hand gestures, along with twice the batter

Gemini in Chrome, a melding of Google's AI assistant and its popular web browser, is now rolling out to Windows and Mac desktop users in the US, the company said in a blog post Thursday. Businesses wi

Reasoning models are not uncommon in the world of AI. Many companies have them, including OpenAI's GPT-o3 and Google's Gemini 2.5. But AI image and video company Luma AI just dropped its first AI reas

As soon as I saw Alex Himel, Meta's head of wearables, wearing a thick pair of glasses as he entered the room, I knew they had to be Meta's next pair of rumored display glasses. Thicker than regular M

Jogging on a treadmill in jeans at Meta's Menlo Park campus when it's nearly 80 degrees isn't my idea of a good time. But I was curious what Meta's new wraparound smart shades, and a Garmin sports wat

The 2-year-old Meta Ray-Bans, which currently top my list of the best smart glasses, have been a pretty great everyday pair of smart glasses for me, except for when the battery runs out. Which happens