The clippening

Earlier this year, after a tumultuous period serving as the former second-in-command at the FBI, Dan Bongino went back to what he is perhaps known best for: video podcasting. After Bongino exited the role in January, he…

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The clippening

Paid “clippers” cut up popular podcasts and streamers like Clavicular into countless shorter versions. They’re betting that the algorithms will make things go viral.

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Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser's system folders. Users who have noticed …

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Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

Chrome users are discovering that Google is installing a 4GB weights.bin file inside their browser directory when certain AI browser features are enabled.

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Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will improve the smart home…

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Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests

Google is upgrading Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, allowing users to give the smart home assistant more complex, multi-step requests.

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Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would apply to people in t…

https://www.theverge.com/tech/924706/apple-iphone-siri-intelligence-class-action-lawsuit-settlement

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Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features.

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Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI

Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tu…

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Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI

Xbox is “winding down Copilot on mobile” and “will stop development of Copilot on console,” according to new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma.

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Apple could let you pick a favorite AI model in iOS 27

The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third-party chatbots to …

https://www.theverge.com/tech/924515/apple-intelligence-third-party-chatbot-extensions-ios-27

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Apple could let you pick a favorite AI model in iOS 27

Apple is reportedly planning to allow users to choose a third-party AI model to run all of their Apple Intelligence features in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27.

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Threads is finally getting DMs on the web

Nearly a year after rolling out Threads direct messaging to everyone on mobile, Meta is finally bringing the feature to the web. Meta says it's "testing" DMs on the web now, but plans to make the feature "available to m…

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Threads is finally getting DMs on the web

Meta is finally rolling out Threads DMs on the web. Meta says it’s “testing” the feature now, but plans to make it “available to more people soon.”

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OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant improvements in factua…

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OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less

OpenAI says that GPT-5.5 Instant, ChatGPT’s new default model, is more factual and produces fewer hallucinated claims than the previous default, GPT-5.3.

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Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history" when training its L…

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Meta sued by major book publishers over copyright infringement

Five major publishers, including Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Cengage, and others, are suing Meta over claims that the company copied their works to train its Llama AI models.

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Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes

Microsoft's new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has spent the past couple of months making her mark on the Xbox organization. After focusing on highly requested Xbox console features, reducing the price of Game Pass, and movin…

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Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is bringing more technical expertise into the Xbox platform team.

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