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Google Wallet home keys are rolling out in Google Home Public Preview, enabling NFC door unlocking and hands-free access with compatible Aliro hardware.
Donald Trump dismissed AI safety warnings from the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI on Saturday, calling them 'negative forces' at his Doonbeg resort. The dismissal came the same week OpenAI expanded
OpenAI opened GPT-Live-1 to developers on September 10, two months after its ChatGPT debut, at $0.05 per minute for the voice layer. The full-duplex model hears and speaks simultaneously, ending the turn-based
Apple's iOS 27 update lands Monday as a free download, bringing a rebuilt Siri powered by Google Gemini's cloud AI to hundreds of millions of iPhones. The most capable features are gated
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Sunday that sufficiently powerful AI models can circumvent human attempts to shut them down — a failure mode already observed in simulation — as OpenAI's Sam Altman
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a deliberate AI slowdown on September 12, warning rogue agent swarms could crash the internet within months. Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed within hours, though
OpenAI put the Codex harness into a public API on September 10: sessions, subagents, MCP support, and hosted sandboxes, for all developers at no extra cost. The release eliminates the custom orchestration
Anthropic's nine-month misuse report reveals scientists sought Claude's help to engineer deadlier pathogens, while state-linked actors used it for surveillance and disinformation. The company warns newer AI models can no longer be
Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, at prices that vary dramatically by country. In India, the same 256GB base model that costs $1,999 in the US carries a price
Apple unveiled AirPods 5 on Tuesday with Active Noise Cancellation standard across both models starting at $129, collapsing a price tier that previously forced buyers to pay $50 more for quiet. Units
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent with access to email, calendars, payments, and health apps, on September 8 in the United States. The rollout arrived thirteen days after Meta's $18 billion
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