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  • Lawmakers are urging the US government to consider banning several hack-for-hire firms, signaling a growing concern over cybersecurity and potentially illicit digital activities.
  • AI continues its rapid integration into consumer products, with Instacart launching Clementine, an AI grocery shopping assistant, and Meta debuting its Muse AI agent, though consumer trust remains a question.
  • The burgeoning field of AI is facing significant legal and ethical challenges, highlighted by Suno replacing its AI models due to copyright issues, and concerns over hackers stealing Claude tokens and AI's role in potentially propagating harmful content.
  • Significant venture capital continues to flow into AI-driven companies, with Cognition achieving a $48 billion valuation and Mistral raising €3 billion, underscoring the investor confidence in AI's transformative potential.
  • Cutting-edge technological advancements are pushing boundaries, from Besxar's plans for an orbital semiconductor factory to Google DeepMind alumni developing tools for fusion power, indicating a drive towards ambitious, long-term technological solutions.

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  • Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio an hour ago by Emma Roth
    AI, Amazon, News, Streaming, Tech

    Maxton Hall. | Image: Prime Video Amazon's Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor's mouth with "human-dubbed" audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it to "additional titles" in the future. In its announcement, Prime Video says it uses a combination of AI and visual effects technologies to make lip movements match up with translated speech. Meta and YouTube recently launched an AI-powered auto-dubbing feature for creators, while allowing them to turn on a "lip sync" option

  • How to watch Apple’s September 9th launch event 2 hours ago by Stevie Bonifield
    Apple, Apple Event 2026, Apple Rumors, News, Tech

    Apple's September 9th launch event could be one of its biggest in years. It will be Apple's first event since John Ternus took over as CEO on September 1st, stepping in for Tim Cook, and will likely feature the first models in Apple's iPhone 18 lineup. That could include the long-rumored foldable "iPhone Duo," coming just a couple months after Samsung debuted its own passport-style foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold 8. Here's how you can watch the event live, and a few possible highlights to keep an eye out for. How to watch Apple's September launch event Apple's "Surprise and

  • Students who use AI generally score worse at school 2 hours ago by Dominic Preston
    AI, News

    Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don't, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of AI use giving learners a slight boost, especially among students taught to critically assess how well the AI tools perform. The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) takes data from countries around the world every few years. This year's study, based on data collected in 2025, is the first to be carried out since AI use went truly mainstream.

  • Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’ 4 hours ago by Robert Hart
    AI, Anthropic, News, Tech

    A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build "superhuman systems" they cannot control. In a post on X announcing his departure, Jacob Coxon, a researcher who has trained AI systems at Anthropic, said he had quit the company over its lax approach to safety. Coxon, who previously trained systems for OpenAI, accused the two AI companies of "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence

  • Apple’s foldable ‘iPhone Duo’ will reportedly start at $2,000 9 hours ago by Richard Lawler
    Apple, Apple Event 2026, Apple Rumors, Foldable Phones, iPhone, Mobile, News, Tech

    With only a few hours left until the first iPhone launch event since John Ternus took over as the CEO of Apple, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says the name of the company's long-rumored folding phone is the iPhone Duo. The midnight report suggests it will have a price starting at $2,000 for a model with 256GB of storage, or around $3,000 for up to 2TB. Shipping is said to start as soon as October in two colors: white and dark blue. So far, the rumored foldable has been mostly referred to as the iPhone Ultra, while the Duo name would


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