Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Effie Epstein, announced a new $265 million AI fund that was betting big on large language model companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face. In fact, the plan was to invest in just six companies … Read more
What you need to know Google recently confirmed that it has started a small test in Search, involving verified checkmarks for websites. The test shows that hovering over the icon explains that the website in question is true and “verified.” Google rolled out BIMI indicators (blue markers) in Gmail 2023 to fight against phishing emails … Read more
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Drivers in Illinois will start seeing alerts from the State Police on their navigation apps. Notifications will warn drivers about crashes, traffic stops, and other conditions that could potentially be unsafe for them or the officers involved. Illinois will start seeding this data to Waze first, followed by … Read more
Google is testing a new verification feature in search, in a move aimed at helping users avoid fake or fraudulent websites. The Verge’s Jess Weatherbed reports: My colleague Jay Peters spotted checkmarks next to official site links for Microsoft, Meta, Epic Games, Apple, Amazon, and HP, but these were no longer displayed once he logged … Read more
On Friday, Meta announced a preview of Movie Gen, a new suite of AI models designed to create and manipulate video, audio, and images, including creating a realistic video from a single photo of a person. The company claims the models outperform other video-synthesis models when evaluated by humans, pushing us closer to a future … Read more
NBA 2K25 Arcade Edition is now available in Apple Arcade on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, and the latest version of the game offers many new features. Here’s what’s new in NBA 2K25 Arcade Edition, according to its App Store description: • Outdoor streetball courts and indoor courts, complete quests … Read more
Magnolia Are you ready to dance with the devil in the pale moonlight this weekend? The long-waited sequel Joker: Folie à Deux hits theaters, and it’s a good assumption that fans of the original won’t bee too pleased with this one, which emphasizes awkward musical interludes and banal courtroom drama rather than the shocking violence that … Read more
Microsoft Loop is mainly marketed for business users, but it’s also available to users with individual Microsoft 365 accounts, too. Microsoft markets this product as a way to, “Think, plan, and create together.” Here’s how the Loop app can help you take notes, make to-do lists, plan trips, and more. Where Can I Access Loop? … Read more
The end of Moore’s Law is looming. Engineers and designers can do only so much to miniaturize transistors and pack as many of them as possible into chips. So they’re turning to other approaches to chip design, incorporating technologies like AI into the process. Samsung, for instance, is adding AI to its memory chips to … Read more
Getty Images GP services in England and Northern Ireland faced huge disruption following IT problems caused by a software update by CrowdStrike GPs couldn’t treat patients, people were stranded as planes couldn’t get off the ground, and small businesses lost much-needed sales. Two months on from the global IT outage on 19 July, its full … Read more