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Third of UK citizens have used AI for emotional support, research reveals

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AI Security Institute report finds most common type of AI tech used was general purpose assistants such as ChatGPT and Amazon AlexaA third of UK citizens have used artificial intelligence for emotional support, companionship or social interaction, according to the government’s AI security body.The AI Security Institute (AISI) said nearly one in 10 people used […]

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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy

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For most of photography’s roughly 200-year history, altering a photo convincingly required either a darkroom, some Photoshop expertise, or, at minimum, a steady hand with scissors and glue. On Tuesday, OpenAI released a tool that reduces the process to typing a sentence. It’s not the first company to do so. While OpenAI had a conversational

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Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, promising improved intelligence and efficiency

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Google began its transition to Gemini 3 a few weeks ago with the launch of the Pro model, and the arrival of Gemini 3 Flash kicks it into high gear. The new, faster Gemini 3 model is coming to the Gemini app and search, and developers will be able to access it immediately via the

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Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

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Senators launched a probe Tuesday demanding that tech companies explain exactly how they plan to prevent data center projects from increasing electricity bills in communities where prices are already skyrocketing. In letters to seven AI firms, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) cited a study estimating that “electricity prices

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Democratic senators investigate data centers’ effects on electricity prices

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Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Van Hollen demand answers from tech firms including Google and AmazonThree Democratic US senators announced on Tuesday that they are investigating whether big tech companies are passing the soaring utility costs of “energy-guzzling” data centers on to ordinary Americans. The trio sent letters to the heads of Google, Microsoft,

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How the tech industry’s embrace of Trump may be paying dividends

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An AI order favors tech, OpenAI chases Google and data centers look beyond EarthHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you from beneath a few inches of snow in New York City. This week in tech: an analysis of the quid pro quo of Donald Trump’s executive order on AI; OpenAI goes

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Gemini är nu en universal translator

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Google Translate utökar sin live-översättningsfunktion till alla typer av trådlösa hörlurar på Android-enheter. Geminis live-översättning är en riktig game-changer eftersom den hoppar över hela text-steget. Istället för att först transkribera ditt tal till text, översätta texten och sedan läsa upp den med Gemini-röst så hanterar Gemini 2.5 Native Audio allt direkt som ljud. Det här

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OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

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With the popularity of AI coding tools rising among some software developers, their adoption has begun to touch every aspect of the process, including human developers using the tools to improve existing AI coding tools. We’re not talking about runaway self-improvement here; just people using tools to improve the tools themselves. In interviews with Ars

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Google Translate expands live translation to all earbuds on Android

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Google has increasingly moved toward keeping features locked to its hardware products, but the Translate app is bucking that trend. The live translate feature is breaking out of the Google bubble with support for any earbuds you happen to have connected to your Android phone. The app is also getting improved translation quality across dozens

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

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On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, its newest family of AI models for ChatGPT, in three versions called Instant, Thinking, and Pro. The release follows CEO Sam Altman’s internal “code red” memo earlier this month, which directed company resources toward improving ChatGPT in response to competitive pressure from Google’s Gemini 3 AI model. “We designed 5.2

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