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The restaurant industry is trying to figure out whether America has hit peak pizza. From a report: Once the second-most common U.S. restaurant type, pizzerias are now outnumbered by coffee shops and Mexican food eateries, according to industry...

After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited who can generate images with Grok. However, despite the changes, the chatbot is still being used to create “undressing”...

AI research lab Anthropic continues to land sizable enterprise deals. Its latest entails bringing its large language models to a legacy German insurance giant.Anthropic on Friday announced a deal with Munich, Germany-based global insurance conglomerate Allianz to bring “responsible...

In the world of digital fabrication, desktop CNC machines often fall into two frustrating camps: affordable but underpowered, or powerful but prohibitively complex. The Makera Z1 flips the script and carves out a new category of its own.A smart...

Every autumn, as the Northern Hemisphere moves toward winter, Judah Cohen starts to piece together a complex...

Large quantum computers may be able to solve problems impossible for even the best traditional supercomputers – but in...

Laura Cress,Technology reporterandChris Vallance,Senior technology reporterGetty ImagesCampaigners have accused the government of dragging its heels on implementing a law which would make it illegal to create non-consensual sexualised deepfakes.It comes amid a backlash against images created using Elon Musk's...

Investment in consumer tech startups has been in a downturn since 2022, as a turbulent macroeconomic climate and rising inflation have made VCs skittish about consumer spending power. For the past couple of years, most AI investment has focused...

Faisal IslamEconomics editorWhat is going on here is being watched carefully around the world. Professor Sir Peter Knight, Chair of the National Quantum Technology Programmes Strategy Advisory Board, says Willow broke new ground."All the machines are really still at...

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) says its analysts have discovered "criminal imagery" of girls aged between 11 and 13 which "appears to have been created" using Grok.The AI tool is owned by Elon Musk's firm xAI. It can be...