OpenAI plans to buy AI chips from Google, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The financial terms and other details of the planned purchase were not disclosed. We have not independently verified the report, an…
Google DeepMind wants to make AI-generated worlds feel more lifelike. Genie 4 brings real-time changes, interactive dialogue, and improved physics to virtual environments.
Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.
Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. The company says the model has four main updates: It allows for more realistic worlds, lets users update an experience in real time with a natural language prompt, can generate audio, and uses Gemini 3.8 Flash under the hood to help […]
Google Photos is rolling out a redesigned Collections tab on Android, letting users pin favourite folders, hide sections and rearrange categories with version 7.97.
Microsoft shipped out-of-band updates for .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell on Sunday. They fix CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in Brotli, Google’s widely used compression library, which OpenAI’s Codex Security team reported. Node.js, Python packag…
Today, I’m talking to Kevin Roose, journalist and author of the new book The AGI Chronicles, which details the recent and explosive transformation of the AI industry. Kevin was a longtime New York Times reporter and host of the popular podcast Hard Fork, but he and friend of the show Casey Newton just left the […]
Apple once made life difficult for independent repairers. Now, it’s publishing iPhone Duo repair manuals on launch day.
Goldman Sachs is putting $500M into the next phase of its 10,000 Small Businesses programme, including a new AI institute built with Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI. At the launch, its chief executive said there is very little that needs the frontie…