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Elon Musk is planning to launch a new payments platform, called XMoney, in beta form to select users in April.In announcing a planned partnership between XMoney and Visa more than a year ago, then X CEO Linda...

When news broke Tuesday morning that Meta bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, it may have left some people scratching their heads. What on earth would Meta — an ad-supported company — want with a social network...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Worried that your latest ask to a cloud-based AI reveals a bit too much about you? Want to know your genetic risk of disease without revealing it to the...

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YouTube has hit some impressive numbers in 2025.According to new estimates from research firm MoffettNathanson— as reported by The Hollywood Reporter— the platform pulled in a staggering $40.4 billion in ad revenue, which is more than Disney, NBC,...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the...

Worried that your latest ask to a cloud-based AI reveals a bit too much about you? Want to know your genetic risk of disease without revealing it to the services that compute the answer?There is a way to do...

You probably can’t tell a real human voice from an AI clone, and you’re not alone in that struggle. But here’s the surprising part. Your brain has already started figuring out the difference anyway.Researchers from Tianjin University and the...

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced Monday it has raised more than $1 billion to develop AI world models.LeCun argues that most human reasoning is grounded in...

A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine and China used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned. The tools, which were intended for Western spies, wound up in the hands of...