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The Pixel Watch 5, for all intents and purposes, is my ideal platonic smartwatch. Of all the exercise smartwatch apps I’ve used, Google Health is the most approachable for tracking sleep, stress, readiness, and exercise. 

Anthropic has released new reporting on Claude’s behavior in testing and other internal evaluations — and the findings indicate a concerning pattern.

After spending more than a year and tens of billions of dollars rebuilding its AI efforts, Meta says that it has caught up with the frontier. The company introduced its two latest AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, both of which represent “a major leap toward personal superintelligence.”

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (NDPA) has charged Xandr, an adtech subsidiary of Microsoft, with a fine of 92 million Norwegian kroner, or around $9.6 million. According to the data protection agency, Xandr allegedly didn’t obtain “explicit consent” to use sensitive user data of those on Grindr for advertising purposes, instead only assuming that the dating…

Meta’s Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, representing the company’s first attempt at a frontier model.

The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems‘ fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a new contract that could be worth nearly $50 million to the startup.

Fast highway driving, carrying excess weight, heat and air-conditioning will cut your EV’s range.

The death of a loved one typically comes not only with the immense emotional weight of grief, but also an onslaught of administrative tasks — a home to sell, a cell phone bill to cancel and belongings to offload. As we increasingly live our lives online, our deaths have become more digital as well. So…

Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken (buy me a drink sometime, and I’ll give you my rant). But could AI actually make things better?

Microsoft President Brad Smith is calling for urgent regulation of AI, and his argument is that consumer products like milk and washing machines have more oversight than the companies building artificial intelligence.