The U.S. government's threat to ban TikTok takes aim at what has become the most popular smartphone app in the country. Why it matters: TikTok’s…

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Google has released a new chatbot, Bard, and has shared the experimental technology with a limited number of people in the United States and Britain.…

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For more than three months, Google executives have watched as projects at Microsoft and a San Francisco start-up called OpenAI have stoked the public’s imagination…

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Image: Google Google has started allowing some users in the U.S. and U.K. to start accessing the experimental version of Bard, its ChatGPT rival. Why…

Read More Google begins public testing of Bard chatbot, its ChatGPT rival

Image: Adobe Adobe is taking the wraps off Firefly, a new family of generative AI tools it says can help transform the emerging technology into…

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The Apple Watch has been credited with saving a man's life after it helped him catch potentially deadly blood clots early. Ken Counihan says his…

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Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios OpenAI's newest generative AI tool GPT-4 is more likely to spread misinformation — when prompted — than its predecessor GPT-3.5, according to…

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More than a dozen countries around the world have introduced full, partial or public sector bans on TikTok amid heightened national security concerns. Why it…

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Sonos fans might be tempted by a very rare discount that’s offering some big money off of the hugely popular Sonos One. This award-winning speaker…

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Mirrored Souls. Screenshot: The Bricks Studios A Brazilian video game publisher wants to defy decades of industry wisdom by promoting a line of new games…

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Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios As the tech world embraces ChatGPT and other generative AI programs, the industry's longstanding pledges to deploy AI responsibly could quickly be…

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Screen shot of CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company's "Connect" virtual event CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said the social media giant is renaming its…

Read More Facebook changes corporate name to Meta

A year and a half after renaming itself after its metaverse initiative, Meta has noticeably de-emphasized that vision for the future. The big picture: Meta…

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Photo Illustration: Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump's channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios. Why…

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Photo Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Facebook on Friday said it will ban former President Trump from its platform for two…

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Image: Facebook Facebook unveiled a series of new moves in augmented and virtual reality on Thursday, as part of its longer-term effort to help build…

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A rendering of Figure 01, a humanoid robot being built by a startup called Figure. Image courtesy of Figure Human-shaped robots with dexterous hands will…

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When Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile venture capital firms, wanted to build a bridge between two of its office buildings around 2005, it…

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TikTok CEO, Shou Zi Chew in Washington, D.C., in February. Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew insisted Thursday…

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SAN FRANCISCO — Emmett Shear, the chief executive of the livestreaming site Twitch, said on Thursday that he was resigning, ending a 16-year tenure for…

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A 22-year-old Australian lad has made more than $100,000 (£55,000) in the space of six weeks—after inventing a new type of phone charger on the…

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An image which is supposedly a screenshot of GTA 6 has appeared online and sent fans of the series into overdrive. Users on Twitter and…

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Move over iPhone⁠—Samsung has just launched two amazing high-spec budget smartphones for a fraction of the price. The Korean tech giant has unveiled the Galaxy…

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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration wants TikTok’s Chinese ownership to sell the app or face a possible ban, TikTok said on Wednesday, as the White…

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