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Amazon updates Q Business to let companies build public-facing chatbots

Amazon wants companies to build public-facing chatbots using its Q Business assistant. On Wednesday, the company said Q Business, its

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Threads tops 350M monthly users after adding 30M in the quarter

Instagram Threads, Meta’s X competitor, has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during

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WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion users a month

WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion people using it every month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted during the company’s

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From tech pioneers to ‘extremists’: Belarusian founders face exile and statelessness

In 2013, Tatyana Marynich and Anastasiya Khamiankova opened the doors to Imaguru, a startup hub in Minsk, Belarus that would

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Study accuses LM Arena of helping top AI labs game its benchmark

A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced

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Epic Games just scored a win against Apple

Epic Games notched a win in an ongoing legal dispute with Apple. The result could be Fortnite returning to the

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Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device

Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World human verification project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, unveiled Wednesday a

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Tesla’s board reportedly sought a successor while Musk wheeled around Washington

According to a new, brow-raising WSJ report, Tesla’s board quietly began searching for Elon Musk’s potential successor about a month

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Microsoft’s most capable new Phi 4 AI model rivals the performance of far larger systems

Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI’s o3-mini on

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World partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verifying tech to more places

World, the biometric ID company best known for its eyeball-scanning Orb devices, on Wednesday announced several partnerships aimed at driving