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Verizon will pay you $20 following its nationwide outage

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Wikipedia will share content with AI firms in new licensing deals

Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI to paid deals.

Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others

The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.

The Sony Bravia 8 II looks absolutely stellar

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US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet on sexualized deepfakes

In a letter to the leaders of X, Meta, Alphabet, Snap, Reddit and TikTok, several U.S. senators are demanding the companies provide proof that they have "robust protections and policies" in place, and how they plan to curb the rise of sexualized deepfakes on their platforms.

Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores

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Spotify is hiking prices again

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AI for the introverts.

Google’s new Personal Intelligence launch for Gemini includes a familiar enough marketing example: asking AI for help buying tires instead of the human expert that was yards away at the time.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT translator challenges Google Translate

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A “conscious decision” from OpenAI.

The ChatGPT creator lost out when Apple and Google announced a deal for Gemini to power Siri, but a source told the Financial Times that the company made “a conscious decision to not become the custom model provider for Apple,” instead prioritizing its own AI hardware with ex-Apple designer Jony Ive.

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia

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Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing

In-car personal assistants are about to get useful, it looks like.