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Firefox is Adding a “No Thanks” Button to AI – and Honestly, It’s About Time

Mozilla is about to do something that seems counterintuitive, even anti-business, in the tech industry of 2020: it’s going to just give users a straightforward way to say “no” to generative algorithms on their computer. With Firefox 148, launching on February 24th, the browser will adopt a new “AI controls” section in settings. The headline feature is […]

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SoftBank Plans Another Giant Bet on OpenAI – Up to $30 Billion on the Table

SoftBank is said to be in discussions to invest an additional $30 billion in OpenAI, a deal that would rewrite the competitive balance for artificial intelligence around the world. The talks were earlier reported by Reuters, citing a report from The Wall Street Journal, and they would follow OpenAI’s exploration of raising about $100 billion; that funding

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South Korea Just Drew the World’s Sharpest Line on AI – And Startups Are Already Sweating

South Korea on Tuesday became the first country to implement a fully fledged 5G network, a milestone that highlights the intense competitive race by Western powers and their Asian rivals led by China to dominate the next generation of mobile communication technology. The new rules, which would point toward requirements for other countries to develop their

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EU vs X: Grok’s Explicit-Image Mess Has Officially Crossed the Line

The EU has now singled X out – and this time it’s not political, misinformation based or some nebulous free speech argument. It has to do with porn: Specifically, there’s this question of the sexually explicit images that can be created using Grok, the AI associated with Elon Musk’s platform, and whether some of those were

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South Korea on Tuesday became the first country to implement a fully fledged 5G network, a milestone that highlights the intense competitive race by Western powers and their Asian rivals led by China to dominate the next generation of mobile communication technology. The new rules, which would point toward requirements for other countries to develop their

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Intel’s Rough Start to 2026: A Missed Forecast, Frayed Nerves and a Long Trip Back

Intel didn’t ease into 2026. It stumbled. The chipmaker’s forecast for the first quarter was weaker than Wall Street had hoped, and the response came quickly: raised eyebrows, falling shares and a familiar feeling of unease. The company forecasted revenue and profit that missed expectations – a sign of just how difficult this turnaround remains, as

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Slow Down the Machines? Wall Street and Silicon Valley at Odds Over A.I.’s Nearest Future

It was not a philosopher nor a sci-fi novelist who sounded the alarm. It was a decree from one of the world’s most powerful banks. The Boss of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, has poured a bucket of cold water on the AI hype cycle, concluding that society may need to slow down the roll out of artificial intelligence

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Legal Tech’s New Power Player: IVO’s $55M Boost Signals AI-Driven Law Future (and It’s Just Getting Started)

The company: IVO, a legal AI startup is just pulling off one hell of a Series B that’s setting serious tongues wagging in Silicon Valley and beyond – but this ain’t no other headline about venture cash. Underneath the hood of the legal industry, something deeper is changing and skeptics and evangelists should be asking: Is AI

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Deepfakes, Denials and a Watchful Eye: UK Regulator Keeps X Under Pressure

The U.K. is not going to let this one go. Even as other inquiries quietly fade into bureaucratic limbo, this one is sticking. A British media watchdog said on Thursday that it would press ahead with an investigation of X over the spread of AI-generated deepfake images — despite the platform’s insistence that it’s cracking down on harmful

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No Nvidia, No Problem: How a Chinese AI Firm Quietly Pulled Off a Hardware Power Move

Something interesting just happened in China’s AI scene, and it didn’t come with fireworks or chest-thumping press conferences. Instead, it arrived almost casually – which somehow makes it more impressive. Zhipu AI, a well-known Chinese artificial intelligence company, says it has trained a cutting-edge image generation model entirely on Huawei’s homegrown chips. No Nvidia GPUs.

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