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Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models, has raised a $200 million Series B round at a $3.1 billion valuation, it said on Thursday.

Google continues to update Google Maps for uses beyond simple navigation, with AI-powered features that help you find places to eat and even order food. It’s basically been giving you more reasons to not use other apps such as Yelp and instead make Maps your first stop when deciding what’s for dinner.

When OpenAI released ChatGPT for Teens this past August, child safety experts Engadget spoke to at the time expressed skepticism that the new mode would adequately protect young people from harm. Now, one of those groups, Common Sense Media, has published a formal risk assessment of the software, and deemed it an “unacceptable risk” for…

They cast the wrong lead in “Good Will Hunting,” apparently, because it’s Ben Affleck who is the secret genius, as it turns out. The actor who earlier this year sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix for a reported $587 million has gone viral this week for demonstrating his understanding of AI technology, neural networks,…

At some point in your career, or at many points, you might have been asked to help with an IT modernization program, porting applications from older systems, such as mainframes, to newer systems, be they on-premises or in the cloud.

Amazon’s latest and greatest tablet shares some key similarities to Apple’s high-end iPads, but the devil is in the details.

AI use at work is up, touching everything from everyday tasks to hiring and performance reviews. An April survey conducted by MyPerfectResume found that of 1,000 HR professionals, 73% said they use AI to make hiring decisions and 52% said they use AI to inform “restructuring and role planning.”

If you’ve been to the grocery store lately, you’re probably familiar with the phenomenon of shrinkflation — where the price of a bag of chips or a candy bar stays the same, but the product itself gets smaller.

2026 is turning into a big year for Apple hardware news. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company’s first touchscreen laptop is expected to debut “on or around” October 27. So, not a 100-percent solid date for a product announcement, but still a more concrete time frame than we’ve ever had about Apple’s long-awaited touchscreen…

On Thursday, at the Golden Age of American Innovation Summit, President Trump awarded Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, and AMD’s Lisa Su the National Medal of Science, the nation’s top science prize. Dell Technologies’ Michael Dell and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella also receivedthe National Medal of Technology and Innovation.