Russia on Thursday confirmed that it had blocked WhatsApp in the country. The Kremlin said citizens can use a state-backed messenging service instead. WhatsApp issued a statement saying Russia had ...

State-backed hackers are using Google's Gemini AI model to support all stages of an attack, from reconnaissance to post-compromise actions. Bad actors from China (APT31, Temp.HEX), Iran (APT42), North ...

EssilorLuxottica reported its Q4 2025 financial results, revealing the company sold over seven million smart glasses last year. The French-Italian eyewear conglomerate has been making smart glasses in ...

The DAMO Academy, Alibaba's research division, unveiled an open-source foundation model called RynnBrain. This model can interact with its environment, understand spatial relationships over time, and ...

THE BIGGEST worry in Silicon Valley is that the artificial-intelligence boom turns out to be a bubble. Yet beneath the surface, another risk looms. Digital advertising, which accounts for a large and ...

Meta boosts capital spending by 73% for AI development The company forecasts higher 2026 expenses due to AI talent hiring Meta's ad platform supports AI investments, faces competition in short-video ...

What if the fragmented world of open AI models could finally speak the same language? Sam Witteveen explores how the newly introduced “Open Responses” is a new and open inference standard. Initiated ...

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Bose released the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for its SoundTouch speakers today, putting a silver lining around the impending end-of-life (EoL) of the expensive home theater ...

In a new interview with The Financial Times, Yann LeCun, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, finally dished on his abrupt exit from Meta in November. From how he tells it, most of it boils down to ...

Meta paid billions to bring billionaire AI prodigy Alexandr Wang on board — but the tech wunderkind now privately believes CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s micromanagement of the company’s AI push is ...

Meta is reportedly developing a new AI model, code-named "Avocado," slated for release in the spring of 2026. Unlike its popular Llama series, which embraced an open-source approach, Avocado is ...