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New MacBook Air Brings the M4 Chip and a $100 Lower Price Tag
Plus, the new Mac Studio offers M4 Max or M3 Ultra configurations. The M3 Ultra chip has an 80-core GPU suitable for AI workloads.
How Trump’s Tariffs Could Drive Up Tech Prices
U.S. President Trump’s new tariffs are estimated to cost North America $50B and have ripple effects across the tech sector.
Prime Video tests AI dubbing for select movies and TV series
Prime Video is now experimenting with AI-assisted dubbing for select licensed movies and TV shows, as announced by the Amazon-owned streaming service on Wednesday. According to Prime Video, this new test will feature AI-assisted dubbing services in English and Latin American Spanish, combining AI with human localization professionals to “ensure quality control,” the company explained.   […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
10 Must-Read Books on the Impact of AI, Robotics, and Automation
Artificial intelligence and robotics technology continues to drive automation across all sectors of industry. Kara Sherrer, writing for TechRepublic Premium, presents a list of books that offer insights into where this tech is headed, how it’s being put to use, and the ways it will impact the modern workforce. Featured text from the download: Co-Intelligence: ...
MWC 2025: Nothing Shows Off (3A) Phones With AI Organization Tool
AI-powered Essential Space is a favorites tab for screenshots, photos, to-do lists, and more that Nothing said is coming soon.
Pre-order Apple’s New iPad Air With Powerful M3 Chip and AI Now
The 11th generation iPad and iPad Air will both be available March 12. Plus, a new set of Magic Keyboards goes with the new tablets.
AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Deliver 20% to 40% More Power, Challenging NVIDIA
The $549 and $599 price points put these GPUs in intense competition with NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series. Plus, AMD committed to an AI telecom solution layer at Mobile World Congress.
Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award
Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge engineering and nature.
AI revolutionizes glaucoma care: Specialist-level screening system
Glaucoma is called the 'silent thief of sight' as many don't notice until significant, irreversible vision loss has already occurred. A revolutionary early screening tool using AI may stop this thief dead in its tracks.
ChatGPT on the couch? How to calm a stressed-out AI
Distressing news and traumatic stories can cause stress and anxiety -- not only in humans, but these stories can also affect AI language models, such as ChatGPT. Researchers have now shown that these models, like humans, respond to therapy: an elevated 'anxiety level' in GPT-4 can be 'calmed down' using mindfulness-based relaxation techniques.
Collaborating to advance research and innovation on essential chips for AI
Agreement between MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries aims to deliver power efficiencies for data centers and ultra-low power consumption for intelligent devices at the edge.
An ancient RNA-guided system could simplify delivery of gene editing therapies
The programmable proteins are compact, modular, and can be directed to modify DNA in human cells.
Professional artists viewed as more creative than AI programs
In the rapidly developing contest between human creativity and artificial intelligence algorithms, professional artists still have an edge in producing more creative AI-assisted artwork than the AI programs themselves or novice artists, according to new research.
CrowdStrike Security Report: Generative AI Powers Social Engineering Attacks
Trends in cybersecurity across 2024 showed less malware and phishing, though more social engineering. CrowdStrike offers tips on securing your business.
IT Leader’s Guide to Artificial General Intelligence
Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is a hypothetical form of AI designed to perform human-level cognitive functions, such as the capacity to self-teach. AGI is regarded as very powerful since it can autonomously solve a wide variety of cognitive tasks, as opposed to weak or narrow AI systems that carry out only particular or specialized ...
SonicWall Report: “Threat Actors are Moving at Unprecedented Speeds”
SonicWall’s 2025 Annual Threat Report noted the U.S. healthcare sector and Latin America were targeted by cybercriminals.
Simulating scientists: New tool for AI-powered scientific discovery
Researchers have developed a generative AI tool that mimics scientists to support and speed up the process of scientific discoveries.
AI generates playful, human-like games
A team of scientists has now created a computer model that can represent and generate human-like goals by learning from how people create games. The work could lead to AI systems that better understand human intentions and more faithfully model and align with our goals. It may also lead to AI systems that can help us design more human-like games.
Data Theft Drove 94% of Global Cyberattacks in 2024 & Ransomware Defenses are “Increasingly Complex”
Ransomware groups now steal, encrypt, and threaten to leak company data on the dark web, forcing victims to pay or risk exposing sensitive information.
ElevenLabs now lets authors create and publish audiobooks on its own platform
Voice AI company ElevenLabs is now letting authors publish AI-generated audiobooks on its own Reader app, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. The announcement comes days after the company partnered with Spotify for AI-narrated audiobooks. ElevenLabs, which raised a $180 million mega-round last month, started inviting authors to try out their publishing program through […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
